Lower Manhattan 8/03

[Gulcrapek]

Just a few. I don't know if I should blame the quality on me or the haziness/mugginess.

2 Gold Street - not clear from this picture, but the foundation walls are fully up.

http://galleries.soaringtowers.org/albums/album20/2gold.sized.jpg

10 Liberty Street - brick started going up. It's subtle, beige stuff. Not really clear here.

http://galleries.soaringtowers.org/albums/album20/Dscf0076.sized.jpg
http://galleries.soaringtowers.org/albums/album20/Dscf0077.sized.jpg

Looks like it'll have big corner windows.

7 World Trade Center - Five or so floors. Seems like they're doing partial floors before going up to the next one, don't know why. Maybe the substation's footprint decreases as it goes up.

http://galleries.soaringtowers.org/albums/album20/Dscf0078.sized.jpg
http://galleries.soaringtowers.org/albums/album20/Dscf0079.sized.jpg

[TommyB]

The large opening in the first picture of 7 WTC is the Greenwich St. *lobby *entrance. This building is going to have a full height reinforced concrete core.

[Gulcrapek]

Yeah. I meant though that above that where it's covered, they only did some of that floor and proceeded to the next one farther down.

[matt3303]

Glad to see 2 Gold is coming along. As I remember, there were several delays on that building that kept it as an empty lot. (Or mabye I'm thinking of something else, but I think it was 2 Gold) Anyway, does anyone know the final height? I heard 48 floors.

[Gulcrapek]

51.

[BrooklynRider]

I was downtown last weekend. *2 Gold is moving quick considering the legal wranglings over the historic buildings. *10 Liberty is one of those I like to watch, just because ofthe logistical planning involved in building in a such a tight space. *All of these little lots in Lower Manhattan are being filled in like the final pieces to a puzzle. *Can't wait for 2 Gold and 7WTC to be completed. *Finally there'll additions to the Eastern Lower Manhattan Skyline!

[DominicanoNYC]

They're really taking thier time building the 7WTC. I'm ok with that because the safer the building is the better.

[Freedom Tower]

According to skyscrapers.com there is a second proposed tower for 2 Gold Street. The one u/c is 51 stories and there is a second proposed tower of 45 stories. Did anyone else hear about this or think this is a possibility? Here is a link to where I got that information: http://www.skyscrapers.com/to/en/sh/bu/index.html

[Gulcrapek]

Yeah there was an article a while ago. I'd have to see designs before I could say if I'm for another one or not.

[TLOZ Link5]

NY Times Real Estate blurb:

New $2 Million Center to Open

Information on Downtown

* An 1,800-square-foot information center is to open on Thursday at 25 Broad Street with a mission of providing everything residents, visitors and businesses want to know about Manhattan: office and store vacancies, updates on the project at the World Trade Center site, the closest Chinese restaurant to City Hall.

* "Hopefully, there will never be a question we can't answer," said Julie Menin, founder and president of Wall Street Rising, which created the center and will run it. *The organization is a nonprofit coalition of businesses, cultural institutions, residents and others, and was set up two weeks after the attacks of Sept. 11 to encourage economic development and community spirit on Chambers Street and below. *It now has 30,000 members and has raised $6.5 million for its projects.

* The new $2 million information center was designed pro bono by the Rockwell Group and Fred Schwartz Architects.

* It is to have a 12-by-9-foot three-dimensional Plexiglas model of Lower Manhattan and plasma screens listing local events. *Besides a half-dozen computers at the center, a Web site (www.downtowninformationcenter.org) is to be running on Thursday with a global information system providing coordinates of every building downtown. *All residential buildings and their contacts are to be listed on the Web site.

* The center is to have seating for up to 54 for lectures, book signings, storytelling and scavenger hunts for children. *Its hours are to be 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekends.

[Stern]

Thanks TLOZ....

One New York Place, anyone?

[TLOZ Link5]

We'll find out on Thursday, apparently.

[Stern]

Ill take dibs on it. I had already planned to visit the developer. Davis is young and an entrepreneur, but unlike architects developers take measures to protect themselves.

