I'm liking the Central Park view more than the backside.
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Very nice, I like it. Slender is the new sexy, so it seems.
And man look at that last render with One57 owning everyone. :slob: |
I'm just dead. Just dead. :banana:
This reminds me of an overgrown adaptation of the Austrian Cultural Forum. |
Stunning!! Would be nice if it were twice as tall of course... :D
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I'm not sold on the black walls surrounding the facade though overall beautiful design, the Saya and 785 8th Ave come to mind. judging by the comparison to the Solow Building it looks to be in the 800 ft range.
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Let's hope they opt for better quality glass panels than they used for the Saya/One Madison Park. The mismatched black glass panels and crappy spandrel glass on the clear glass spans of the Saya almost ruin the tower, but it's saved by it's relatively simple massing. This tower won't have that saving grace as it's massing is all over the place, and the different colored windows on the east face could end up looking very cheap if the same quality of glass is used here.
So almost purely on quality of materials, this could be a stunning tower or an eyesore. I'm hoping Barnett opts for quality. |
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/busines...RPnl3lIAT6gVSM
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I wonder when this one will actually get going on this one? It seems like all the permits are in place, must just be a matter of financing.
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Do we know who the architect behind this tower is?
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I like the design, but it would be better with another 200 feet on it.
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An extra 200 ft would probably be a stretch for this design, in both meanings of the word...
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It's fine the way it is in my opinion. Not every new building needs to be a supertall. I'm just hoping they get the materials right.
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http://archpaper.com/news/articles.asp?id=6346
Tapering Heights Another tall, skinny residential tower to pierce the sky in Midtown Manhattan. http://archpaper.com/uploads/image/107_57th_01.jpg Aaron Seward 11.12.2012 Quote:
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FINALLY! A New York highrise with some LED lighting incorporated into the design! :notacrook:
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Love the design. Not only is it tall, it'll look tall too.
/the old building at the corner would have a pretty big presence on my town's skyline. //and that's in a city with over a hundred subway stations. ///4-story penthouse? another $100M penthouse? |
Any speculation when this tower will get started? I think this building will make quite a mark on the Central Park South skyline.
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when are they thinking of construction for this one. really looking forward to it.
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As Midtown continues to get denser, especially with the re-zoning imminent, the focus is going to have to really shift totally away from vehicles. Sidewalks in much of Midtown are crammed as-is, and it's time to start planning while we can. If we can't tax the B&T auto commuters, then we might as well make it as difficult as possible for non-taxi/bus/freight services to use Midtown. |
I think this will be another classic.
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I'm not fully understanding what all of those notches or panels are on the dark portions of the facade facing the avenues (I'm not talking about the balconies facing Central Park). To me it looks like color variations similar to those on One57's sides. Someone mentioned something about LED lights. I don't know.
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It would also cause severe traffic problems. It's one thing to pedestrianize part of Times Square, but to go much further would be shoving it down people's throats. I know urban planners (particularly the more academic kind) love bicycles, foot traffic, and public transportation, but there will always be a sizable portion of the public who want to live in the suburbs and drive in to the city, traffic be damned. Personally, I love driving all around the city so long as it's nights or weekends. |
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Closing off that much of Broadway would be a traffic nightmare, period. And this isn't Europe, you can't always drag people toward whatever is deemed at the moment to be "progressive". I think you are mistaken if you think suburbanites who work or party in Manhattan won't be seriously turned-off by this idea. I love every moment of being in my car, and I generally dislike public transportation. This is insanely off-topic, so please PM me to respond. |
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Someone's personal preferences shouldn't trump the public good, and there are few things more anti-public good than allowing private automobiles to come into Manhattan without paying huge fees. Really no one needs to drive into Manhattan, and those that do need to pay a hell of a lot more than they currently do. Eventually we'll have congestion pricing and/or tolls on all entryways. There's no other way we're going to be able to function. |
I think pedestrianizing streets in Midtown is largely misguided. While Times Square has been successful, others have been less successful. That said, I'm all for pedestrianizing streets in other parts of the city. IMO, places in the Village, SoHo and other places would be amazing as pedestrian only thoroughfares. Mulberry Street, St. Marks Place, even Bleecker or Prince Streets could be nice.
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I'm curious to see night renderings of this building.
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Yay! More fees! The answer to everything -- higher taxes, and more fees! God knows we don't have enough of that in New York. And I agree..no way will New York ever to be able to function without higher taxes, more fees! Gosh, I can't wait to finally experience New York when it is a functioning city! God knows New York doesn't function. What a mess of a city. New York will never be a world city until we finally find a way for it to function! Maybe when we can finally get New York to function it will become desirable enough to get people to drop $30mm, $50mm and $100mm on apartments! And we can finally get some tourists to this functioning city! And maybe we can create a world renowned financial system! We'll name it Wall Street! /sarc. Just widen the sidewalks, landscape heavily and stfu. I'm so sick of (generally unattractive) pedestrian plazas and shoving more people onto the unbearably crowded and rat infested subway system being the answer to every 'progressive's' wet dream. Or better yet -- take the silly pedestrian plazas to the East Village and Williamsburg and leave money-making Midtown Manhattan alone. It is the richest and most important place on the planet and the last thing it needs is more ridiculous street blockages disturbing commerce and their limos. |
I love this tower but think it would look a lot nicer if it had a pointed top
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Oh, and did you know that Tokyo, the city with the greatest GDP on the planet, closes some of its major commercial shopping streets on the weekends to traffic? Did you know that Hong Kong, the financial center of Asia closes many of its streets to shoppers at various times of the day? Did you know that Shanghai, the rising new 'NEW YORK' of Asia, has a huge major commercial street and plaza completely car free? It isn't just the amsterdams, the munichs and the Barcelonas that do this, it is also the cities that are the leading business centers in the world. Your arguments that such improvements to cities interfere with commerce is completely without foundation and you have no evidence that this would occur in NYC given the same implementation there, you are instead acting out of fear of the unknown. |
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Article on the towers of the new "gold coast"...
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I am sorry if that already was asked but do anyone know when the construction should start?
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It's supposed to be completed in 2014, so likely soon.
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Hopefully we get some more renderings soon, but nice to see another one get going.
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Great although I'll believe it when I see it. I feel like they've been about to start this tower for about a year now. If / when it is built, it may become one of the most remarkable sliver towers in the city.
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my fav project in NY
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completed in 2014?? it hardly seems possible, 55 floors of luxe apartments even with almost no excavation and such small floorplates. let's say in begins in may, that'd be groundbreaking to delivery in ~18 months! awesome aggressive schedule!
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IMO new renderings are *long* overdue.
This latest one we've been seeing for months now looks like a pastel drawing from a vantage point that doesn't accentuate it's finer details (i.e. cladding, balcony structure, *real* sense of the building's width...or lack thereof). I'd especially like to see how this interacts with the CPK/57th St. stretch of the skyline (i.e. a "future skyline" rendering if feasible) and towards Tower Verre. |
All permits have been approved, and it work was supposed to begin this quarter. Maybe someone should stop by and check it out.
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