Not much information about this one, it's already under construction, but I don't think any renderings have been released. According to skyscrapers.com it will be 604 ft/184 m

Here's a recent little article from the post..

NY POST

Consolation prize

By Lore Croghan

High-rise apartment buildings are sprouting like sunflowers on the far western end of 42nd Street.

The newest to put down roots - or foundations - is Gary Barnett's 58-story project at 350 W. 42nd St. It will have 529 apartments.

Barnett owned another property across from the Port Authority Bus Terminal - but it was condemned for the New York Times headquarters that Bruce Ratner is building. Barnett's current project site, near the corner of Ninth Avenue, may not be quite as sexy a location but it's a nice consolation prize.

Under construction pics from this month, August:

http://www.emporis.com/files/transfer/6/2004/08/289554.jpg

http://www.emporis.com/files/transfer/6/2004/08/289555.jpg

any renderings?

Rendering:

http://www.sotawall.com/proj_detail/USA_350W_01_lg.jpg

It's under construction and just off the ground.

very good tower, I like it, though 58 floors for 143m is pushing the limit

hehe, 143 meters isn't 604 feet ;) I think that Jack meant to write 183 meters. :)


Yet another tower on 42nd street.

well I can live even 10 more years in the US, I'll never understand that old system :D
I just know my height, 5'10, and that a foot is 12 inches and makes 30cm.
Anyway, 183 is much better for a tower of almost 60 floors.
Anyway, back to it, on 42nd, I guess it's west of the NYTT?
There's a wall being built, we won't be able to see the ESB from uptown! :D
On the other side, the canyon is being prolonged.
In any case, it's all good
EDIT: I just saw it mentioned the adress, 9th ave, even closer to the NYTT

Yea, my fault guys, 604 feet is 184 meters. I use google to convert, just type something like "604 ft to m" and it gives you the answer.

As for the tower, it's kind of boring and dull. I really hope the facade is a reflective glass and not a dull one. The design is pretty simple, I don't know, not too excited about this one.

well I hope it's reflective glass too, but to tell the truth, I like glass boxes :D
and on top of that, I love that terrasse or whatever the name around the middle of the building, with the garden.

It looks kinda good in the rendering, let's see how it will look in real-life

Fascinating deisign this one has.

nice

Not much information about this one, it's already under construction, but I don't think any renderings have been released. According to skyscrapers.com it will be 604 ft/184 m

Here's a recent little article from the post..

NY POST

Consolation prize

By Lore Croghan

High-rise apartment buildings are sprouting like sunflowers on the far western end of 42nd Street.

The newest to put down roots - or foundations - is Gary Barnett's 58-story project at 350 W. 42nd St. It will have 529 apartments.

Barnett owned another property across from the Port Authority Bus Terminal - but it was condemned for the New York Times headquarters that Bruce Ratner is building. Barnett's current project site, near the corner of Ninth Avenue, may not be quite as sexy a location but it's a nice consolation prize.

Under construction pics from this month, August:

http://www.emporis.com/files/transfer/6/2004/08/289554.jpg

http://www.emporis.com/files/transfer/6/2004/08/289555.jpg

wut ta fuck, i cannot view my own pics

looking at the rendering I gotta say that I do like the sleek modern design of this tower! :okay: :cool: :)

simple and glassy..and i see it has sky-gardens which seem to be the rage now :cool:

west 42nd seems to be the hotspot for residential development these days...

it's not a bad design, but i bet it would've looked better with its context if they build it even closer to the commercial skyscrapers of times square.

I don't really like the break in the middle but the gardens are pretty cool.

Great tower! Midtown skyline is really improving!

i really like the rendering and the trees half way up the tower, are just amazing!!

http://live7.truelook.com/timages/live7/strends/NorthView/imgbuf/buf_1316/1108803926896217.jpg

Two days ago
http://img188.exs.cx/img188/9126/dscf0006orionucfeb05mcgrawhill.jpg

http://img188.exs.cx/img188/985/dscf0008orionucfeb05tothesouth.jpg

http://img188.exs.cx/img188/836/dscf0009orionucfeb05tothesouth.jpg

http://img188.exs.cx/img188/9574/dscf0010orionucfeb05tothesouth.jpg

With the tower going up there's gonna be some actual serious highrise density, a pretty rare thing west of 8th Avenue. Here's the opposite side of the street:

http://img36.exs.cx/img36/6079/dscf0007hollandhoteltothenorth.jpg
From left to right: The Presidential, Holland Hotel, Ivy Tower, Orion's crane

The Presidential is one of smaller new local towers, yet I still like it, esp for the density it brings:
http://img36.exs.cx/img36/6379/dscf0005presidentialtothenorth.jpg

To the east down the 42nd Street is Times Square with its tons of glass of new developments:
http://img36.exs.cx/img36/980/dscf0011timessquarew42ndtopssm.jpg

when's the expected finish date?

