MAKATI | The Gramercy Residences [72F|302m|res]

[Francis20]

nice one! are you guys sure about the 73 floors? i'm pretty sure that already included the loft levels. however, 73 floors for a loft is still high. GA has 30 floors...all of which have loft levels. that makes it 60 levels. add some more height, then you have Gramercy. But some levels are not loft levels here so this can be higher than we're expecting for a 73-floor all loft condo. Ahh...nakakalito naman ito. But the good news is...this is still relatively short compared with the other towers. So we have something to look forward to in the next few years!!!

[ryanr]

Nice, very nice. Well, if this isnt all enough for us, the office towers in this project look taller than the residential towers

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In the last few days, The Gramercy Residences was identified to be the tall tower on the extreme right of the 3D rendering of Century City. The TGR was also said to be 73 floors high (this floor count includes the podium from the G/F to the 6/F). Well, that was until my first post in this thread came out.

First let me say that all this discussion about the height/number of floors of this tower is making me really dizzy (no pun intended). But we can see that there is obvious excitement about this 1st tower with some rough computations going on here and there with some disbelief among some of you guys about its real height.

Sige na, I will triple check if we had identified the correct tower among the 3 residential towers and check again how the floors from the 7/F and above are set up. Just to let you know that in GSM where I've bought a unit... lofts are counted as 2 floors and the elevator stops on the lower floor of the loft but doesn't stop on the upper floor... it skips on to the next floor.

Anyway, it's still early days naman... sales kits are just hot off the press... info is just getting out.

All right trivia time muna... Do you know that the 3 residential towers are collectively called the Trilogy? And the 3 office towers are called the Triumvirate? Hmmm... ok ba?

[Edmundtanso]

beautiful! reminds me when st francis was just announced, same excitement =)

[ryanr]

Thanks for keeping us up to date, Terence

[laquacherra]

Oooh, looks like a tall one... nice! also, i like how century has deviated from using their now familiar "SoXx" to name these projects

[Lili]

^ The developer sure likes using downtown Manhattan's districts.

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Originally Posted by Lili

^ The developer sure likes using downtown Manhattan's districts.

The Trilogy is inspired by 3 of the world's greatest cities... Paris, London and New York. The Gramercy Residences took inspiration from New York's Gramercy Park, hence the name.

[ryanr]

Originally Posted by tcchua

The Trilogy is inspired by 3 of the world's greatest cities... Paris, London and New York. The Gramercy Residences took inspiration from New York's Gramercy Park, hence the name.

So the other towers will be named after an area in Paris and London?

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Originally Posted by GreyX

So the other towers will be named after an area in Paris and London?

Yup that was the info given to me.

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As promised...

Originally Posted by tcchua

Let me discuss 2 of your major questions na rin here (even if I've already started another thread on The Gramercy Residences... para may closure na rin on this thread).



According to a project director... the tower on the right corner looks like only 1 tower but is actually made up of 3 towers and it's collectively called The Trilogy. The 1st project to rise out of the 3 towers will be The Gramercy Residences. The tower that stands right in the middle of this Century City 3D rendering is not part of The Trilogy.

Then we have the height... and yes the number of floors... let me just say that this Century City development is an ambitious project to say the least. So definitely 1 of the 3 towers in The Trilogy will rise to that targeted floor if only because they want to be the tallest and get the record period. Both Jerde Partnerships and Century would want that bragging right. If and when the time comes that the floors need to raised again... they will do that.

[six453]

i just wonder why there is such a colonial mentality on the part of the developers' to market these projects after american / foreign names.. i think it would be best if they market these with local names so as to make it a pride of the nation.

too much american influence really isnt very nice, and today's society is still as archaic as before in terms of the colonial mentality.

if any century properties personnel is here and if they are reading it, i sincerely hope that you could market these as pride of the nation and not be of whatever gramercy park inspiration cos it will never have that feel over here in manila

same goes for manhattan residences etc... these names just goes to show there is no national pride

[condo_dude]

Originally Posted by six453

i just wonder why there is such a colonial mentality on the part of the developers' to market these projects after american / foreign names.. i think it would be best if they market these with local names so as to make it a pride of the nation.

too much american influence really isnt very nice, and today's society is still as archaic as before in terms of the colonial mentality.

if any century properties personnel is here and if they are reading it, i sincerely hope that you could market these as pride of the nation and not be of whatever gramercy park inspiration cos it will never have that feel over here in manila

same goes for manhattan residences etc... these names just goes to show there is no national pride

I agree. At the very least, use an _original_ name. So many new developments in Manila try to use the names of famous places abroad. Such names make these developments look like architectural underdogs, when they are often of world class calibur and deserve their own international reputations.

[Francis20]

imo, just leave them that way. that's their strategy and they must have reasons for doing that. in contrast with Rockwell, where towers are named after local heroes.

thanks for all the info @ terrence/tcchua. please correct me if i am wrong. the Gramercy will be the one of the Trilogy on the right? however, i am quite sure that it will not be the right most tower. must be the middle of the trilogy.

[Francis20]

i did some comparisons of the photos we have so far - the Gramercy's rendering and the that of Century City.

Gramercy shows tall towers on the background. I assume these are the office tower row. Then, this makes Gramercy the leftmost of the Trilogy Row (the one on the right of the Century City rendering). Then expect the other two residential towers to be taller than Gramercy.

[six453]

i think gramercy would be the right most tower. my gut feel tells me im quite sure about it (based on renderings)

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Originally Posted by Francis20

thanks for all the info @ terence/tcchua. please correct me if i am wrong. the Gramercy will be the one of the Trilogy on the right? however, i am quite sure that it will not be the right most tower. must be the middle of the trilogy.

Confused? There are actually 3 towers of The Trilogy inside the box. If you are familiar with another Century project... Soho Central... that project looks like it is just 1 tower but in fact there are 2 - Shaw and Mayflower Towers. In The Trilogy, there are The Gramercy Residences and 2 other unnamed towers.

[Francis20]

yeah terence. thanks for the visual explanation and forgive me confusion. the question now is...which of these 3 towers is Gramercy? My bet is the leftmost tower. six453 is betting for the right most one. hehe...so which one is which? this is becoming more exciting! hehe...

[bustero]

Well assuming 3 meters for 73 floors the height is a probable 219 m. The 3 m is a good guesstimate give or take a few centimeters considering they are lofts and most of these are below 6 meters for both floors. Anyway 220 meters is quite a ways from supertall (using the 300m cutoff level we use here in skyscrapercity). Even in the unlikely event that each floor is 4 meters, We're still looking at sub 300 meters. Very tall but not super tall. Anyway I still look forward to this project.

[Francis20]

pls correct me if i'm wrong. GA has 2.8 x 2 floor to ceiling height. add the slabs. make it 6m, so your guestimate may be correct sir. so we will be having something over 200m. not bad. and the good news is, not all floors are loft types. look at the floor plans. some of them are sold as one level units, some bilevel. so this can be taller. what about 250 m?