Reply With QuoteI am really glad to see that you guys like the new facade of 330 Madison Avenue. It has been a long and logistically challenging project so far and we still have a ton of work to go but in the end it will be worth it.
Great photos, Derek. I walked by recently and was very pleased with how this is turning out.
I am really glad to see that you guys like the new facade of 330 Madison Avenue. It has been a long and logistically challenging project so far and we still have a ton of work to go but in the end it will be worth it.
If you worked on this, then great job! It's WAY better than 1095 6th (i.e., the Gumby Tower) and 350 Madison. This looks great.
I agree as someone who works across the street I greatly appreciate it.
Thanks. Been on this project since 2007 during design stages and it is good to see that some folks appreciate the work. I also ran the 100 Park Ave. reclad and ran the facade Cooper Union's new building on 3rd and 7th. I prefer the reclads and unique facades like Cooper than the cookie cutter condo towers I have been involved with in past. There are a lot more reclads in the works as the owner/ developers are really looking to upgrade their existing buildings instead of investing major dollars digging new holes.
Wow you worked on Cooper Union? That building cladding is amazing. In my perfect New York NYU would get into a design competition with all the other schools downtown and everything would end up looking as cool as Cooper Union. Unfortunately we see more Fiterman Hall fake-brick cladding than Coopper Union mind-bending cladding.
Nice glass. Dead flat and monolithic looking. No 'fun house mirror' effect you get with the cheaper grade glass - nice work.
One of the reasons the glass is a lot flatter with the larger units is that the outboard lite is 3/8" thick instead of the standard 1/4". This way you avoid a lot of the roller wave and pillowing distortion from the heat treating. The manufacturer, Viracon has extremely high QC for their glass which exceed most industry standards.
The layout for those panels was painful but in the end it all worked out. The entire facade was modeled first then all of the details and connection points were extracted and put on a x,y,z axis off setback lines. In the perfect world you are correct, there would be a lot more of the CU facades but most developers are not risk takers and will stick to what they know and that is the "glass box tower". Not that there is anything wrong with that as we know Philip Johnson gave us that art form which still lives today.
Wonder what comes after this era of plain silver/blue glass.
260 and 261 Madison desperately need facelifts like this.
Lookin good.
It looks great.
Perhaps the top floor could retain its original curtain wall design, to provide a historical nod and distinguish this building from the many other glass boxes throughout midtown.
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