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New York Projects & Construction


NYC Midtown Skyline by Manish Reddy, on Flickr


Ok so I decided to do this NYC thread.

Unfortunately for NYC, a city of skyscrapers, a lots of zonings, construction costs and NIMBY's makes it impossible to built too tall in the city. But somehow something tall gets built. And that is all good. Keep in mind that most of the construction boom in the city are conversions from existing buildings like Offices, Hotels and Rental buildings to Condominiums apartments and there is alot of under 12 floors. So I wont post anything below 12 floors here. It is too much work to keep track. I also can't find a few renderings for somewhat tall buildings under construction yet.

If anybody thinks I got the hight in feet or the floors of a building wrong or if I missed a building please let me know. If you have a rendering for a building that I don't have please let me know. I will also try to store renderings in my photo service so I can have easy access for posting them. Hope nobody minds.

I also have not listed the proposing buldings and their renderings yet. But I will do that another time. This has been alot of work and time consuming.

I am posting based on number of floors as oppose to height. Much easier for me. But there are some towers with lesser floors but are much heigher in feet. So keep that in mind.


Hopefully I did this one right and I hope you enjoy it. ;)



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Under Construction (Manhattan)
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The Freedom Tower: 82 floors - 1,776 feet



Silver Towers 1: 60 floors
Silver Towers 2: 60 floors



123 Washington Street: 53 floors - 583 feet



Bank of America Tower: 54 floors - 1,200 feet



The Saya (22 East 23rd Street): 51 floors - 617 feet



Goldman Sachs Headquarters: 43 floors - 742 ft



785 Eight Avenue: 42 floors - 566 feet



Trump Soho Hotel: 41 floors - 454 feet



The Rushmore (80 Riverside Blvd): 41 floors - 425 feet



1095 Avenue Of The Americas (Redevelopment): 40 floors - 630 feet



11 Times Square: 40 floors - 601 feet



Chelsea Stratus (735 Sixth Avenue): 40 floors - 491 feet



Hampton Inn/Candlewood Suites/Holiday Inn Express (337-343 West 39th Street): 36 floors - 360 feet



Sheraton Four Points (326 West 40th Street): 33 floors - 297 feet
Marriot Fairfield (330 West 40th Street): 33 floors - 297 feet



47 East 34th Street: 32 floors - 450 feet



510 Madison Avenue: 30 floors - 386 feet



255 East 74th Street: 30 floors - 338 feet



808 Columbus Avenue: 30 floors - 326 feet



43 East 29th Street: 30 floors



Fifth On The Park: 30 floors - 310 feet



402 East 67th Street: 30 floors



229-251 West 60th Street & West 61st Street: 27/15/10 floors



Chelsea Hotel (128 West 29th Street): 25 floors



Holiday Inn Chelsea (125 West 26th Street): 24 floors



Holiday Garden (121 West 28th Street): 24 floors



188 Ludlow Street: 23 floors - 232 feet



453 West 37th Street: 23 floors



US Mission To The UN: 22 floors



281 Broadway: 22 floors



110 Eleventh Avenue: 21 floors - 250 feet



Maiden Hotel (20 Maiden Lane): 20 floors



Linden78 (On West 78th Street): 20 floors



Avalon Morningside Park (West 110th Street): 20 floors - 204 feet



The Brompton (200 East 86th Street): 20 floors - 210 feet



Sheraton Four Points (66 Charlton Street): 20 floors - 195 feet



200 Eleventh Avenue: 20 floors



1330 First Avenue: 20 floors



Cancer Center Memorial Sloan Kettering: 20 floors



Standard Hotel (848 Washington Street): 19 floors - 233 feet


Strand Hotel (33 West 37th Street): 19 floors



Wyndham Hotel (37 West 24th Street): 18 floors



The Lucida (151 East 85th Street): 18 floors



Hilton Herald Square (59 West 39th Street): 18 floors



4 West 21st Street: 17 floors - 185 feet



Superior Ink (469 West Street): 17 floors - 190 feet



Graceline Court (West 116th Street): 16 floors - 162 feet



127 Seventh Avenue: 15 floors



10 Chelse Place: 15 floors



485 Fifth Avenue: 15 floors



East River Science Park (Complex): 15/12 floors



Columbia Northwest Science building: 14 floors



John Jay College (524 West 59th Street): 13 floors - 236 feet



245 10th Avenue: 13 floors - 125 feet



Smyth (85 Broadway): 13 floors



Chelsea Modern: 12 floors - 120 feet



127 Seventh Avenue: 12 floors



122 Greenwich Avenue: 12 floors - 128 feet





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Under Construction (Brooklyn)
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306 Gold Street: 400 ft - 40 floors
313 Gold Street: 35 floors - 367 floors



