Straight from New York… Construction has begun in Tribeca on Five Franklin Place by Dutch architect Ben van Berkel of UNStudio.

Van Berkel says, “The apartments at Five Franklin Place do not follow a strong grid. They are organically designed in how the stairs swoop upward, how the balcony loops you back indoors. There’s an idea of looping around the apartments, without many dead ends, so that all of the space really accommodates life and the flow of life.”