Rosario Apartments

[Chadwick Bosse]

The building is nestled in the upper part of Rua do Rosrio, from which it takes its name. The typical Porto building from the 19th century, was originally a whole house that has become a collection of houses over time. The 3-storey building was renovated, transformed, and divided into 5 apartments in 2016 by Margarida Leito and Lus Sobral, the duo from the collective depA architects, also the owner of the building. The project aimed to preserve the existing, and reuse most of the parts found on site. The main facade on the street side has been restored and reconstructed with original yellow tiles. The newly constructed interior facade is clad in corrugated steel, contrasting with the lower floors of the townhouse. One of the apartments houses a family who has lived in the building for 63 years. The top floor apartment is lived in by the architect couple. There are therefore three apartments available for rent, served by a beautiful central wooden staircase. The first is located on the 1st floor, facing Rosrio Street. It includes a living room, a kitchenette, an alcove with a double bed, and a bathroom with a shower. The second, also located on the 1st floor, overlooks the interior courtyard. It includes a living room, a kitchen, a winter garden, an alcove with a double bed, a shower, and a separate toilet. The third is located on the 2nd floor, facing Rosrio Street. It includes a living room, a kitchen, a mezzanine with a double bed accessible by a ladder, and a bathroom with a shower. The apartments feature high ceilings with exposed beams, shuttered windows, arched door frames, plaster walls, cedar floors, combined with bespoke furniture designed specifically for the house by the collective. Part of the floors is covered with yellow tiles with geometric patterns reminiscent of the facade.

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Born in Montelepre, Italy in 1890, Candela immigrated to New York in 1906.[4][5] He returned to Italy after his arrival to study there and returned to the US in 1909.[citation needed] His father was Michele Candela, a plasterer, and his mother was Josephine Pizzurro. He gained admission to the Columbia University School of Architecture and graduated in 1915.[6] Keenly aware of his talent, he went so far as to erect a velvet rope around his drafting table to prevent other students from copying his designs.[7]

After graduation, Candela worked briefly as a draftsman for the Palermo-born Italian-American architect, Gaetan Ajello.[6] After another brief stint with the firm of Frederick Sterner, Candela set up his own practice in 1920. His first major commission was for an apartment house at West 92nd Street and Broadway.[citation needed] Shortly thereafter, he received his first commission for an East Side apartment at 1105 Park Avenue.[8] During the next five years, Candela designed a number of residential buildings on the Upper West Side, primarily on West End Avenue and Riverside Drive.[8] During this period, the West side was undergoing an intense transformation from an area of primarily single-family homes to one characterized by the apartment buildings.

Candela's greatest work would occur during the latter half of the 1920s, when he designed numerous apartment buildings on the Upper East Side, primarily on Fifth Avenue and Park Avenue, as well as at Sutton Place and other locations. In 1927 and 1928, Candela designed 19 apartment buildings, including 960 Fifth Avenue (at East 77th Street) and 720 Park Avenue (at East 70th Street).[9] He had more commissions in 1929, but the housing boom had begun to slow prior to the stock market crash in October. Of 27 designs that year, only 12 were completed. These included 740, 770, 778 and 834 and 1040 Fifth Avenue.[9]

The exteriors of his buildings tended to be understated, particularly in view of some of the more exuberant styles popular during the period.[citation needed] However, he was considered a master of design when it came to the interiors. Many apartments were constructed as duplex residences with grand entry foyers; curved, freestanding stairways; and dramatic public rooms. Some of the designs, including that of the John D. Rockefeller Jr. triplex at 740 Park Avenue, were palatial by even the considerable standards of the day. That triplex, of more than 20,000 square feet (1,900 m2), "had, depending on who was counting, anywhere from 23 to 37 rooms, the discrepancy caused by such questions as whether one included hallways and foyers the size of ballrooms, servants quarters, and the fourteen bathrooms".[7]

During the Great Depression, work fell off dramatically and Candela received only sporadic commissions. While the quantity declined considerably, the quality of his designs rarely suffered. During this time, he expressed his interest in codes and ciphers, publishing two books on the topic.[9] He continued his practice up until his death in 1953. Chesley Bonestell, first an architect, and later a noted science fiction illustrator, painted two pictures for him, one of his home and one of his son.[citation needed]

Now, four of her family members and a family friend are in line to buy dirt-cheap apartments in the newly renovated building under a city program that converts derelict housing into affordable co-ops. Taxpayers subsidized the renovation.