The tower is nice and all, but i kinda like McGraw-Hill being there on its own. Theres something nice about it.

yeah, i don't like to see the jolly green giant being surrounded by residential towers either. but at least this building looks commercial enough to give it company.

west 42nd is definitely getting density in terms of high rises, with all these apartment towers rising on either side of the street from 8th ave all the way to the hudson river. at this rate, this area will become a virtual extension of the midtown skyline by 2010, with this building, westin times square, ny times, times square plaza, old mcgraw-hill, and many other apartment towers forming a canyon over west 42nd.

i used to worry that all those residential tower developments in clinton would end up blocking the view of midtown from the hudson river, but it turned out that except for west 42nd st, clinton's still almost entirely flat.

that area needs development. it has been expected for a long while. 42nd street is a hotbed of prestigeous developments at the moment.

From world forums...

Here are my photos taken today! 04/10/2005

by me, Carlos ;)


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/to1.jpg

lobby - detail
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/to2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/to3.jpg

Looking good Orion!

Rendering posted by Chad:

http://www.corcoran.com/property/nd/photo/Orion.jpg

ITS GOING TO BE GREAT!

Rendering:

http://www.sotawall.com/proj_detail/USA_350W_01_lg.jpg

It's under construction and just off the ground.


Amazing! :)

Updates...

A clearer pic of The Orion's construction in its surrounds. Taken by Edward over @ Wired NY:

http://www.wirednewyork.com/real_estate/orion/orion_42nd.jpg

http://home.hetnet.nl/~tdb150881/nyc2/rview6.jpg

This one was taken bij aedificium erectum and posted at the netherlands section of the forum but gives a fine view on the buidling.

yeah my update! :banana:

I saw the construction but I didn't know which tower it was. I can make an update from off the roof off the office I work now, only 2 blocks from this tower so great view! I'll do that soon.

Lots of glass now, update from world forums:

LATEST LOOK, PHOTOS TAKEN TODAY BY ME, ON MOTHERS DAY...05/08/05

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/DSC00015.jpg

wow, the tower is really fast rishing!

Update from world forums...

LATEST LOOK AT THIS TOWER, TODAY IS MAY 27, 2005

View from 41st and 8th avenue, rear of tower...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/5b58e643.jpg

looking taller every week!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/555628e1.jpg

construction worker, working with glass walls.....:crazy:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/dc8e98ea.jpg

sun pick-a-boo

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/ab49cb74.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/ba31df29.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/713ecae9.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/21f1c0b4.jpg

all photos by me! :) :hug:

Lookin Good

World forums update...

As seen from 9th ave and 41st street....

today june 13 2005...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/36287ec1.jpg

I noticed it the other day when I was in the area, it's growing pretty quick

june 22th, taken from Film Center Building:

http://home.hetnet.nl/~tdb150881/nytimesupdates/orion.jpg

well I can live even 10 more years in the US, I'll never understand that old system :D
I just know my height, 5'10, and that a foot is 12 inches and makes 30cm.
Anyway, 183 is much better for a tower of almost 60 floors.
Anyway, back to it, on 42nd, I guess it's west of the NYTT?
There's a wall being built, we won't be able to see the ESB from uptown! :D
On the other side, the canyon is being prolonged.
In any case, it's all good
EDIT: I just saw it mentioned the adress, 9th ave, even closer to the NYTT

thought that all americans think in feet rather than meters. i even doubted that they could use the metric system :D

Here's a shot of it that was taken yesterday.

