Frosbrand Plaza

Frosbrand Plaza Profile

Frosbrand Plaza is located in Manhattan, in the center of the Flatiron District. The building itself is sixty floors high, with three levels of underground parking and service/maintenance space.

It is divided into three "towers," with a large, circular central atrium that is open to a glassed-in "light well" that filters natural light down into the majority of the building. The very top of the atrium is a glassed-in dome, with a complex series of nearly entirely self-sustaining "oxygen farm" hydroponics system. The building's central air circulation system filters through here, taking advantage of the fresh oxygen-rich environment and making it available throughout the building. The atrium-top is scattered with benches, and is a popular stop for lunch breaks by building employees.

The bottom two floors are dedicated retail and service industry space, including an American fusion cuisine restauruant. The thirty-three floors above those are allocated to high-end business offices. Frosbrand Industries North America occupies the next twenty floors, and the very top five floors are owned by Teodor Frosbrand, the heir apparent of the Frosbrand financial empire.

Rooftop

Frosbrand Plaza: Rooftop

The two towertops surrounding the atrium are dedicated public space, primarily set up for the oxygen farm atrium space and a pair of helipads, with access to the various banks of elevators. The third tower is part of the space owned by Teodor Frosbrand.

Lounge Space

Accessed by a singular hallway from the rest of the rooftop, Teodor's rooftop lounge space features a large panoramic glass wall facing the rest of Manhattan, but is constructed to blank out the comings and goings of the rest of the rooftop.

• Pub Lounge: Decorated as an old-fashioned British pub, complete with dart board and dark wood pub tables, this lounge area sits some five feet above the Pool Lounge area, separated by the elevated floor and polished wooden railing. It includes a couple of unisex bathrooms, and a kitchen and back-of-house area fully capable of turning out informal meals. It also includes a full bar in the back-of-house.
• Observatory: Off the pub lounge is a large observatory. In the center of the room is a large professional telescope, set up to an electronics system that displays the instrument's views onto plasma screens across the back wall of the observatory. Along the windowed wall are set a number of large, swivel settees that can shift to view the skyline outside or the sky displays on the back wall.

Pool Lounge

A broad, open white marbled expanse of floor dominated by a large salt water pool that abuts the glass wall looking out over Manhattan.

• Hot Tub & Salt Pool: A hot tub that is slightly higher in the floor than the pool below it constantly gurgles a trickle of warm water into the pool via a "water fall" trickle down the wall that separates the pool and tub. The result is that the salt pool is usually fairly warm, and reaches about eight feet in depth.
• Changing Rooms: Along the far wall across from the pool is a pair of doors that lead into very simple wood paneled changing rooms. There are small shower stalls within as well, and a set of doors that lead to the outdoor pool area.

Outdoor Pool Area

The outdoor pool area is constructed to maximize the amount of sky it has available to it, while still blocking off the intrusive sight of the public portions of the rooftop, and frame the city skyline well.

• Outdoor Showers: Simple set of showers for washing off cholorine after a swim, these showers are built as miniature waterfalls along the back wall, with round, smooth stone pebbled floors.
• Loggia: Elevated some five feet above the rooftop proper, this loggia is based on old Italian loggia designs, but using the hard geographical lines that dominate the rest of Teodor's property here. Plants are hung from the pillars most seasons of the year, and torchieres hang from the arches at night. This gallery provides an excellent view of the city, making an excellent use of glass retaining walls to safely bound the building's open edges without sacrificing the view. Various small collections of furnishings are scattered along the loggia, usually built around outdoor fire-tables, and backed by pedestals with statuary or potted plants to create small intimate pockets.
• Olympic Pool: A full 50 meter Olympic pool that is a continual ten feet in depth, the pool is dominated by two features at either end: its sunning fountain and a hot tub lanai.
  • Sunning Fountain: The sunning fountain is a cross-shaped construction of marble that spans the top of the pool, with "tunnels" cut into two of the arms that allow swimmers passage. The "pockets" formed by the arms are only four feet deep, and include ladders. The fountain constantly trickles a spray of warm water down the geometric angles of the stepped fountain, and its surface is perfect for sunbathers. It also includes an arm that juts out into the pool itself for diving.
  • Hot Tub Lanai: Raised some eight feet above the pool's surface is a round wall-less, roofed construction supported by round pillars. Two gentle staircases rise to a shaded lounge area decorated with furnishings and plantlife, and then ascend another step into a large, four-foot-deep hot tub. Hot water constantly overflows the edge of the tub, rushing down a small stepped descent to fall as a waterfall down to the pool's surface below.
• Outdoor Kitchen: A full outdoor kitchen - including a massive fifteen-foot wide grill flanked by a smoker on one side and a full oven-and-range on the other - is set on a platform some five feet above the pool level (flush with the loggia across the rooftop). It has room for plentiful seating, as well, and is often the center of parties during the warm summer months.
• Sauna & Steam Room: Constructed with the same smooth-stoned pebbled floors as the outdoor showers, the sauna and steam room are constructed in traditional Swedish style, with natural woods, albeit on a larger scale.
• Poolside Bar & Lounge: Just off the loggia is a large bar space, with not only a bar that opens out onto the outdoor portion of the roof, but also an indoor bar space that opens onto a glass-walled lounge that overlooks the city vista. Though the bar is often used informally at Teodor's parties, it's also been the site of several fundraisers since it was built.

