NEW YORK | One Vanderbilt | 1,401 FT | 58 FLOORS

[QUEENSNYMAN]

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[O-tacular]

This would look better without the toothpick on top. The crown is interesting enough without it.

[chris08876]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

This would look better without the toothpick on top. The crown is interesting enough without it.

I think if they pull it off right, it could be nice and add a lot to the aesthetics of Midtown East. Good thing that its not as long and bulky as the Bank of America tower. Although thats one tower that pulls it off well. This, along with 30 Hudson IMO will really transform the Midtown Aesthetics. Steinway sure, but it won't be as prominent given its dimensions. This on the other hand, no mater if your looking East, West, North, or South, it will stand out in a good way.

[NYguy]

It needs the spire. New York's tallest should always include a spire or exclamation point at the top. It won't be the tallest in town, but it will be the tallest in that area of the massive skyline. It's like the Empire State Building. It's fine without the antenna, but that antenna added an extra spike to the design of the spire that fits it perfectly.




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Paul Goldberger
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The newly (and alas only temporarily) exposed west facade of Grand Central is a mind-blowing change in the cityscape

[dumbo]

http://www.wsj.com/articles/develope...ark-1476663585

[TechTalkGuy]

Developer Sees Manhattan Office Tower as a New Landmark

By Keiko Morris

“It is what announces we are embarking on a new age of what will become the next generation of the city’s landmarks,” said Marc Holliday, chief executive of SL Green Realty Corp., the tower’s developer.

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I said the same thing about 53W53 in another thread.

This tower looks nice but landmark status?

[NYguy]

SL Green Breaks Ground on One Vanderbilt Avenue
1,401-foot-tall skyscraper at doorstep of Grand Central Terminal to reshape city skyline and transform the 21st century workplace

October 18, 2016

SL Green Realty Corp. (NYSE:SLG) today broke ground on One Vanderbilt Avenue, a state-of-art office skyscraper that will anchor the modernization of the East Midtown business district and stand as the second tallest tower in New York City. Rising adjacent to Grand Central Terminal, One Vanderbilt will include direct connections to its network of mass transit, improved by $220 million in upgrades that SL Green is implementing as part of the project.

To mark the construction milestone, SL Green Chief Executive Officer, Marc Holliday, was joined by elected officials and partners, including New York City Mayor, Bill de Blasio, Congresswoman, Carolyn Maloney, Manhattan Borough President, Gale Brewer and Councilmember, Dan Garodnick, at an on-site groundbreaking ceremony.

“One Vanderbilt will be a high-performing addition to the Manhattan skyline serving as a blueprint for 21st century commercial development,” said SL Green CEO Marc Holliday. “As the largest commercial property owner in New York, we are proud to partner with the City to create a model for unsubsidized development that drives our economy and makes a critical contribution to its infrastructure.”

“This new office building, transit upgrades at Grand Central, and expanded pedestrian space are what I call smart growth. We demanded and secured private investments into important City infrastructure that put hundreds of thousands of straphangers first. This strategy helps to keep our city competitive while improving the lives of New Yorkers,” Mayor de Blasio said.

“Not only will One Vanderbilt Avenue be a new iconic tower in the heart of New York City, but with $220 million in public improvements, it will revolutionize the way we use Grand Central Terminal and midtown,” said Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY12). “This is a great example of a public-private partnership, where the public gets new open space and better access to transportation. I want to thank SL Green for being a thoughtful and generous participant in a land use process that really took into account the community’s needs.”

“It’s gratifying to be breaking ground not just on this building, but on what it represents: a massive investment in our transit and pedestrian infrastructure, and a first step toward the future of East Midtown,” said Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer. “When development is done carefully, collaboratively, and produces real investments in the public realm that improve the neighborhood, everyone wins.”

“This is an exciting new day for East Midtown, where our rules are not only promoting growth but also matching it with extraordinary transit improvements,” said Councilmember Dan Garodnick. “The result will be class A office buildings, and just as importantly, a class A office district. We expect that One Vanderbilt is going to set an important precedent for the rest of East Midtown.”

