Pavarini McGovern recently completed the construction of a new 156,000-SF, 13-story luxury residential condominium building with a unique curtain wall façade at 40 Mercer Street in Manhattan. Mercer 40 Residences houses 40 units with retail at-grade and below-grade parking. Atelier Jean Nouvel, with SLCE Architects as the architect-of-record, designed the structure.

The curtain wall system is one of the first of its kind in New York City. According to its promotional website - www.40mercersoho.com - Mercer 40 Residences’s design, “marks the most cutting-edge use of glass in a residential building in the United States to date, with color and transparent, filtered and clear glass, and the largest (panes)…ever used on a residential project. An acoustical engineer consultant helped design the insulated windows, which muffle street sounds.”

The windows open down or slide across by the use of a motorized mechanical system. Each assembly unit weighs 1,100 pounds, which required an augmented structure to carry the additional load.

The development team for this project is a partnership of Hines, Whitehall Group, EMJ Management and Hotels AB.