Here's one of the designs for the competition of the Harlem Park Tower located in the corner of 125th street and Park Ave, right next to the train station. It contain spaces for offices, residences, retail, and mainly a Marriott hotel. The concept was to basically make various different vertical pieces that make up the different spaces in the program and connect each other with a central vertical tower. By doing this, the people of Harlem can distinguish the different uses of the tower just by looking at the building, specially since the low-density site allows the tower to be seen from almost anywhere in the area.
Here is a rendering of the tower facing 125th street...I will try to find some more renderings and floor plans to post in here.
http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/3586/1ei5.jpg

If that's true to rendering, looks about 40 stories. Pretty good for up-up-town. :D

Yes you're right, it is about 40 stories tall making a height of 600ft. This could maybe set the pace for skyscrapers in the future for uptown Manhattan.
http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/2439/17fm9.jpg
http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/8430/15jo0.jpg

Are those the actual colours? Looks kinda tacky.

Wasn´t the Marriott Hotel at that location cancelled? Is this a new proposal?

I like it

Pretty ugly. What's with the colors? :(

They rendered it an hour before the presentation.

Do you think it's too tall for the area?

Maybe something half that height?

I like it, colors and all.

nice tower, i also like it

I like it, colors and all.
so do i. it's nice. truthfully, i really don't have a major problem with the colors.

This article was in the New York Post today:

January 10, 2007 -- THERE are stirrings and rumblings that Harlem's long-dormant 1800 Park Ave. site is springing to life.

Sources say Vornado Realty Trust - led by the dynamic Steve Roth and Michael Fascitelli - is in the middle of several tenancy agreements.

One would have Time Warner Cable relocate its headquarters from Stamford and take the office space in the base of the building.

The retail team, led in-house by Sendeep Mathrani, is also directly working with Nike Town and Bed Bath & Beyond to become the retail anchors of the proposed building.

No one from Vornado returned our calls.

As we advised last year, Vornado Realty Trust completed its agreements with previous developer Michael Caridi and his group, as well as agreements with the College of Podiatric Medicine, which owns the site and has leased it to the developers to 2051.

The 36,289-foot development site is on the west side of the Park Avenue block front from 124th to 125th Streets.

It can produce a 500,000-foot office building, and includes 126,281 feet of air rights from an adjacent property also owned by the college.

This will become the largest development in Harlem and could change the area's dynamics.

Be aware, however, that no new building plans have yet been filed with the Department of Buildings.

http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/7633/1rn6.jpg

http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/9708/1stfloorplandl3.jpg

UMM, dont really like it to many interconnecting towers, it should just be on slab, and the rendering looks kinda cheap-like if it was done an hour or 2 before being presented using sketchup

It's funky and I like it. I don't think it's too tall, 500ft would look better, but I still think this looks fine given where it is.

Nice project, this design looks very Dutch. It could also fit well in Rotterdam for example.

i prefer the old design for that spot. classier looking for the neighborhood. this one is too busy and won't fit in

Nice project, this design looks very Dutch. It could also fit well in Rotterdam for example.

yes, you're right, that's not a typical american design

Well its in Harlem one of the hearts of culture in america.

It looks very interesting. Who is the architect?

This is a wicked building! It almost looks like 5 buildings all in one. Very cool.

UMM, dont really like it to many interconnecting towers, it should just be on slab, and the rendering looks kinda cheap-like if it was done an hour or 2 before being presented using sketchup

They rendered it an hour before the presentation.

I actually like it, even though they may have rendered it an hour before the presentation. And I think making it look like multiple buildings make it up makes it look more unique than some boring solid slab.

i accidently stumbled on this thread, does any1 know the status of this tower??

still proposed

ok, thanks

i like it :) color is good

That building will be much shorter at 340 feet and 21 floors and it will look like this...


http://images.businessweek.com/story/07/popup/0718_harlem_tower_3.jpg

http://images.businessweek.com/story/07/popup/0718_harlem_tower_2.jpg

http://images.businessweek.com/story/07/popup/0718_harlem_tower.jpg

That´s not exactly an improvement :ohno:

isnt that building a proposed box or somethin in harlem??

correct :)

i think if the building was slightly less bulky it would fit in very well

yea. the height is just perfect/..

nothing nice about it... Sorry...

Does anyone know why the design was scaled back? Did the developer find the old proposal too expensive?

Too bad the old design had the be scrapped. This new one looks like a bunch of cardboard boxes poorly stacked on top of each other. I could get inspiration to design that by going in my basement...

No, this is a different project. I dont know why its in the thread. The design that is at the beginning of the thread is still the design. and its still being proposed.

^^ Acutally it is the same location. That rendering in the first page I think that it was never proposed. Somebody, maybe the tread starter created that rendering of that 40 story tower. He never place any links where he got those renderings in the first place. The ones I posted is what is getting built at 125th street and Park Avenue.

Here is a link to a source...

http://curbed.com/archives/2007/07/17/harlems_box_update_bonus_mindexploding_rendering.php

I hope that this building doesn't get built, b/c it will cause even more people to be priced out who are living there.

i think it's pretty nice... height is ok, as someone says it could reenact development of upper mannhattan...

I don't think the homies in harlem will like this

Looks ok. It's a bit bulky, it think it would have been better to build it a bit higher just so it wouldn't look too bulky.

i don't like the calour of the tower.

i don't like the calour of the tower.

http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee65/1xXFallenXx16/Funny%20stuff/000072-srslycat.jpg
dont bump a 6 month old thread without anything productive to contribute.

http://www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek07/0907/0907d_harlembldg3_b.jpg


http://www.phoenixrg.com/editors/FifthOnThePark.jpg

great renders! i really hope that tower will become reality, would be great for Harlem :)

The second renderinf is of a different building that is already going up by Marcus Garvey Park.