The Edge I: 40 floors
The Edge II: 30 floors



One Northside Piers (164 Kent Avenue): 29 floors - 297 feet



Forté Condos (230 Ashland Place): 28 floors - 288 feet



The Sochi (Sea Breeze Avenue): 28 floors



Be@Schermerhorn: 25 floors



Sheraton/Aloft Hotel Duffield Street: 23 floors - 244 feet



Gold Street Residential Tower: 22 floors



Bridgeview Tower: 18 floors - 216 feet



110 Livingston Avenue: 16 floors



The Edge III: 15 floors



1 Prospect Park Condos: 15 floors



100 Luquer Street: 15 floors - 184 feet



525 Clinton Avenue: 13 floors - 148 feet



The Smith: 13 floors



Novo (343-53 & 4th Avenue): 12 floors



The Argyle (410 4th Avenue): 12 floors



The Crest: 12 floors



Park Slope Court (110 4th Avenue): 12 floors





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Under Construction (Queens)
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East Coast Tower II (5th Street, 47th Avenue): 30 floors - 316 feet



East Coast Tower III (Center Boulevard): 18 floors



The Crescent Club: 17 floors



Metroplex on the Atlantic (Beach 26th Street): 15 floors



Flushing Metro Center: 15 floors



Vantage @ Purves (44-27 Purves): 14 floors - 151 feet



10-50 Jackson: 13 floors



Queens Crossing: 12 floors - 149 feet



One Hunter Point (5–49 Borden Avenue): 12 floors - 123 feet



Hunters View: 12 floors



View59 (24-16 Queens Plaza South): 12 floors





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Under Construction (Bronx)
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Riverstone (Arlington Avenue): 13 floors - 133 feet



The Towers at Hutchinson Metro Center Tower I(Waters Place): 12 floors




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Under Construction (Roosevelt Island)
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Riverwalk Place (455 Main Street): 16 floors

 
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#3,303 ·
Trinity Church Solicits Designs for Condo Tower



Trinity Church, the owner of $2 billion of real estate spread out over 14 acres in lower Manhattan, is continuing to pursue plans to redevelop its ministry offices behind the church and build a 25-story condo tower on top of them. In a move that's sure to further alienate parishioners who argue that the church spends too little of its time and money on its stated mission of philanthropy and too much on real estate dealings, Trinity has solicited designs from two architecture firms, COOK+FOX and Pelli Clarke Pelli, for the new building, which would cost $35 million. The church's vestry will decide in a meeting on July 24 whether or not move forward with the project.

The designs from COOK+FOX feature the same "biophilic" approach that the firm has favored as of late, integrating a lot of planted things into the facade as well as rooftop gardens. The facade would be made of glass and stone, with the six-story ministry building at the base constructed primarily out of glass to give it an open and welcoming feel. Pelli Clarke Pelli's design also features a glass base for the ministry, with the residential section of the tower made out of glass and metal.
COOK+FOX:

















Pelli Clarke Pelli:





 
#3,304 ·
Brookfield Begins Rail Platform Construction



As Time Warner nears a deal with Related Cos. to move its headquarters to Hudson Yards, Brookfield Office Properties has started major construction of a 120,000-square-foot deck over the Amtrak rail yard for its Manhattan West project.

Time Warner’s tentative plan to move to a new tower at Related’s site, first reported in the Wall Street Journal, would be momentous, allowing a second tower to go up that’s even larger than the one Related is building for Coach.

But, even before it lands a tenant or starts a building, Brookfield’s deck is meaningful too — the first platform over the yards between Ninth and Twelfth avenues after years of promises by both developers.

The photo above shows a just-completed temporary platform spanning the train yard from north to south on the Brookfield 5-acre site’s western edge adjacent to Dyer Avenue between West 31st and 33rd streets. Manhattan West lies slightly east of Related’s much larger site.

