Three New Renderings, Name for Chetrit Hotel, Foundation Poured
We found three previously unpublished renderings of the huge Chetrit hotel-apartment-retail complex going up at 500 Metropolitan. They reveal the complex has a name: The M500. Sounds like something out of a Bond film. Should go well with the smoldering interior renderings interior designers Raad Studio released earlier this year. The new renderings are at least the fourth…
We found three previously unpublished renderings of the huge Chetrit hotel-apartment-retail complex going up at 500 Metropolitan. They reveal the complex has a name: The M500. Sounds like something out of a Bond film. Should go well with the smoldering interior renderings interior designers Raad Studio released earlier this year.
The new renderings are at least the fourth set from as many architects. Kutnicki Bernstein has stuck with the basic concept — a wedge-shaped complex — and given it more definition. The complex wraps around existing properties on the block. It has entrances, retail and signage next door to Kellogg’s Diner on Union, along Metropolitan Avenue, and also on Rodney, which faces the BQE. The complex will be visible from the highway.
The interplay of the facade and windows creates striped and checkerboard patterns. A cutaway into the wedge also changes texture.
Meanwhile, at the construction site itself, where one of the new renderings has been posted, the foundation has been poured. This is one of several ambitious projects under way in Williamsburg right now. (Others include the William Vale Hotel, the Yotel, and the block-long spec office building at 19 Kent Avenue.)
What do you think of the design in the renderings?
500 Metropolitan Avenue Coverage [Brownstoner] GMAP
502 Metropolitan Avenue Coverage [Brownstoner]
Renderings by Kutnicki Bernstein
It’s a nice looking building, it will be a little out of place with the other stuff in the area, but who knows the landscape of wburg is changing so fast.
The name would sound better as ‘five hundred m’ instead of ‘m five hundred’, but it looks better as m500 instead of 500m. 500m sounds like a very fast car, but looks like a footrace. m500 sounds slow (there’s a reason bmw doesn’t have the 2 extra 00’s) but looks crisp. I’m willing to bet this will get it’s own nickname despite what the owners name it.
Looks like a fugly rip-off of the BK Heights Library design.
And half of the rooms will have a view of the traffic jams on the lovely BQE.