“East Midtown has been the premier economic engine of New York City for many years, a title that One Vanderbilt will help it retain,” said City Planning Commission Chairman Carl Weisbrod. “By committing to $220 million in public investment, One Vanderbilt will benefit not only its tenants but the city as a whole. As we move forward with a proposal to revitalize Greater East Midtown, we believe that One Vanderbilt will signal this neighborhood's full potential. For East Midtown, the best is yet to come.”

Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) Associates, One Vanderbilt will encompass an entire city block, bounded by Madison and Vanderbilt Avenues to the west and east, and East 43rd and East 42nd Streets to the north and south. Standing 1,401 feet tall, the building’s tapered form will pay tribute to New York’s iconic skyscrapers, while its sharp lines and bold angles will punctuate Manhattan’s skyline with an elegant, 21st-century articulation. At its base along 42nd Street, the building will set back at an angle to permanently reveal Grand Central’s majestic Vanderbilt cornice – a view that has been obstructed for nearly a century.

Expected to achieve the highest possible LEED certification, the trophy tower will offer 1.7 million square feet of Class-A office space across 58 floors, featuring column-free floors and stunning views through floor-to-ceiling windows. One Vanderbilt will also offer tenants floor to ceiling slab heights ranging from 14’6” to 20’, a 30,000-square-foot tenant-only amenity floor and world-class dining.

“One Vanderbilt will not only emerge as an elegant, tapered new icon on the New York skyline, but will also serve as a leading example of a global trend of connecting train stations to tall towers,” said James von Klemperer, FAIA, RIBA, President of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates. “This building will change its neighborhood for the better. It will provide a new gateway to the city made possible only through the unusually harmonious partnership between architect, developer, and the City of New York.”

Through SL Green’s unprecedented $220 million public infrastructure investment, One Vanderbilt will transform the commuting experience for hundreds of thousands of travelers commuting through Grand Central each day. Specifically, this package of infrastructure upgrades will create a new jewel box transit hall in the base of One Vanderbilt, a new 14,000-square-foot pedestrian plaza on Vanderbilt Avenue, and enhanced access into and out of the Grand Central complex for riders of the city subway system, Metro-North and future Long Island Railroad East Side Access.

SL Green has secured TD Bank as an anchor tenant, set to occupy approximately 200,000 square feet of office and retail space in One Vanderbilt, including a flagship store at the corner of 42nd Street and Madison Avenue. Hines is SL Green’s development manager and AECOM’s Tishman Construction is the construction manager. Construction is expected to be complete in 2020.

“The One Vanderbilt building is a historic addition to the New York City skyline and we're proud to participate in the financing of this transformational project,” said Gregg Gerken, Head of Commercial Real Estate for TD Bank. “We also look forward to becoming a tenant. This building is designed to achieve the highest possible LEED requirements, which aligns with our commitment to being an environmental leader – and that's something we know is important to our employees and customers.”

“It is a privilege to be a partner with SL Green in this transformational development,” said Tommy Craig, Senior Managing Director of Hines. “The property’s direct connection to Grand Central Terminal, its remarkable open space at grade, aspirational architecture and best-in-class technology, will have a catalytic effect on midtown Manhattan for decades to come.”

“As the leading builder of New York's greatest iconic towers, we're excited to be breaking ground on such a distinctive and visually stunning building, which will be the cornerstone of a revitalized East Midtown,” said Jay Badame, President of AECOM Tishman. "By demonstrating a tremendous commitment to an area of New York that needs new building, SL Green is transforming a neighborhood, and that's something we are always proud to be a part of.”

“Today's groundbreaking is an important step forward in the modernization and future of Midtown East,” said John H. Banks III, President of the Real Estate Board of New York. “We congratulate SL Green on this milestone, One Vanderbilt will now become a catalyst for the creation of good middle class jobs and important tax revenue. This project will serve the needs of Midtown East's aging office supply and set new standards in sustainability and design, further ensuring that New York City remains the center of world commerce, culture, media, and finance.”

