We thought it was time to take a closer look at Booth Hansen‘s revamped design for 5440 Sheridan. Edgewater residents complained that the original design caused the tower to “canyonize” the corner of Sheridan Road and Catalpa Avenue, so does the new design address that?
Booth Hansen pushed the building back a further 30 feet from Sheridan Road and attached a “glass box” to a section of the facade between floors five through ten. The box, which juts out from the facade, is divided into individual “porches.” The dark squares that are visible in the rendering are windows and the white vertical panels are glass partitions.
“Each unit will have a terrace that has a window and a glass enclosure,” says Cary Kerbel, a partner in The Bluewater Companies, which is developing the project.
The glass enclosures will have alternating panels of translucent and textured glass, adding visual interest to the facade, Kerbel says.
Booth Hansen went a step further and cut an outdoor terrace into the eleventh floor, which residents of that floor will have exclusive access to. The floors above the terrace are also set back.
The high-rise units begin on the fourth floor of the tower. The first four floors of the tower are seamlessly connected to an adjacent four-story mid-rise building and the tower rises out of the north end of that four-story building. In the northeast corner of the ground floor of the tower, the developer is selling five two-story “beach homes.”
Booth Hansen has designed a parking garage at the core of the four-story mid-rise and has wrapped three townhomes around the east side of the mid-rise, facing Sheridan Road. “The townhomes obscure the parking garage, giving life to the street,” Kerbel says.