![]() Selene Oceanfront Residences features over 5,300 square feet of oceanfront dining space at the base of the building, providing an unrivaled oceanfront dining experience. The South Tower floor plan offers four bedrooms, five and a half bathrooms, a family room and a media room, while The East Tower floor plan features three bedrooms, four and a half bathrooms, and a spacious living room. The modern, flow-through penthouse floorplans range from 5,892 square feet to 6,630 square feet of interior and exterior living space. Selene Oceanfront Residences’ penthouse collection offers four unique floor plans with two residences per floor to meet the highest standards of quality and craftsmanship. The award-winning Kobi Karp Architects designed the buildings with interiors by ID & Design International. We have seen a tremendous uptick in market demand and Selene’s Penthouse Collection is the ideal culmination of what the market is demanding in luxurious living.” “With expansive interior and outdoor spaces alongside sweeping oceanfront views, the property’s design elements have been thoughtfully curated to reflect the tropical-modern style Fort Lauderdale Beach is known for. ![]() One renter who lived in a Nolita duplex with a roommate joked to the paper that when family or friends heard it was technically a penthouse, despite its lack of anything resembling luxury and the fact that he shared it, they responded: “Oh.“The penthouse collection at Selene Oceanfront Residences is a unique offering on Fort Lauderdale Beach,” Bob Vail says, president of Kolter Urban, the developer of the towers. The New York Times noted a decade ago that the penthouse apartment had been “taken down a notch” by increasingly creative uses of the term and increasingly norm-y inhabitants. Which is of course why developers have long been trying to stretch the definition, with varying levels of incredulity. “These properties are considered custom works of art one can live in - and an asset class in their own right,” as one broker put it to Brick Underground. Helen Gurley Brown’s penthouse at Beresford was a quadruplex. Condé Nast built one of the first at 1040 Park Avenue, a duplex that had multiple salons and a ballroom. The city’s official building code defines a penthouse as “an enclosed structure on or above the roof of any part of a building, which is designed or used for human occupancy,” which was accurate enough in the days when they were generally used to house servants, but the city’s wealthiest residents soon realized that skyline-level living offered more privacy and better views. ![]() It’s not that these apartments aren’t nice - many have an in-unit washer-dryer and some sort of outdoor space - they’re just not penthouse nice. ![]() (Not even a strategically placed potted plant for staging.)Ī recent Listings Project roundup included no fewer than seven listings that use the word “penthouse,” ranging from a fourth-floor walk-up in Greenwich Village to a five-bedroom listing with four other roommates in Williamsburg. (Amenities include: “four ceiling fans” and proximity to Whole Foods.) A four-story building in Bushwick with an 850-square-foot “ spacious penthouse.” The listing for a “gorgeous Washington Heights penthouse” that advertises private roof access, which is, upon closer inspection, just a stark, gray, unfinished roof. And yet, penthouse creep is everywhere lately: An “airy Harlem penthouse” that is, in fact, just the third floor of a building. What you’re not picturing: The top floor of a low-rise multifamily with an identical layout to every apartment below it. It’s Jennifer Lopez’s four terraces overlooking Madison Square Park Bad Bunny’s private lap pool Brittany Murphy in Uptown Girls with all that cash in her freezer. Photo-Illustration: Curbed Photos: GettyĬlose your eyes and picture a penthouse: Expansive floor plan, roof deck, maybe even a private elevator.
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