NEW YORK | 1715 Broadway | 751 FT / 229 M | 67 FLOORS - Page 18

Duck From NY · #**341** Posted **Sep 23, 2012, 12:48 PM**

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Rendering...

For comparison...

Wasabi Bob

I think this one turned out really well.

What's up with all the horrible render releases lately? All these buildings seem to be turning out better than I originally thought.

NewYorkDominates · #**342** Posted **Sep 23, 2012, 3:09 PM**

^Never rely on a rendering when the building is all glass.Glass buildings have so many factors which are very hard to render such as:true reflection,true refraction,quality of glass(4WTC) and many other little minuscule factors contributed by Mother Nature.That is why an entire glass building is different from the rest and harder to render.

babybackribs2314 · #**343** Posted **Sep 26, 2012, 3:15 PM**

Update from yesterday with pictures of the crown!

Midtown Rising September 2012 Update

hunser · #**344** Posted **Sep 26, 2012, 3:29 PM**

Confirmed by the CTBUH:

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Height: Architectural 229.5 meter / 753 feet
Height: To Tip 229.5 meter / 753 feet
Floors Above Ground 68
# of Hotel Rooms 639

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Facts
Official Name Courtyard and Residence Inn Manhattan Central Park
Type building
Status Topped Out
Country United States
State New York
City New York City
Street Address 1715 Broadway
Building Function hotel
Structural Material concrete
Start of Construction 2011
Completion 2013

Hudson11 · #**345** Posted **Sep 26, 2012, 4:26 PM**

rendering

Nobutaka Ashihara Architect (naa-arch)

Barbarossa · #**346** Posted **Sep 26, 2012, 11:37 PM**

I believe this building has replaced what was effectively the last dilapidated corner on Broadway in Midtown.

DesignerVoodoo · #**347** Posted **Sep 28, 2012, 12:11 AM**

I took these Monday afternoon.

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reencharles · #**348** Posted **Sep 28, 2012, 2:35 AM**

Nice shots, thanks: DesignerVoodoo and babybackribs.

Dac150 · #**349** Posted **Sep 29, 2012, 4:41 PM**

Can't believe how quickly this one has risen. Seems like not too long ago that I first came across this project when it was in the proposal stage. I don't consider the design anything the write home about, however it's a nice tall and slender tower that fits the image of the area without overdoing it.

detroitmetro101 · #**350** Posted **Oct 3, 2012, 1:07 AM**

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Originally Posted by DesignerVoodoo

I took these Monday afternoon.

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im sorry, i may be ignorant, but whats the building next to it under construction...not the one on the left, the one in the middle...

yankeesfan1000 · #**351** Posted **Oct 3, 2012, 1:24 AM**

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Originally Posted by detroitmetro101

...im sorry, i may be ignorant, but whats the building next to it under construction...not the one on the left, the one in the middle...

237 W 54th St.

ThatOneGuy · #**352** Posted **Oct 3, 2012, 3:12 AM**

Is it just me, or has cladding started on that middle building?

NYC2ATX · #**353** Posted **Oct 3, 2012, 7:43 AM**

Passed by earlier after leaving work...I saw they have installed much of the mechanical equipment inside the steel structure up top. The progress is impressive

babybackribs2314 · #**354** Posted **Oct 3, 2012, 11:04 AM**

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Originally Posted by ThatOneGuy

Is it just me, or has cladding started on that middle building?

That would be called a shadow.

ThatOneGuy · #**355** Posted **Oct 3, 2012, 8:08 PM**

^^ I mean there appear to be some extra columns in the darker area that are not in the exposed, lighter area, so are those from the cladding?

babybackribs2314 · #**356** Posted **Oct 3, 2012, 9:00 PM**

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^^ I mean there appear to be some extra columns in the darker area that are not in the exposed, lighter area, so are those from the cladding?

Hmm I do see that, but there doesn't look to be any glass yet. I'll take some pictures in a few days though.

Mike570 · #**357** Posted **Oct 3, 2012, 11:25 PM**

That's deff black cladding

simms3_redux · #**358** Posted **Oct 4, 2012, 4:50 AM**

That thing is so talll.

NYguy · #**359** Posted **Oct 4, 2012, 8:30 PM**

http://commercialobserver.com/2012/10/240677/

1717 Broadway, Newly Topped Out, Carries the Torch Blighting Rivals’ Views

By Daniel Geiger
Oct 4, 2012

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1717 Broadway, a new hotel development that has the distinction of being the tallest in the Western Hemisphere, has topped out at a lofty 750-feet, the tower’s developer Granite Broadway Development announced on Thursday. The building will house a Marriott Courtyard on the lower floors and a 261-unit extended stay hotel at the top that will also be operated Marriot.

As its height suggests, it will permit its guests soaring views of the city. But in the dog-eat-dog world of New York City real estate, so too will the building, which already is distinct for the way its thin profile dramatically contrasts with its towering height, also stand in the way of such ogling from the upper floors of its neighbors. 1717 Broadway will obstruct to a degree the eastward views for 250 West 55th Street, a new office tower just a block west that is in the process of being developed by Boston Properties.

The situation is not the first time a new tower has been built only to have its views usurped by – or be the usurper of – a rival’s. There is a ruthless math to tower development in the Manhattan and the addition of one building to the skyline almost always subtracts from the views of another.

DesignerVoodoo · #**360** Posted **Oct 6, 2012, 3:02 AM**

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Originally Posted by detroitmetro101

im sorry, i may be ignorant, but whats the building next to it under construction...not the one on the left, the one in the middle...

If you are going to repost my photo please credit me as the photographer.