Sixtieth Floor

Frosbrand Plaza: Sixtieth Floor

The sixtieth floor is Teodor's personal domicile, with a positively extravagant amount of living and personal entertaining space. The atrium area is most of his personal living and working space, with the first tower acting as the center for his household's dining and provisional needs. Tower two acts as space for his personal guests, such as friends and family (compared to the guest suites on the xxx floor, which tend to be for acquaintances and business associates, or associates of his father's he's been forced to put up).

Atrium

Most of the rooms in the atrium are decorated in the white and silver style that Teodor's decorator favored for the interior design of this portion of the floor.

• Elevators: There are several elevators scattered throughout the atrium. The main bank of three elevators doesn't even stop on this floor. In order to gain access to the floor, a guest has to be admitted via the security protocols used in Teodor's home: someone entering the elevator and pressing the button for any of Teodor's floors sends a message to the security system (usually monitored by the building security, who check to see if the guest is expected and if not, the request is routed to the butler, Ludwig Kramer or Teodor's assistant Helena Aeldenstodt) which gives them a snapshot of the elevator interior, immediate telephone access to the speaker in that elevator and the option to either give the go-ahead to the elevator to bring them to the floor or to summon security to deal with the issue. Teodor can opt-in on the elevator security if he chooses.
• Storage Foyer: The set of elevators that lead to this foyer are considered "behind the house" function, usually used by maintenance, security, domestics and the like. This foyer is also where Teodor's luggage is stored when he is at home, or where it is staged if he is preparing to depart.
• Storage: Large industrial shelves line these walls, with large crates of valuables and furnishings in the center of the space. This room serves as general household storage, and only Ludwig and Helena have keys.
• Morning Room: A wide open floor plan, with a central dining table, meal buffet against one wall. The curving glass wall gives a view of the Manhattan skyline, and a large screen above the buffet often displays entertainment or news.
• Personal Library: Decorated with shelving that displays none of the stodgy literature that "should" go in a library, and plenty of the strange books that form the corpus of Teodor's eclectic taste in reading, the library also features a large touch screen table top with easy access to a variety of e-media and websites.
• Office & Conference Room: Probably the least used areas of Teodor's personal space, the office and conference room are done in identical decor, with glass table tops and chrome finishes. A salt water fish tank separates the two rooms. Helena is far likelier to be found in the office or meeting with persons of importance in the conference room than Teodor is.
• Sitting Room: A long, curved social space decorated in the whites and silvers of the atrium's interior design.

• Master Suite: A huge bedroom space, with a central king-sized bed on a platform, plus a full suite of electronic entertainments.
• Dressing & Wardrobe: A dressing chamber with different walk-in wardrobe rooms, each for a different atmosphere (casual, professional, elegant social, sports, etc) up against the back wall and a vanity space that looked out over the cityscape. The room also includes a valet's station for quick clothing repair and preparation.
• Master Bath: The most noticeable feature in this room is a rough stone wall. On one side of it, toward the center of the room, it forms one wall of the otherwise glass-walled shower, with a cascade of water pouring over its edge as a waterfall. On the other side, the stone wall serves as the backdrop for a recessed bath that abuts the glass wall. A pair of toilets, ample sink space and a host of other amenities (all electronically controlled) finish off this room.
• Kitchen: A well-appointed personal kitchen set up with plenty of ingredients for snacking. Though Teodor doesn't really cook, this kitchen is set up for simple food preparation. Most of the time, though, it is stocked with already-prepared foods and the like.
• Garden Room: A room decorated with well-maintained foliage, the garden room's main feature is a small plunge pool, which is set into the floor and abuts the glass wall of the room.
• Cocktail Lounge: A beverage station with a king's ransom in alcohols lines one wall, and a saltwater aquarium separates this lounge from the office. There is a clear glass bar with stools along the curving glass outer wall, and a few scattered armchairs and small side tables in the middle of the lounge.