Originally posted by pianoman11686 from Wired NY.
http://images.snapfish.com/343%3C89%3A723232%7Ffp54%3Dot%3E234%3A%3D937%3D37%3B%3DXROQDF%3E23238%3C8%3B89433ot1lsi

Going up quick:

LATEST LOOK AT THE ORION

JULY 27 2005

Higher and Higher baby !!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/dd2e2e52.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/bd0f2de4.jpg

*drools* this building looks so kool, and its so tall too, i love it

Off topic, but I don't like the name at all.
I always confuse it with The Onion :|

it's turning out to be the best residential tower development ive seen in the west 42nd st area. all the other recent developments there just look too mediocre, especially that horrible black and yellow tower that looks like it's partially covered by tarp in preparation for it to be imploded.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/07/nyregion/thecity/07postal.html
Uncle Sam Sells Air Rights, and Preservationists Cringe

By JOHN FREEMAN GILL
Published: August 7, 2005

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/08/07/nyregion/07postal_lg.jpg
Keith Bedford for The New York Times

A condo tower next to the Times Square postal station obscures the McGraw-Hill Building from the west.

Two disputes in Manhattan feature a player seldom seen in such battles: the United States Postal Service.

The service has sold the air rights of two of its post offices, and the sales have attracted the scrutiny of a federal advisory council and a private preservation group.

The transfer of the air rights, from the Cooper Station in the East Village and the Times Square Station on West 42nd Street, will allow developers of adjacent properties to erect far larger buildings than they otherwise could. But both stations sit next to historic structures - St. Ann's Church on East 12th Street, now largely demolished, and the landmark McGraw-Hill Building on West 42nd Street - and the Cooper Station itself is on the National Register of Historic Places. As a result, preservationists are alarmed by the effects of these deals.

The federal agency, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, sent the Postal Service a letter last month that questioned whether it should have sold air rights without first studying the impact on historic buildings. Don L. Klima, a council official, wrote in the letter to Arthur E. Strange, the national manager of real estate for the Postal Service, that the air rights sales appeared to be actions regulated by the National Historic Preservation Act. Among other provisions, that law requires federal agencies to take into account the effects of their actions on historic properties, and sets forth procedures for consulting with the state and the public to avoid or limit harmful effects.

In response, the Postal Service said that in these two sales, it had determined that it did not have to hold such discussions. In a July 20 letter to the advisory council, Mr. Strange wrote that the air rights transfers could not by themselves have any impact on historic properties. Any impact would come only when the developer who bought the rights used them, he said.

Andrew Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, which has objected to the Postal Service's sales, faulted this reasoning. "Given that they are a public or semipublic agency, they have a responsibility not to act just like a private developer selling to the highest bidder," he said.

Behind this legal back-and-forth lie two signature city buildings, the older being St. Ann's Church, built in 1847 and 1870. Earlier this year, the Postal Service sold the air rights from its adjacent Cooper Station, on East 11th Street and Fourth Avenue, to Hudson Companies, which owns the church. Armed with the air rights and plans to put up a building of at least 20 stories, Hudson has torn down the church except for its rusticated-stone facade and tower. Hudson has not decided whether to keep those remaining structures in the planned building.

Over on West 42nd Street, the Postal Service sold the air rights from its Times Square Station to Intell Management and Investment, which combined those rights with others to permit construction of a 61-story condominium. The tower, which will be the city's sixth-tallest residential building, is now rising between Eighth and Ninth Avenues, separated from the 1930 McGraw-Hill Building by only the post office itself. The tower's frame has already grown taller than the 35-story landmark, obscuring the view of it from the west.

Robert A. Anderson, a Postal Service spokesman, said his agency was seeking further guidance because the preservation rules were open to different legal interpretations. "We're now going back to the advisory council and Don Klima," he said, "to determine how to proceed in the future and how we can satisfy everyone."

i really like this building ,maybe because it reminds me of a similar u/c miami building
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/enyers/1390brickell1fo.jpg

Massing is similar because of the angle of the renderings, but the facade treatments are very different. I prefer the much cleaner look of The Orion to the Miami tower.

Here's the Orions website:

www.orion42.com

GREAT views from the tower.

http://www.observer.com/therealestate/
Party at Orion Features Doctoroff, Potato Salad

Yesterday, Corcoran's elite brokers and executives mixed it up with a few hundred burly construction workers on the 51st floor of The Orion, Gary Barnett's recent development that will soon be the sixth-tallest residential building in the city. Guests were nervously transported up a rickety elevator to the "topping out party," an event staged when the highest point is reached during construction.

