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[TonyNYC]

Originally Posted by ChiND

I agree. It would be nice if this site could be combined with the one to the east that received that odd Gumby-reclad in the 90s.

Yep.. hopefully Aby Rosen's RFR is looking to sell that lot or it gets taken from them like the Chrysler Building and 285 Madison Ave.

Tishman Speyer owns the building next door at 666 3rd Ave.. 32 floor office building.. combined BSF would make for big ass tower a block from Grand Central..

[ChiND]

Originally Posted by TonyNYC

Yep.. hopefully Aby Rosen's RFR is looking to sell that lot or it gets taken from them like the Chrysler Building and 285 Madison Ave.

Tishman Speyer owns the building next door at 666 3rd Ave.. 32 floor office building.. combined BSF would make for big ass tower a block from Grand Central..

That would be nice!

[Hudson11]

since the Pfizer redevelopment ended up just being a residential conversion, I don't care to see this tower rise very tall either. Chrysler is the one tower in NYC that it would be nice to preserve as much citywide views on the skyline as possible.

[Age of Whamsies]

In my ideal world, everything else on Chrysler's block would be torn down and a plaza/park put in

[DCReid]

Originally Posted by Age of Whamsies

In my ideal world, everything else on Chrysler's block would be torn down and a plaza/park put in

In my ideal world, Chrysler would be raised about 300-500 feet so the wonderful simmering spire could dominate the area.

[Age of Whamsies]

Originally Posted by DCReid

In my ideal world, Chrysler would be raised about 300-500 feet so the wonderful simmering spire could dominate the area.

You know.. with AI and robotics inevitably pushing materials and construction costs way down, wacky ideas like this are not completely implausible. I could see something as insane as raising Chrysler being not only technically possible but potentially profitable within 100 years

[Busy Bee]

[ajbeaver25]

Originally Posted by Busy Bee

I mean it sounds crazy now but he's actually got a point. Chrysler is so iconic that restoring it in the future might not be a terrible plan.

On top of that I'm curious how much stronger materials could be with accelerated innovation from AI. Maybe one day glass wont need as many fins and we could have large panels, creating unobstructed views.

[Age of Whamsies]

Originally Posted by Busy Bee

Its the username, isnt it

[Age of Whamsies]

Originally Posted by ajbeaver25

I mean it sounds crazy now but he's actually got a point. Chrysler is so iconic that restoring it in the future might not be a terrible plan.

On top of that I'm curious how much stronger materials could be with accelerated innovation from AI. Maybe one day glass wont need as many fins and we could have large panels, creating unobstructed views.

Robotics is going to change construction more profoundly than even the industrial revolution itself did. Seriously.. people 200 years from now will look back at photos/videos of iron workers riveting beams the way we look at animated "photos/videos" (based on various theories) of the pyramids or stonehenge being built

And yes, to your point, materials science will see a lot of progress soon too. If the Alphafold project could fully solve protein folding, advanced materials are totally possible.

[NYguy]

This is where I still stand on this. Even if a placeholder, retail development takes shape, the long term preferred plan is for a consolidation of sites.

Originally Posted by NYguy

Hopefully, this is just Rosen making waves, and Tishman Speyer buys the property to assemble a development site for a new tower that would offer larger floorplates, and room for the Chrysler to breath. A larger footprint would also trigger the plaza requirements of any new development. This is not something that will happen overnight, they've got time to figure it out.

[TREPYE]

The proximity of that garbage to the Chrysler is so appalling and damaging, on so many levels not just to the aesthetics of NYC but to the historical fabric of the eastern flank of the Chrysler Buildings:

The architectural loveliness of its exterior and interior deserve their own lengthy posts. This post is about how a slant along the Chrysler Building’s setback reflects the former presence of a primitive road traversed by colonial-era New Yorkers.

Gerald R. Wolfe points out this setback in his deeply researched book of walking tours, New York: A Guide to the Metropolis. “Around the corner on 42nd Street (best viewed from the south side of the street), it will be noted that the east wall of the Chrysler Building’s lower setback is not parallel to the north-south avenues,” wrote Wolfe.

Not just any Colonial Road but the "Old Boston Post Road" which was basically one of the original postal routes in the US from which mail was delivered from NYC to Boston.

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