The MTA worked closely with SL Green as it developed plans for this iconic new building next to Grand Central securing private sector investment in transit infrastructure that will make commutes better for hundreds of thousands of our customers every day," MTA Chairman and CEO Thomas F. Prendergast said. "The MTA will continue to support innovative proposals that link development with transit investment, and we hope that One Vanderbilt is the first of many to come."

http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/...building-.html

Soon-to-Be Second Tallest NYC Building Breaks Ground Today

October 18, 2016

A groundbreaking ceremony is being held Tuesday for what will be the city's second tallest building.

One Vanderbilt Avenue will top out at more than 1,500 feet, putting it behind One World Trade which is more than 1,700 feet tall.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/10/...roundbreaking/

Groundbreaking Ceremony Held For One Vanderbilt Avenue

October 18, 2016

A groundbreaking ceremony was held Tuesday in midtown Manhattan for what will be the city’s second tallest tower.

So much construction going on around the city these days, people can't keep the heights and rankings accurate.



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[NYguy]

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[TechTalkGuy]

2nd tallest?
More like 3rd tallest as long as they keep the spire.

[faridnyc]

Originally Posted by TechTalkGuy

2nd tallest?
More like 3rd tallest as long as they keep the spire.

You man you forget the central park tower 1550ft and 1570 ft to the parapet and in case cpt recovring it spire is a ~1800ft as a resault is the 3rd

[Submariner]

With time, I think people will hold the towers design in high regard.

I wish the upper most setback was a bit wider, but even as is, we're witnessing the rise of a great structure. Hopefully, it will convince the city to pass the re-zoning, and allow other concessions to developers to further the agenda of urban re-development.

[antinimby]

Too bad they couldn't toss Queen Nim Gale Brewer and Dan Garodnick into that pit and bury them there.

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by antinimby

Too bad they couldn't toss Queen Nim Gale Brewer and Dan Garodnick into that pit and bury them there.

If only.



https://commercialobserver.com/2016/...ne-vanderbilt/

They Vander-broke ground.

Construction officially began on One Vanderbilt, what is slated to abut Grand Central Terminal and become the second-tallest office building in New York City.

SL Green Realty Corp. executives and city officials ceremonially broke ground on the tower, which will have a roof height of 1,401 feet when it finishes in 2020. Commencing construction follows more than a year of demolition to prepare for the full-block building between East 42nd and East 43rd Streets, a rigorous rezoning process and securing $1.5 billion in financing.

[TechTalkGuy]

I read that too.
When does this thread get promoted from Proposals to Construction?

[Design-mind]

What the heck! Is that Gale brewer at the ground breaking ceremony? I would have thought she would have been vehemently opposed to this project given its height.

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by TechTalkGuy

I read that too.
When does this thread get promoted from Proposals to Construction?

The standard at SSP is when something goes into the ground, as opposed to just coming out. Sure, it's just a matter of time until something goes in here, but that's the standard.

Originally Posted by Design-mind

What the heck! Is that Gale brewer at the ground breaking ceremony? I would have thought she would have been vehemently opposed to this project given its height.

Every politician loves a good photo-op. When all is said and done, everyone wants to be seen as "being for it" from the start, especially when it's an obvious good thing. Same applies to that Dan Garodnick. He was the main reason this thing got hung up in the Bloomberg administration.



http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer...g-we-need.html

Is One Vanderbilt the 1,400-Foot-Tall Building We Need?




By Justin Davidson

Sometime in the next few years, a new landmark will muscle onto the skyline, hulking over the Chrysler Building and waving to the Empire State Building half a mile away. At 1,401 feet — more than a quarter-mile high —the skyscraper known as One Vanderbilt will have Grand Central Terminal as its ground-hugging neighbor; the vacant construction site has opened up a tantalizing but temporary view of the station’s western flank. When the new tower is completed, we’ll be able to pick it out from bridge crossings and airplanes and adjoining states, its four crystalline forms tapering off in turn like voices at the end of a round. We’ll note the lines of angled terra-cotta tiles banding the glass façade and giving the surface an expensively patterned texture. Depending on our dispositions, we’ll celebrate or bemoan Manhattan’s continuing vertical march.