Tower One (Dining)

• Formal Dining Room: Massive banquet space, with an elevated platform on which rests a long formal dining table.
• Wine Room & Vault: Comfortable lounge area intended for sampling of wine, with an environmental controlled wine vault attached.
• Butler's Pantry: "Staging Area" from which all service happens. Includes space for storage and upkeep of fine dining ware.
• Kitchen: Massive state-of-the-art industrial kitchen, with accompanying bakery and pantry.

Tower Two (Guests)

Guest Suite

• Beauty Salon: A typically-unstaffed full service beauty salon space, allowing room for professional stylists to work their magic for public appearances.
• Sunroom: A massive room with windows overlooking the city and glass walls looking out onto the halls outside. The sunroom is decorated with an indoor garden style, including extensive water features. Features a central beverage center, and multiple clusters of comfortable seating.
• Kitchen: A large service kitchen that normally goes unstaffed unless there are guests in residence.
• Guest Suite: Two large bedrooms in each suite, along with luxurious en suites, living room-style central rooms with full bars and beverage centers.
• Lounge: A pub-style lounge space, with full bars, table seating and a side room that is glassed in with fine views of the city below.

Tower Three (Amenities)

• Sunroom: A massive room with windows overlooking the city and glass walls looking out onto the halls outside. The sunroom is decorated with an indoor garden style, including extensive water features. Features a central beverage center, and multiple clusters of comfortable seating.
• Salle: Finely appointed fencing salle, with white marble floors, a wall of weaponry and armor stands.
• Library: A room full of tall shelves with expensive books. The area by the outer windows is partitioned off from the rest of the room (to protect the books from sunlight), with lounge space for reading.
• Kitchen: Massive state-of-the-art industrial kitchen, with accompanying bakery and pantry.
• Home Theater: An interior state-of-the-art home theater, with individual sound-and-rumble capable seats, projection screen and even a built-in snack bar at the back of the room.
• Yoga Studio: Space for meditation and yoga, complete with programmed aromatherapy, color therapy and sound therapy systems.
• Changing Room: Basic clothing change and shower facilities.
• Plunge Pool: A small cold pool and therapeutic jacuzzi space.
• Sauna: A wood-paneled sauna, done in a traditionally Scandinavian theme, but with state-of-the-art electronics.
• Massage: Simple space for massages, with a pair of tables that can be cordoned off from one another.
• Personal Gym: A large open gym, with weight training and cardio machines, climbing wall, and other functionality.

Fifty-Ninth Floor

Frosbrand Plaza: Fifty-Ninth Floor

Large Suites

Small Suites

Atrium

The atrium of the fifty-ninth floor is set aside for the use of important guests. It contains the personal suites of Teodor's father, Reinhardt Frosbrand, as well as a selection of grand suites.

• Reinhardt's Suites: Rather than risk his father impinging on his personal space when he is in New York, Teodor arranged for a fine portion of the atrium to be set aside for the CEO's use. It is very spacious, consisting of a large bedroom and bath combo, with two smaller guest rooms for the use of his father's inevitable assistants and entourage, a large dining room, an entertaining lounge with the finest wet bar money can buy, and an office to work out of.
• Grand Suites: The grand suites are each custom designed and decorated. Each is an opulent three-bedroom suite, with kitchen, dining, two baths and living room/entertaining space. They are luxuriously appointed, and when someone takes up residence in them, domestics are available to provide for the care of those guests.
• Conference Room: A large room with plenty of seating at a large central table and fine teleconferencing technology, as well as a bar and beverage station along one wall, and seating away from the table for interns, assistants and assorted hangers-on.

The Towers

The first and second towers are set up with spacious suites, each of which is basically a large apartment. The furthest tower is generally for the use of less-important guests, usually the assorted hangers-on of guests, such as assistants, secretaries, interns and domestics.

• Large Suites: These apartments come with a pair of large bedrooms of equal size, a pair of baths, a kitchen and dining space, a living room area as well as a small office.
• Beauty Salon: A dedicated beautification space for guests who are in town for public social affairs. If necessary, the staff can arrange for stylists to be brought in for such events, though most such guests have their own preferred people that they make the arrangements for.
• Banquet Hall: A large dining area with small prep kitchens and large warmers for banquets and dinners. These spaces are used by guests for hosting large dinners where they will either have many guests, or where many guests of the floor will be attending.
• Lounge: At the far end of the tower is a modest-sized bar, with a glassed-in room off of the main bar offering lounge seating and excellent views of the Manhattan skyline.
• Small Suites: The small suites are single bedroom affairs, with baths, living space, combined kitchen and dining areas and ample office space.
• Sunroom: A space for all guests to sit, relax and enjoy the skyline, featuring a central waterfall and reflecting pool, beverage stations and bars along the walls and similar amenities.
• Pub: Designed to resemble an English-style pub - complete with dartboards and snooker tables - this space is opened and staffed when there are several parties of guests in residence, providing a social space for mingling, as well as a place to get a quick pub-style meal.