If I were Davis I'd be boasting of cause.

[billyblancoNYC]

Thursday?

[emmeka]

Any renderings of 10 liberty? Because I can never find any or my computor wont show them!!!

[Gulcrapek]

No.

[NyC MaNiAc]

Am I missing something? What does Davis (The creator of 1 NY Place) have to do with this center opening on Thursday? Will he be there?

[NYatKNIGHT]

September 10

2 Gold St.

http://galleries.soaringtowers.org/albums/NYatKNIGHT/2_Gold_St.sized.jpg


10 Liberty

http://galleries.soaringtowers.org/albums/NYatKNIGHT/10_Liberty.sized.jpg

[Kris]

Heartening, of course, although the designs likely stink.

[JMGarcia]

The designs more than likely stink.

[TLOZ Link5]

The architect of 10 Liberty Street is Stephen B. Jacobs, a New York-based firm whose portfolio, which includes the well-received Gansvoort Hotel in the Meatpacking District and 53 Boerum Place in Downtown Brooklyn, is mostly comprised of postmodern-style apartment buildings. He also assisted in the renovation of an office building at 299 Madison Avenue into the Library Hotel.

All photos courtesy of skyscrapers.com:

Chelsea Place, 363 West 30th Street. Year of completion not listed; 12 floors

http://www.skyscrapers.com/files/transfer/6/2002/01/138596.jpg

http://www.skyscrapers.com/files/transfer/6/2003/04/188009.jpg


Sixty Thompson Hostelry, 60 Thompson Street between Broome and Spring Streets, Soho. Completed 2001, 12 floors

(No pictures)


Hotel Giraffe, 363 Park Avenue South. Completed 1999, 12 floors

http://www.skyscrapers.com/files/transfer/6/2001/12/136062.jpg


121 Reade Street, TriBeCa. Completed 1997, 11 floors

http://www.skyscrapers.com/files/transfer/6/2003/04/187716.jpg

http://www.skyscrapers.com/files/transfer/6/2003/04/187717.jpg


Kingsley Condominiums, 400 East 70th Street. Completed 1984, 42 floors

http://www.skyscrapers.com/files/transfer/6/2003/07/206474.jpg

http://www.skyscrapers.com/files/transfer/6/2003/08/213584.jpg


We can expect something relatively nice, but I wouldn't get my hopes up for a masterpiece.

[amigo32]

Interesting architecture.

[Stern]

Welcome back amigo, I havent heard from you in a while.

[amigo32]

Thanks Stern! I've been busy and haven't had a lot of time to use the computer lately.

[Derek2k3]

There's a rendering of 10 Liberty on Glenwood's web site. It's just what you'd expect :roll:

http://www.glenwoodnyc.com/flash.htm

[JMC]

10 Liberty looks, at least, 500 ft...if you kinda count up the floors...and assume they're 8-10 ft. high...

[Gulcrapek]

Behhhhh. Boring. But I think we knew that already.

A lot of Glenwood's things look the same...

[emmeka]

I didn't expect it to look that tall. But youre right its a bit boring.

[TLOZ Link5]

It's an average-height apartment building. It's supposed to look boring.

[billyblancoNYC]

It's pretty damn close to the building next to it, though.

[TLOZ Link5]

It looks like a regular UES condo tower.

[BrooklynRider]

From New York Construction News...

Construction Boom

New Residential Buildings Slated for Battery Park City.

By Mark A. Newman

Ground will be broken in 2004 on two high-rise residential buildings in Battery Park City, with plans for breaking ground on a third in the near future.
Despite the down economy, there is a construction boom in downtown Manhattan.

By the time you read this, the Solaire, the first green high-rise in the country will be almost filled with tenants, said Anthony Woo, Battery Park City Authority's vice president of construction.

"We took a lot of the green components from other projects around the world and put them all in a single building, which has never been done before," he said. He added that the BPCA's strict guidelines have not deterred developers in the least, which is evident by new construction all over the neighborhood.

Woo said each site is work well over $100 million.

Millennium Partners won the bid on site 2A across from the Ritz Carlton in the south neighborhood for a residential building. Millennium bid for a market rate building without any type of subsidy, which is the first market rate building commissioned downtown since Sept. 11, Woo said.