But despite this ostentatious new presence in the heavens — a new scepter just waiting to be shattered in the next alien-invasion movie — its most significant segment will be the lowest. The building gets its meaning at street level, where the people are and the architecture reaches its apex of complexity. Those first 100 feet show what the public can demand from a big corporate office tower: not just a machine for making money, but a juncture in the city’s life. One Vanderbilt, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox, is that rarity, a civic-minded Goliath. A ceiling clad with concave terra-cotta tiles tilts up from west to east, like a mouth opening to swallow Grand Central. Those who step inside can slip down the building’s gullet and into the transit system. The street outside, for years a dark forgotten alley, will become a pedestrian-only thoroughfare, adding to the area’s scarce stock of genuinely public space.

.....One Vanderbilt needed a public buy-in from the start: a change in height and bulk restrictions to allow one of the city’s tallest buildings. Michael Bloomberg’s administration was happy to oblige. In the waning months of his tenure, Bloomberg tried to force through a sweeping rezoning plan that would not only have made this tower possible but also turned a vast swath of eastern midtown into fertile ground for new development. When that overreach failed, it looked for a while like the project was dead and the area around Grand Central would indefinitely remain a thronged but aging business district of low-ceilinged office buildings. Then the de Blasio administration revived a miniaturized version of the rezoning plan, tailored to let One Vanderbilt proceed. The cumulative result of all this stop-and-start negotiating was a sophisticated design and $220 million in street and transit improvements, to be paid for by the developer, SL Green.

The neighborhood badly needs those ministrations, and the urgency will only increase. When the Long Island Rail Road arrives on the East Side (a blessed event not scheduled for another five years, at best), it will ship in as many as 75,000 new commuters per hour, doubling the station’s peak congestion. Those crowds would overwhelm Grand Central’s ramps and escalators, turning the flow of foot traffic between platform and sidewalk into a sclerotic sludge. Instead, many of those new arrivals will siphon off toward 43rd Street and wind up in the base of One Vanderbilt. This might seem like a function only a traffic engineer could love, but it roots the building in the city’s public life. It also makes the tower’s most important face the one that turns toward Grand Central.

http://nypost.com/2016/10/18/one-van...ank-as-tenant/

the space at the top of One Vanderbilt can’t be occupied by office tenants until the $220 million transit improvements and connections are completed.

Mayor de Blasio repeated this not once but twice during his speech at Tuesday’s groundbreaking.

While the remark prompted a TD Bank official to make a face, the bank’s 200,000-square-foot tenancy won’t be affected. It will have an impact, however, on the portion of the building that was allowed to be added through the public improvement deal with the city.

Roughly, this would be half the building as it went from a 15 FAR (floor area ratio) to a 30 FAR.

SL Green Chief Executive Marc Holliday told me the 250,000-square-foot tenants the company is seeking are barely looking now, and likely won’t make any commitments until later in the process when “they can see it.”

The hole in the ground bounded by East 42nd and East 43rd streets and Madison and Vanderbilt avenues is about 10 feet away from its bottom, Holliday said. The building should be completely finished by 2020.

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[TechTalkGuy]

Originally Posted by NYguy

The standard at SSP is when something goes into the ground, as opposed to just coming out. Sure, it's just a matter of time until something goes in here, but that's the standard.

I asked because this is the moment when the photo updates really begin to show progress.

Originally Posted by NYguy

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Good to see how the shuttle from Times Square moves people directly to One Vanderbilt.

Originally Posted by NYguy

The plaza looks generic.
I would like to see something more, like a fountain or sculpture.
The potential is there.

Originally Posted by NYguy

Will the restaurant be open to the public?

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by TechTalkGuy

Will the restaurant be open to the public?

There are at least a couple of restaurants, above and on the 2nd floor over 42nd Street...

[chris08876]

Just towers over the Chrysler Building. In terms of bulkiness, based on the model, it kinda has a metlife girth to it. Site itself is big, and its a change from the sliver super talls going up. On the level of 1 WTC.


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[NYguy]

Move along New Yorkers. Nothing to see here. Just another supertall rising.



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