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New Rendering Revealed For Office Supertall At 360 Tenth Avenue In Midtown West, Manhattan

A new rendering has been revealed for 360 Tenth Avenue, a proposed supertall commercial skyscraper in Midtown West, Manhattan. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the structure is planned to stand 1,000 feet tall and yield 1 million square feet of Class A office space. McCourt Global is the current owner of the property, which is situated between Brookfield Properties‘ Manhattan West complex and Related Companies‘ first phase of Hudson Yards, and bound by West 31st Street to the north, Dyer Avenue and West 30th Street to the south, and Tenth Avenue to the west.

The above rendering from McCourt Global’s website depicts the southern elevation of the slender tower, which is shown clad in a transparent glass curtain wall. The building rises from a square footprint with a pair of shallow setbacks below the midpoint. Near the two-thirds mark, the profile begins to step back successively, creating a wedge-like appearance reminiscent of SHoP Architects’ 111 West 57th Street. A centralized mechanical bulkhead is located within the tapering section, which culminates in a transparent crown.

McCourt purchased the property for $167 million in 2013 from Sherwood Equities and Long Wharf Real Estate, which had bought it from Barclays in 2011 after the company seized the parcel in 2009 from Extell, which had originally acquired the land for only $23 million in 2005. Today, the plot is currently home to multiple pickleball courts and has been used in the past for various pop-up events.

360 Tenth Avenue’s proposed height would place its roof parapet five feet higher than SOM’s 995-foot-tall One Manhattan West, and 131 feet below The Edge observatory at Kohn Pedersen Fox‘s 1,268-foot-tall 30 Hudson Yards. The design firm is planning to engineer 360 Tenth Avenue to LEED platinum standards and incorporate the latest environmental, health, and safety components. The website also states that the property would offer a direct connection to the recently opened High Line – Moynihan Connector.

Construction is planned commence sometime next year, though an exact timeline has yet to be finalized.

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