NEW YORK | 733 8th Ave | 324 FT | 29 FLOORS
Here's the blurb on the project, which will have 600+ hotel rooms and be ~300,000 square feet. Preliminary rendering, as well.
It's not pretty. Riu Hotel Times Square http://www.caribbeannewsdigital.com/...anewyork01.jpg |
That isn't the rendering. They bought the approved site plans from Glenwood, so I assume they will use Glenwood's development plan.
I think that pic is just some weird beach hotel somewhere else in their portfolio, but maybe they posted the "Times Square" label. |
Awesome! I did an elevation in MS Paint when I was 11 that looks just like that!
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It can only be a joke. These guys insist on building garbage near Times Square.
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NEW YORK | 301 W. 46th | FT | FLOORS
This probably won't be designed as the rendering we've seen.
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article...TATE/130819931 600-room hotel to check in west of Times Square Spanish hotel developer RIU Hotels and Resorts begins work on a site at the eastern end of Restaurant Row, on the corner of West 46th Street and Eighth Avenue. Start comes a year after RIU paid $111 million for the site. By Daniel Geiger August 15, 2013 Quote:
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This is the last plan, which has changed according to the article...
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Do we know how big the lot is? |
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It will probably look like this unfortuantely... http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/151852479/original.jpg http://www.caribbeannewsdigital.com/...-new-york-city 06.27.2012 Quote:
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I doubt it will look like that. That's a pic of one of their Spanish hotels superimposed in NYC.
I have no idea what the hotel will look like, but not that. It doesn't even make sense how it looks, and couldn't sit like that on 8th Ave. |
I'm happy some news popped up about this because I was dreading having to search back for the thread to make a comment, but I walked past the other day to grab coffee (my job is a block east on the Square), and I saw construction vehicles in active demolition. The buildings appeared to be more than half-gone...I'd say this could be above ground by Q1 2014 if they move quickly.
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While the current renderings aren't spectacular, it's certainly better than what was on the site before.
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The site is big, the tower could be much taller.
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The design is no great shakes as it is but why do a one story base on the Eighth Ave side and expose the neighbor's blank wall?
You really have to wonder about these architects nowadays. |
Awful. The last buildings constructed in the 8th Avenue are depressing (Except the 250 West Street).
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They also bought the parking garage??
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I like the multiple facades in the prelim render. Taken up to anything ±650', this will have an authoritative presence indeed. Less can be more if done right, which to me this almost is.
That said, they *really* should take that one-story section right out. Why not just take the facade with the random squares all the way to the right-hand corner of the building? The offending structure is hidden and all's well. |
Gross.
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Gross how? :shrug:
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