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[chris08876]

Rockrose has filed plans for a Hudson Yards rental tower

Rockrose Development has filed plans to build the first part of its long-imagined, 1.6 million-square-foot development in Hudson Yards.

Plans filed with the city on Thursday call for a 600-unit residential tower at 551 West 38th Street, according to Rockrose president Justin Elghanayan.

Designed by Rafael Pelli of Pelli Clarke Pelli, the 51-story rental tower is located between 10th and 11th Avenues and will total 400,000 square feet. Phase two of Rockrose’s master plan will consist of a 1.2 million-square-foot office tower that’s still in the “early stage of design,” Elghanayan said.

At 551 West 38th, the developer is planning 16,000 square feet of amenities, including a fitness center on the 30th floor as well as a roof deck, game room, golf simulator and squash court. Rather than build a “chunky” rectangular structure, the building was designed to appear as if it has two towers — or “trunks of a tree that have split,” Pelli said. (The taller portion is 590 feet while the shorter part is 330 feet.)

Different glass and metal facades will be used to wrap the sides of the building to give it additional texture, the architect added.

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[patriotizzy]

Originally Posted by chris08876

Rockrose has filed plans for a Hudson Yards rental tower





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"Rather than build a “chunky” rectangular structure, the building was designed to appear as if it has two towers — or “trunks of a tree that have split,” Pelli said. (The taller portion is 590 feet while the shorter part is 330 feet.)"

This sounds nice.

[Hudson11]

Let's hope Pelli doesn't disappoint here. 138 East 50th turned out unappealing despite the renderings.
The concept here sounds a lot like Cira Center South in Philly, which is one of the USA's best new skyscrapers.

photos from the CTBUH:


Lester Ali


John Cahill

[Phil McAvity]

I agree, that's a nice building

[chris08876]

Originally Posted by patriotizzy

"Rather than build a “chunky” rectangular structure, the building was designed to appear as if it has two towers — or “trunks of a tree that have split,” Pelli said. (The taller portion is 590 feet while the shorter part is 330 feet.)"

This sounds nice.

I agree. Its a start. We should be seeing a lot of infill around the HY neighborhood. Aside from the actual yards (phase I and II). Already we've seen tons of stuff rising, and this will only continue.

I think the most exciting prospect is that 1.2 mil-sqft office tower.

I think Midtown West will continue to become denser, and overtime, resemble Midtown East. Nearby, the Penn Station District to look forward too. The next cycle will be quite busy.

[chris08876]

With $57M in air rights, Rockrose moves ahead with Hudson Yards resi tower

Privately held Manhattan-based Rockrose Development closed this month on the second and final package of air rights needed to build its planned 598-unit residential tower in Hudson Yards.

Rockrose needed the transferable development rights to move forward with the 565-foot-tall tower planned for 555 West 38th Street, at 11th Avenue.

The residential rental building is the first of two towers planned on land Rockrose began assembling in 2002, that together total 1.39 million square feet of development potential, city records show. The other is an approximately 1-million-square-foot office building that does not yet have plans filed.

Projects in Hudson Yards illustrate the powerful influence the city’s land use decisions have to promote development. This project and many others like it have doubled in size thanks to the fuel of transferable development rights.

The firm led by Henry Elghanayan and his son Justin, paid $20.5 million for 139,093 square feet of air rights from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, in a deal that closed in January, city records show. The price was $147 per square foot.

Last July the firm paid $35.8 million to the Hudson Yards District Improvement Fund to acquire 278,186 square feet of development rights, at a price of $128.78 per foot, city records show.

Rockrose filed plans in September for the 403,842-square-foot residential tower. The high-rise has a building envelope of about 467,000 square feet, NYC Department of Buildings records show.

The building is being designed by Pelli Clark Pelli Architects, with SLCE Architects as the architect of record. The tower will have 16,000 square feet of tenant amenity space, according to the developer, including roof top terraces, a squash court and a golf simulator. The building will have 150 units affordable and the balance free market.

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