Two more projects will be breaking ground in 2004: site 18B by the Albanese Organization and site 19B by Related Companies, which, along with site 2A, will all be high-rise residential buildings and will provide 984 more homes to the neighborhood.

"Battery Park City is a vibrant sub-market in the best real estate market in the world," said Steve Ross, chairman/CEO of Related Companies. "Without the authority, this site would not be nearly as successful."

Timothy S. Carey, BPCA president and CEO, said that by the end of the year, he hopes to have two more sites on the market: site 3 in the south is for a 525,000-sq.-ft. residential building - with an estimated value of $120 million to $150 million - and site 16/17 will be home to a 560,000-sq.-ft. residential building worth $150 million to $175 million.

Carey added that site 26 is available for anyone who wants to develop up to 1.8 million sq. ft. of commercial space.

He said the reason for the upswing in residential construction is because there is always a need for more apartments in Manhattan, and the Liberty Bond financing and 421A program have made it affordable and profitable for developers to build.

Buildings are not the only things being created in Battery Park City. Two new ball fields were designed by HOK Planning, construction management by The LiRo Group and general contracting by Sonic Construction, Inc. Metrotech Contracting Corp. did the lighting and electrical work. They are near completion in the north neighborhood, as is the 2.5-acreTeardrop Park designed by renowned landscape architects Valkenburgh Associates, Inc. to be reminiscent of the Hudson River Valley. Teardrop Park will open fall 2004.

Humphreys & Harding is the construction manager for Teardrop Park. The land was originally going to be used as private courtyard space, but Carey saw the four buildings at the park's corners envisioned as mountains in upstate New York so he convinced the city to rezone a portion of the neighborhood to take away a street.

The park will include a 13-ft.-high weeping blue stone wall, a reading circle and a pond where children can splash around and discover hidden treasures such as brass frogs and salamanders under some of the stones. There also will be blueberry, blackberry and raspberry bushes.

[billyblancoNYC]

BPC getting better an better. More height would be nice. Anyone know what the heights will be for these developments?

[krulltime]

The BPC area is getting very interesting...More towers...more towers..more towers!!! :P

[kliq6]

if site 26 ever gets built it will be 53 floors

[Derek2k3]

^ Thanks

Battery Park City Site 2A
Little West Street
37 stories
Gary Edward Handel & Associates
Proposed 2004-2006

Battery Park City Site 19B
Site 19B
24 stories
Dev-The Related Companies Robert AM Stern?
Proposed


Battery Park City Site 18B
Site 18B
24 stories?
Dev-Albanese Organization Robert AM Stern?
Proposed

There is a very old rendering of the 2 buildings at Ernest Burden III's web site. The design by Robert AM Stern probably just applies to 2B since the sites belong to different developers-but in the background you see that a similar design is aplied to 18B. This design has probably changed anyway.
http://www.acmedigital.com/BPC19B.html

[NYguy]

More construction photos taken Sunday 11/23


http://www.pbase.com/image/23629227/large.jpg


http://www.pbase.com/image/23629230/large.jpg


http://www.pbase.com/image/23629231/large.jpg


http://www.pbase.com/image/23629233/large.jpg


http://www.pbase.com/image/23629301/large.jpg

[Gulcrapek]

How dull... and it partially blocks CMP from the East River.

[Just Rich]

Thanks for the update NY Guy.

Mr. Typical Residential tower looks a little out of place
amongst all the Wall Street fellers.

[TLOZ Link5]

I'd say it's close to topping out. In the next few years we're going to see a lot more of these generic high-rises, mind you. We'll have to learn to love them.

[JMC]

I'll tell ya what's really outta place...when I'm walking to/from work, kickin' the cap-toe Johnson and Murphys, which are gleaming like black pearls, and some trendy chick comes sauntering from John street, walking a dog and wearing a pair of those stupid-a$$ rubber boots...with nooooo respect for what we do downtown...If you build it, they *will* come!

Oh...what's left for our austere, beloved, capitalist architecture?

:(