Not only are members of the Dawson family mounting a legal land grab of five pads, they have bullied and connived their way into controlling a third of the 14-unit building over the past two decades, residents said.

The six-story structure was built in 1899 and, with its elevator, was considered luxury housing at the time. By 1984, when Wilson arrived, 30 feral cats occupied apartments and the first two floors were filled with garbage.

Isabel Dawson continued to come and go, and lived for a time in the Dominican Republic. In 2010, she demanded to live in a first-floor apartment she once occupied that had been taken over by someone else.

In 2013, Isabel took a jackhammer to the concrete floor to open up access to the basement. She installed a spiral staircase and created a duplex apartment, all without city permits and approvals, residents said.

The building has been owned since 2002 by the nonprofit Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, known as UHAB. The city sold UHAB the property, along with 10 others, for $1 each. The non-profit was supposed to help turn the buildings into co-ops so the squatters could take legal ownership of the properties.

But the co-op conversion on East 13th Street has dragged on for more than a decade and the renovation did not begin until 2015. The city kicked in $1.78 million for the work there and at another building which together cost $12 million to renovate.

Rosario Candela (1890-1953) is the most famous architect of luxury apartment buildings in New York City, most of which were erected on Fifth and Park avenues before World War II. These buildings reek with good taste, better proportions, lavish expanses of limestone on the exterior and considerable square footage inside the apartments. Informal, open kitchens were not his thing. Most of his widely coveted buildings appear understated from the outside. Apartment layouts generally are grand and formal, especially in his Top 10 pre-World War II New York City apartment buildings with their foyers, galleries and fireplaces.

This very sumptuous, 16-story apartment building was designed by Rosario Candela and is widely considered one of his greatest luxury apartment designs. Erected by Anthony Campagna in 1931, it is directly across from the entrance to the Central Park Zoo. It has 24 very large apartments occupied by the heads and/or heirs of many famous American companies.

One of the city's most prestigious addresses, this building is noted for its very grand apartments, its fabulous Central Park views, its very lavish restaurant and its large marquee over its conventional canvas canopy.

Built on the former site of Presbyterian Hospital, this 34-unit apartment building was designed by Candela and Cross & Cross, who also teamed up on the design of One Sutton Place South. This building and 740 Park Avenue reportedly brought the "avenue's tradition for luxurious high-rise domesticity to a brilliant crescendo on the eve of the 1929 stock market crash."

This large, limestone-clad building has 36 apartments, polished pink granite columns at its entrance and cast-iron balconies with peacock decorations. Obviously luxurious, it is widely considered one of the city's supreme addresses.

Completed in 1926, this is one of the city's very few free-standing apartment buildings of real luxury that includes a triple-arch driveway, a see-through lobby, a garden facing the East River and very grand apartments.

This 14-story building was erected in 1930 and only has 26 apartments and is distinguished by its very prominent gargoyles and handsome watertanks that make it the mosst attractive apartment building on Lexington Avenue.

Designed by Candela and Mott B. Schmidt, this Art Deco-style, limestone-clad apartment building replaced the very impressive "Tiffany" townhouse and its distinguished by its base's soft and very graceful curves.

Although not as finely detailed as some of Fifth Avenue's other very prestigious buildings, it is close to very fashionable boutiques on Madison Avenue and a bit removed from major tourist attractions such as the Central Park Zoo and it boasts splendid apartments.

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