What’s Happening: The embattled complex of twisting condo towers at the foot of Manhattan’s High Line may have endured an onslaught of lawsuits, a foreclosure, and a rebranding, but still manages to make a polished entry into a neighborhood that’s become best known for its flashy architecture.

The Download: It hasn’t been the smoothest of sailing for One High Line, the pair of seemingly squirming residential towers formerly known as The Xi and designed by Bjarke Ingels Group at the foot of the Manhattan park that inspires its name. A spate of investor lawsuits levied against its developer, former HFZ Capital Group executive Nir Meir, and a foreclosure cast a pall of doubt over the $2 billion project’s viability, halting progress for two years. The development was acquired by Witkoff Group and Access Industries and soon rechristened as One High Line. Construction resumed, sales relaunched, and a $52 million penthouse leased.

Now, nearly nine years after first breaking ground, the long-delayed project is ready for its close-up. Its two travertine towers—one 36 stories, another 26—gradually twist away from one another to maximize skyline views for its 241 units. Ingels, who gravitates toward the twist, intended the facade’s punched windows as a not-so-subtle homage to the area’s industrial heyday and, as he says, a “sculptural manifestation of its striking urban environment.” No exaggeration there—One High Line is a polished addition to a flashy corridor that’s oft-maligned for starchitectural showmanship.

Still, One High Line offers a covetable address—and even more covetable amenities designed by Gabellini Sheppard and Gilles & Boissier—for its residents. Once moved in, they can access the building via a private porte-cochère entrance, relax at a sprawling double-height bridge lounge, nosh in a dining room with catering kitchen, and do laps in the 75-foot indoor swimming pool. They’ll also be in close quarters to the forthcoming Faena Hotel, slated to open in the east tower next year, where they can enjoy free one-year passes to the private members club and spa Faena Rose. A restaurant helmed by celebrity chef Francis Mallmann of Netflix’s Chef’s Table will offer even more thrills.

In Their Own Words: “The sculptural form of One High Line is a direct response to the site’s historic industrial heritage and contemporary architecture,” Ingels said in a statement, noting how the building is “shaped by the forces around it, to the east and west, at the High Line and the skyline.”

Surface Says: Ingels’ poetic design platitudes are perfectly nice, but we’re just happy for the stakeholders who are surely relieved this potential white elephant of a project is finally making money.

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Tucked just off The Music City’s busy Gallatin Pike highway, the newly opened cocktail bar Coral Club recreates the ambiance of a Mediterranean beach club in East Nashville. Under the supervision of bar manager and Attaboy alumnus Matthew Izaguirre, guests can look forward to on-theme refreshments like a rosé paloma or a mezcal and passionfruit “Sunliner” to cut through the brutal Tennessee heat. Studio Yuda’s serene stone and plaster interiors, with their driftwood eucalyptus pole ceilings, might mentally evoke the Northern hemisphere’s farthest reaches, but the distinctly Southern hospitality reminds how there’s truly no place like home.

Inspired by his puppet-maker grandmothers who never had a chance to show their work, the freewheeling self-taught painter envisions carefree, rambunctious beasts from traditional Hungarian folklore and finger-paints them with panache on the floor of his London studio.

Here, we ask an artist to frame the details behind one of their latest works.

Bio: Szabolcs Bozó, 31, London.

Title of work: Cold, Cold Feeling (Hideg Érzés), 2024.

Where to see it: Almine Rech (361 Broadway, New York) until August 2.

Three words to describe it: Cold, cold feeling.

What was on your mind at the time: This work was made after quite a destructive process. I had destroyed several works prior to this and when I began painting this work I finally felt the positive feeling that this was the direction the show needed to go in.

Last month, Loewe’s creative director Jonathan Anderson hosted a weekend getaway for friends of the Spanish label to take in Magdalene Odundo’s sweeping new exhibition at the Norfolk, England, estate of Houghton Hall. The bucolic weekend kicked off with meandering walks through the grounds and tea in the walled garden, culminating in a seated dinner in the grand house’s picture gallery. The weekend’s biggest highlight was the first look at Odundo’s newest commission, which the ceramicist created while in residence at the Wedgwood factory in Stoke-on-Trent.

When was it? June 28.

Where was it? Houghton Hall, Norfolk, England.

Who was there? Josh O’Connor, Jeff Goldblum, Archie Madekwe, Russell Tovey, Dan Levy, Lesley Manville, Rachel Jones, Ashley Hicks, and more.

The celebrated Dutch chef brings 30 years of hands-on culinary experience—formerly at three Michelin-starred Oud Sluis and more recently helming his eponymous restaurant group—to no fewer than eight Serax collaborations. In the curves and scalloped edges of his ceramic Inku table settings, these editors find an ode to shells, blossoms, and “abstract structures of nature.” Eagle-eyed diners will even recognize the collection from Le Pristine, his Antwerp brasserie. From $17.

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Surface Says: It’s no easy task to craft a commemorative heirloom to mark a feat of artistic excellence, but Society Awards has distinguished itself as the go-to for some of today’s most discerning names.

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