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701 Hudson
“The biggest compliment I have gotten, and the way I really know we accomplished what we set out to do with 701, is that I’ve had multiple people tell me they can’t remember what the building was before it was 701. That’s fantastic. That means it looks like it’s always been there,” says Brent Swift, whose team of artisans and craftspeople built the interiors and systems for the gorgeous new, luxury residential building, 701 Hudson. Lingo Construction handled building the super-structure. Swift’s team and Lingo worked in tandem with Gardner Architects on the project, a pairing that has brought central Oklahoma collaborative brilliance for years.
Jeremy Gardner, principal at GA, echoes Swift’s sentiment. “We never wanted the building to draw attention to itself. That’s one of the biggest challenges in urban infill construction. We wanted the building to have a tight envelope, so we did things like carve out the balconies instead of pushing them out of the structure,” he says.
701 is definitely a thoughtfully-created vertical neighborhood. It’s relatively small, as residential buildings go, with just eleven homes within its walls; the building is like a pocket neighborhood, configured vertically. The interior details are spectacular. Every single surface is custom-created, and every detail is quietly immaculate. We recently toured the building and are pleased to share our tour with you.
“Bringing 701 to life has been a two-year project. It’s allowed me to really, in a way, pay homage to an architect I’ve been really interested in, Robert A.M. Stern. When you look at his buildings, you can almost tell how the spaces within them are being used, which parts are public spaces, which are sleeping spaces. 701 feels like that. With this project there were three elements that were very important from the start. We wanted it to be an all-brick building with Pella windows and it had to be soundproofed,” Swift says.
The structure boasts a Sound Transmission Class (STC) rating of 59, meaning the engineering is such that you cannot hear anyone in the homes above, below or adjacent, thanks to some next-level soundproofing technology. The soundproofing is well beyond common household sound eradication. One more point and it would be capable of silencing factory noise. “You could say that sound-proofing is something of an obsession of mine,” Swift says.
There are two entrances into 701. A common lobby space on the ground floor may only be accessed by residents or guests who have been buzzed in via a video-driven security system. The lobby’s exuberant wall coverings add a warm elegance to a space designed for its purpose: an area to transition between the outside world and home, or a space to welcome and chat with guests.
A true poured-in-place terrazzo floor throughout the entire first floor adds quiet, timeless beauty underfoot. As years pass, the beauty of the terrazzo will evolve and soften, glowing calmly underfoot as long as the building stands. Inside the elevator, Fornasetti wallpaper in “Nuvolette” enlivens without shouting.
The ground floor is also home to the building’s only live/work space, with a street-level dedicated entry door for the work space, which could easily be a retail boutique, salon or office. The living space in this unit is a generous 1,770 square feet. Only the penthouse is larger, at about 2,161.
Throughout the ground-level home, and each of the others are custom-built pecan kitchen islands, bookcases and master vanities. Floors in the master baths are heated via remote control, so you can set a timer to warm the floors right before your feet make contact. Herringbone floors, rendered in white oak, look simultaneously modern and classic in the common areas of each space. The closets are European style, meaning that storage for clothing is built into many of the homes’ walls, throughout the living spaces, rather than essentially dedicating a small room to the task. Very cosmopolitan and very practical.
story: Stacy Johnson | photography: Kennon Bryce
