Posted Apr 28, 2020, 1:44 PM
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There's a lot that we don't know about this tower, but here's what we have pieced together so far...
https://www.gensler.com/projects/tower-fifth
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- Located just north of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, east of Fifth Avenue between 51st and 52nd Streets, Tower Fifth will rank as the second tallest building not only in New York, but in the Western Hemisphere.
- Climbing 1,556 feet above Manhattan, the 1.3-million-gross-square-foot tower creates a new paradigm for how a supertall structure meets the street and interacts with its neighbors.
- Its ground floor glass-enclosed public galleria spans the entire block, framing views of St. Patrick’s Cathedral while extending the civic realm into the building footprint, leading visitors to shops, a food hall, and an auditorium.
- At the top of the tower, the city’s highest observatory grants unprecedented views and features an array of unique experiential, cultural, and entertainment experiences within a public observatory.
- The office floors feature 960,000 square feet of tenant space and amenities focused on wellness.
- Tower Fifth is wrapped in an innovative, energy-efficient Closed Cavity Facade system which reduces solar heat gain by more than 70%. It will be the first deployment of this type of system in North America.
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https://www.crainsnewyork.com/real-e...-citys-tallest
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- The tower, which would rise midblock between East 51st and East 52nd streets, features unusual elements, including a tapered, stiltlike midsection that will prop up the height of the floors above.
- The highest floors will feature a multilevel observatory. According to several people who have seen Macklowe's proposal, he has envisioned a clear, plastic or glass-enclosed slide that would protrude from the building's exterior, giving riders the vertiginous sensation of soaring high above the city.
- The building's mass-damper—a large, water-filled mechanism to reduce sway in supertall towers—would be on display with an accompanying seismograph that charts the energy of the movement it muffles.
- Macklowe has been telling stakeholders that project would cantilever over the landmarked John Pierce residence on East 51st Street, include an observation deck near the top and feature a public space near the base, though his plans could change as the process moves forward.
- To build the more than 1 million-square-foot building, Macklowe needs to secure hundreds of thousands of square feet of air rights. Several sources familiar with his plans said he will acquire a large tranche from St. Patrick's Cathedral, which owns more than 1 million square feet of unused development rights.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/18/n...raper-nyc.html
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- The proposed building will require billions of dollars to build and includes an expensive and energy-efficient facade rarely seen in the United States, a public concourse, plush tenant amenities — a lap pool, yoga room and multilevel running track — and the city’s tallest observatory, where visitors would be able to dive down a transparent, 60-foot corkscrew slide.
- An 85-foot-high glass lobby would stretch from 52nd Street to 51st Street, where the entrance would dramatically frame the side-street doors to St. Patrick’s.
- Escalators would lead to the lower levels, restaurants, shops and elevators for the observatory.
- A glass-walled public auditorium would sit above the lobby and look onto the top of St. Patrick’s.
- The office tower itself, however, would step back from St. Patrick’s, rising on 52nd Street atop two stems or stilts, near 400 feet above the sidewalks.
- The proposed building would cantilever about 100 feet over the Look Building and 300 feet above an adjoining landmark, the John Peirce house
- Mr. Macklowe will have to cut a pricey deal with the owners of the Look Building and Peirce house for the cantilever and purchase roughly 580,000 square feet of unused development rights to get to the building’s full height. Much of that will probably come from St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
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https://www.mas.org/news/presidents-...-january-2019/
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Municipal Arts Society
President’s Letter: January 2019
- We had a preliminary presentation on the new Macklowe project, Tower Fifth, that will cantilever over the historic John Pierce Residence and our own LOOK Building. It has a 103 foot “stem” that has no FAR attributed to it.
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