CEO Pam Liebman and new marketing COO Jeff Yamaguchi--who just arrived from Las Vegas this week--were among the real-estate big-wigs on hand.

And to let the workers know their sweat was not excreted in vain, Ms. Liebman informed the crowd that she bought one of the first apartments available. "I know where I'm going," said one brawny guy while giving his friend an elbow in the ribs.

Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff spoke, too, and received thunderous applause every time he flashed his union cred. Mr. Doctoroff enthusiastically proclaimed that New Yorkers would soon witness "one of the greatest building booms in the city's history." What West Side Stadium?

Mr. Barnett, whose Extell Development Company is popping up everywhere lately, appeared jubilant with his 60-story building topping out after breaking ground only 15 months earlier. Afterwards, he dodged a reporter's question about the M.T.A. overlooking Extell's proposal for a development in downtown Brooklyn on the spot where Bruce Ratner wants to build Stadiumland.

People came here to party, not answer uncomfortable questions!

After the speeches, brokers and starving real-estate reporters took off their bright-white hardhats and headed toward the potato salad and star-shaped brownies ("Far above the city lights, right below the stars!" read the invitation to the event). One floor below, the workers chowed down together and presented each other with various awards.

For about an hour or so, we felt some real unity. This must be what it's like to build in Des Moines!

(A note on the images: Extell actually wants you to pay to use an image of their building! Fine with us. The real Orion is more impressive anyway. But if anyone wants to send us a fair-use picture gratis, we'll put it up.)

- Michael Calderone

Posted by Tom 8/18/2005 08:26:00 AM
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An updated shot of it from the Lincoln Tunnel.

Originally posted on Wired NY by Edward
http://www.wirednewyork.com/real_estate/orion/orion_lincoln_tunnel.jpg

^
that's one interesting angle. the tower's soaring as well as the trump world tower by the looks of that pic. it should be topped out by now.

that ugly zebra building just ruin the settings of the shot though. give it a new paint job or tear it down!

That's the best shot of this building I've seen yet!

wow very nice shot!

As viewed from Times Sq.

Originally posted by TowersNYC in the Construction Updates fourms
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/uno/DSC00645.jpg

The Orion from a subway station.

Originally posted by TowersNYC in Construction Updates
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/uno/DSC00722.jpg

i just love how this building helps to enhance the old mcgraw hill building. i was worried that this tower would make mcgraw hill look shorter once it begins to rise, but the jolly green giant's actually looking taller now!

i will go as far as to say that this is the absolute best tall residential skyscraper in nyc! most other residential skyscrapers in nyc can't even be compared to this biggie.

As viewed from almost another construction project.

Originally posted by TowersNYC from Construction Updates
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/uno/DSC00778.jpg

One of its cranes are going down.

Originally posted by NYCTowers in Construction Updates
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/uno/DSC00808.jpg

Almost finished I see! Very nice building!

Skyline shot of The Orion.

Originally posted by NYguy on SSP
http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/50939482/large.jpg

http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/8276/pict0019orionucoct05facademoon.jpg

http://img274.imageshack.us/img274/9630/pict0059orionucdec05tothewestf.jpg

http://img274.imageshack.us/img274/6497/pict0060orionucdec05tothewests.jpg

the original render:
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c81/Scruffy88/Orion5.jpg

And what we ended up with:

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c81/Scruffy88/or2.jpg

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c81/Scruffy88/or3.jpg

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c81/Scruffy88/or6.jpg

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c81/Scruffy88/or5.jpg

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c81/Scruffy88/or14.jpg

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c81/Scruffy88/or9.jpg

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c81/Scruffy88/or11.jpg

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c81/Scruffy88/or10.jpg

On the whole, I am pleased with the results

Not too shabby, huh scruff? Nice shots man.

the tower lived up to its rendering well. definitely my favorite residential tower in NYC.

just a few more

9/4
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i210/Scruffy69/DSC01761.jpg

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i210/Scruffy69/DSC01755.jpg

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i210/Scruffy69/DSC01763.jpg

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i210/Scruffy69/DSC01765.jpg

and im done

No complaints, looks good.

Awesome.