NEW YORK | 666 5th Ave. | 1,400 FT | FLOORS
666 Fifth Ave. may be transformed into a slender tower
September 10, 2015 By Amanda Fung http://www.thecityreview.com/fifth666zzz.jpg Quote:
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Holy crap! A 1,400 foot-tall Zaha Hadid!? I must be dreaming :)
Real Estate heavyweights mull turning Fifth Ave. tower into mall By Lois Weiss September 10, 2015 | 12:02am Quote:
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Another 1,400 ft. Midtown supertall, this time by Zaha Hadid. Sounds good to me.
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Lol. Said this yesterday...
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The Ying-Yang has exploded! :cheers: If there's another tall tower proposed tomorrow, I might have a stroke. Too much good news to recently. :worship: Incredible news. Seems like height decreases on other projects result in more towers that are even taller. Maybe what we need are more height decreases because luck is on our side. :D In a great location. https://www.google.com/maps/vt/data=...DKDEErzy_zbdFo |
Some details: the built FAR of the office building is roughly 1.25 million square feet -- the entire floor area is around 1.5. There's also 50,000 square feet of unused air rights at 21 W 57th.
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Any chance of some airright transfers from St. Thomas?
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I'm guessing 3,000 feet, red, lava smoldering down the sides, and it opes some sort of portal to hell. Long live the 666 tower
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It seems reasonable that if given the chance, St. Thomas would welcome the oppoortunity to sell the remainder of what they had hoped to sell before Amanda Burden made her decision in favor of the neighborhood whiners who seem shocked to learn that they bought homes in midtown Manhattan. If so, it serves the nimbys right that there would be an even taller tower now on the same block as 53w53. |
Hopefully it's a better proposal than her Park Ave tower.
http://archinect.com/news/article/59...tower-unveiled |
Mods should change thread title to 1,400 ft.
Zaha Hadid doesn't do standard-issue towers, so this building will not be a typical box. |
Correct me if I'm wrong but if they go through with this would't this be close to one of the biggest office buildings (in sf) ever purposefully taken down in the city?
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I think they are going to add on top of it. Convert the building into a hotel/residential super tall. Assuming that's what they mean by "restack". Something like a 5 Beekman situation for example, only a super tall. At least I think that's what the articles mean. :uhh: |
I was under the impression it would be more like 380 Madison, where they would remove entire sections of the building in order to put that square footage higher up
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It would be more like the Norman Foster tower going up on Park Ave. Technically an alteration due to zoning rules but really a new tower. |
As very attractive as a new 1400 foot building will be, which btw we can surely assume will be more architecturally significant then the current piece. It is another case of taking office space thats already serving and holding a lot of people, and turning that sf into huge apartments that will not only serve very few, but do nothing in terms of stemming actual residential demand. It reinforces this idea that height really isn't a good measure of the density of people these buildings are bringing into the area, or that all of this new construction is helping the city 'grow'.
Frankly the buildings that are making a dent are the relative crapola on far west 42nd. NY really needs many many more of these right now. |
Not sure if a Hadid tower is good or bad for NY. She certainly does some interesting architecture, but not always in a good way.
Hope it's a stunner, and not something people look at 50 years from now saying "WTF were those people in the 2010's thinking by building this crazy thing?". LOL |
A NY version of 1000 Museum rising in Miami would be nice. She seems to like that type of design.
Some of her work: http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/201...dezeen_ss2.jpg Credit: http://www.dezeen.com/2014/09/05/zah...scrapers-trio/ http://www.condosforsalemiamibeach.c...65756d3232.jpg Credit: http://ivanparada7.blogspot.com/2014...s-will-be.html http://www.noticiasarquitectura.info...a-york-640.jpg Credit: http://www.multifamilyexecutive.com/...ints-nyc-mad_o A slender super tall with that futuristic touch and an alien nature could be something that we may see. Although how it will fit on 5th Avenue in terms of its aesthetics is another question, but I have a feeling something incorporating elements in the projects above will rise. While A.M. stern likes his art-deco, Hadid's designs look like something you'd see in a sci-fi movie. |
^That second one is particularly Gigeresque. Almost creepy in my opinion. I hope nothing like that rises on Fifth Avenue.
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Also for a reminder, here's Hadid's proposal for 425 Park.
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