The temporary platform will support a “launcher” that will receive prefab concrete slabs from an adjacent staging area along the West 31st Street side. The slabs will then be assembled into 16 “bridges,” which the launcher will slide into place above the yard one at a time.

The deck is to be completed by the end of 2014.

http://nyc-architecture.com/NEW/AAGAAS35.htm
 
#3,309 ·
The Next Hot Submarket?
http://commercialobserver.com/2013/07/the-next-hot-submarket/

Human nature keeps us searching for the Next Big Thing. And when it comes to New York real estate, Lower Manhattan certainly comes to mind based on the dramatic changes underway. But there is another area farther north that has as much going on and then some – Penn Station. Of course the primary reason is the greater Hudson Yards development which is included in this Newmark Grubb Knight Frank submarket. But there are other items afoot besides that massive project.

First, let’s have a quick tutorial of this substantial Midtown South submarket. As it stands today, there are 129 buildings with 32.1 million square feet of inventory. Just over 34 percent of the inventory is considered Class A, though it consists of only eight buildings (generally the more massive ones clustered around Penn Station proper). The current availability rate is 12.7 percent. This is up from 9.8 percent in the first quarter largely due to two major additions—the entire 649,000 square feet at 330 West 34th Street as well as a 114,000-square-foot sublease at 1 Penn Plaza. Despite that increased vacancy rate, recent leasing has been robust with renewals such as Macy’s and new deals such as Shutterstock.

But it’s the future that has everyone keyed up over the Penn Station submarket. Following are a few examples:

•The greater Hudson Yards project, with new zoning in place, would allow for 26 million square feet of office space, 20,000 housing units (25 percent of those affordable), 2 million square feet of retail and 3 million square feet of hotels. WOW!

•Several developments are currently in the construction or planning phase—the first one to rise looks to be 501 West 30th Street (Related Companies’ South Tower with Coach, L’Oreal and SAP as anchors).

•The extension of the No. 7 subway line is due to open in 2Q 2014 (taking it from Times Square down to 34th Street and 11th Avenue).

•The Moynihan Station project will extend the current Penn Station with new entrances and corridor expansions; eventually new retail and office may be included in the mix.

•A new Madison Square Garden remains a long-term possibility, along with other office projects in the vicinity, including a brand new and way improved Penn Station.

So that’s the big picture stuff. For the near term, though, there has been a bit of a shake-up amongst the tenant base. The area remains the heart of the garment industry. More and more, however, there are a variety of tech/media/telecom (TMT) firms migrating north from the more expensive pockets of Midtown South.

(Compare the average asking rent of Penn Station at $47.81/sf with Flatiron/Union Square at $65.73/sf, for instance.) There is generally the same type of building stock across Midtown South but Penn Station is still missing that “cool” factor. Spurred by new projects opening over the next several years, expect that image to change—and increasing rents to follow.
 
#3,315 ·
Let's see if it's a rehash of SHoP's losing Nordstrom tower proposal:

 
#3,316 ·
No. I just heard from a very good source within a rival law frm that he's working on a transaction for a new tower designed by SHoP that will be quite tall. She wouldn't give more details.
She knows it's going to be a supertall? She seems like my kind of gal! For her in a law firm to know this kind of detail, she must be working directly with the developer.

Please keep us posted should she decide to throw a bone your way. :cheers:
 
#3,317 · (Edited)
Let's see if it's a rehash of SHoP's losing Nordstrom tower proposal:

I really liked that render! I would have been happy if that would have been Nordstrom's. Can't complain because Adrian Smith & Gordon will give NY a gem.

That would be fantastic if SHoP brings the rejected Nordstrom design back for this supertall that Robert is talking about. Would look great in Lower Manhattan.

SHoPs Nordstrom rendering reminded me of this project study designed by Uwamoto Scott:

1,300 ft tall - Edgar Street Towers:
http://www.evolo.us/architecture/edgar-street-towers-reconnect-lower-manhattan-iwamotoscott/







Wish this could have been reality.
 
#3,319 ·
I'm guessing it'll be by a part of the whole South Street Seaport redevelopment push, specifically the site of the failed Calatrava tower.
 
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