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Polshek Partnership Architects
Roman and Williams
Shawn Hausman

André Balazs’ first ground-up hotel endeavour sits in New York’s bustling Meatpacking District, which, over the past ten years, has been transformed from a butcher’s haven into one of New York’s hottest areas to eat, drink and dance. The Standard, High Line is its new apex. Designed by Todd Schliemann of Polshek Partnership Architects with décor by Hollywood set designer Shawn Hausman and the New York-based design firm, Roman and Williams, the hotel is a vamped up homage to such New York style classics as the Lever House and the main United Nations building. The property, which actually incorporates a century’s worth of architectural history into one structure, is a delicate colossus straddling the High Line, a brand new elevated park, which runs up Manhattan’s West Side. The bulk of it is propelled seventeen metre above street level and nine above the trackbed of the High Line, allowing room for its redbud and birch trees to bloom to their fullest capacity in the spring.

Balazs describes the interiors as an upward journey through modernity. The street level floor is the earliest, relating to the early twentieth century era in which the High Line was constructed. The hotel floors range between mid-century influences, specifically from a hotel that Eero Saarinen, Mies van der Rohe and Arne Jacobsen collaborated on in the 1950’s in Stockholm. The top floor, a double height, glass enclosed supper club and lounge, nod towards one of Saarinen’s protégés, Warren Platner.

Each of the hotel’s 337 guestrooms and suites are endowed with breathtaking views of the Hudson River and the gorgeous cityscape that surrounds the elegant monolith. Some guests are lucky enough to enjoy these views from their bathtubs that are comfortably situated in some room’s centres. The rooms range in size and amenities beginning with The Standard Queen and rising towards the suites, the largest of which is the Empire Suite. At ground level, guests and visitors alike will find the hotel’s celebrated bar, The Living Room, as well as the Biergarten. The Standard Grill, the hotel’s acclaimed restaurant, which is also at street level, is an aesthetic homage to the traditional New York bar and grill.