Fifty-Eighth Floor

Frosbrand Plaza, Fifth-Eighth Floor

In general, this floor tends to remain mostly abandoned, cleaned well once every two weeks and otherwise kept in readiness. It is only really employed when there are guests or other events planned with the intention of using the space herein. Teodor's father tends to throw big functions in the Ballroom once or twice a year, and he occasionally lends it to other uses as well. Anytime people are expected to employ these spaces, they are staffed and provisioned for such.

The Atrium

• Ballroom: x
• Smoker's Lounge: x
• Pub: x

Tower One

• Wine Room: x
• Reading Library: x
• Music Room: x
• Admin Offices: x
• Art Gallery: x
• Curator's Office: x

Tower Two

• Karaoke Pub: x
• Game Arcade: x
• Snack Bar: x
• Personal Theaters: x
• Technician Office: x

Tower Three

• Oasis Sunroom: x
• Medical Infirmary: x
• Gym: x
• Dance & Yoga Studio: x
• Sauna & Masseuse: x
• Salle: x
• Dojo: x
• Immersion Room: x
• Sensory Deprivation Room: x
• Locker Rooms: x
• Juice Bar: x

• Entertainment Floor. This has a wide expanse of social and entertainment space, including a personal theater, gym, social areas, a small ballroom, a grand dining room and similar spaces.
• A game room that might hold a pool table, arcade games and even a karaoke stage.
• A high-ceilinged music room for the grand piano and other musical enjoyment.
• indoor shooting ranges
• ballrooms
• In spite of ubiquitous flat screens, builders, architects and real estate professionals tell us home theaters, still very much in demand, have become a luxury mainstay. The word game room may conjure up flashbacks to rec rooms of the 1960s, but there is nothing dated about the video and arcade games found in these spaces today, unless of course it’s a classic such as billiards, which has always found a place in luxury homes. Homeowners today are asking for full-blown pubs, complete with darts and a full poker table.
• High on some wish lists, particularly in cold climes, is an indoor sport court. And even with a couple of feet of snow on the course, golf addicts can still get their fix and hone their game with virtual golf. Plus, how else can one get the opportunity to play a number of legendary courses, all in the same day?
• Can anything be as nurturing as a library? As beautiful as they are utilitarian, libraries are as much a place to strategize, plan and recharge as they are a home for books. Lately, almost every upscale home seems to have a library, even if it’s just a cozy spot for cognac or port at the end of the day.
• One of the most expensive homes sold in 2010 featured a swan pond. While a swan pond might be the ultimate, nothing is making a bigger splash outside than water features. Koi ponds, fountains and waterfalls enliven sight and sound, adding sparkle and a dimension to landscapes that few other amenities can deliver. In the last 10 years, pools have gone from being eyesores to eye candy, blending artfully with the landscape, often valued more as a design feature than a place to play. On everybody’s wish list are cocktail pools — small pools that look pretty and are the ideal backdrop for drinks.
• Nothing symbolized glamour more than ballrooms. Ballrooms are rare today, but that doesn’t mean the penchant for glamour and grand entertaining is passé. Living rooms, grand salons and conservatories still host large-scale events that spill out to terraces and patios. Formal dining rooms, spacious enough to seat 20 or more, are another must-have, especially as the price of the home increases. Wine cellars continue to be an important feature of upscale homes, not only to display wines and sip vintages, but to also ensure top-notch libations. A catering kitchen, or at the very least a working pantry, is a must to facilitate large events.

Fifty-Seventh Floor

• Domestics Floor. This floor has a lot of the "behind the scenes" spaces for his home, including pantries, domestic living spaces and storage areas.
• A large laundry and project room may have multiple washers and dryers, a steam closet, and cabinets for project storage. It should also have space for a large, multi-purpose table.
• professional laundries

Fifty-Sixth Floor

• Communications & Media Room
• Uniform Gallery
• Infirmary
• Combat Simulator Room
• Gym
• Research Library
• Conference Room
• Kitchen & Dining
• Laboratory
• Workshop
• Buffer Foyers
• Security Room

Amenities

• The feature most in-demand today, according to real estate professionals and designers, are smart home technologies that monitor and manage systems inside and outside the house. Whether the task is making sure the doors are locked, turning on heaters under the driveway to clear the snow, adjusting shades, changing the indoor temperature or turning on or off an appliance and light, owners now can get the job done from anywhere in the world using their smart phones. Lighting a room today requires more than switching on a lamp; rather, layers of lighting from ambient to task are mixed to match the different functions of a room. Lighting controls make it easy to switch from one to another with touch screen or remote.