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September 21st, 2013, 04:40 AM
#46
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September 21st, 2013, 11:15 AM
#47
Crabby airline hostess -
So this is a proposed design, subject to approval?
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September 21st, 2013, 04:03 PM
#48
Yep. I don't think they're allowed to put up a new building of this size without the rezoning or a special approval. They would have filed an alteration permit if they were going with the original plan of demolishing down to the lower floors and rebuilding above.
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September 21st, 2013, 07:11 PM
#49
Crabby airline hostess -
Ok my bad. I assumed that rendering was for the original plan.
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October 3rd, 2013, 11:01 PM
#50
I like this building.
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October 4th, 2013, 12:09 AM
#51
Crabby airline hostess -
I'm not crazy about the base.
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October 4th, 2013, 08:05 AM
#52
For Lofter
I like the shape but hate the cladding. If the rezoning passes, I wonder if there will be a new design or if Foster will just add another tier to this.
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July 28th, 2014, 10:38 AM
#53
The building as of July 26, 2014
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February 4th, 2015, 04:46 AM
#54
NYC Aficionado from Oz
Park Avenue Is About to Get Something It Hasn’t Seen in 40 Years
After decades in deep freeze, New York's sacred avenue is about to get a new skyscraper
by David M Levitt
Sometime next week, a metal frame will go up around the blocky brick tower at Manhattan’s 425 Park Ave., designed to protect pedestrians from falling objects. It’s a prelude to the building’s demise.
In about three years, if all goes according to plan, the site will have a new Norman Foster-designed skyscraper more than twice the height of the existing one. The replacement would be the first new office building in almost four decades on what the developer, David Levinson, called New York’s “grand boulevard of commerce.”
425 Park Ave.
The 893-foot (272-meter) tower will rise amid Manhattan’s biggest rush of skyscraper construction since the 1980s, with millions of square feet of offices in such projects as Hudson Yards on the far west side and the World Trade Center downtown. Levinson is building “on spec,” meaning without any tenants signed up. It’s a gamble on the staying power of today’s accelerating demand for space, and a practice that’s had a checkered history in the city, said Lawrence Longua, a retired real estate professor at New York University.
“Obviously, when you begin one of these large New York office buildings, the market is there when you begin it,” said Longua, now an adjunct at Baruch College’s Newman Real Estate Center. “But the market may not be there when you complete it.”
The new Park Avenue skyscraper, between East 55th and 56th streets, will be narrower than the existing 1950s-era building, and have about the same 670,000 square feet (62,000 square meters) of floor space. The developers are touting it as a 21st century answer to the neighboring Seagram Building, which was hailed as an architectural masterwork upon its 1958 completion.
Glass Tower
Plans call for the existing 425 Park, a commonplace stack of white-brick boxes, to be replaced by a 47-story glass tower with three distinct sections. Slanted glass will mark the transitions between the base and the middle, and middle and top sections. The bottom floors will extend over the 45-foot-high lobby, creating offices that will seem to float over Park Avenue.
425 Park Ave. Sky Garden
Full article at Bloomberg
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April 3rd, 2015, 04:26 PM
#55
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May 26th, 2015, 02:06 AM
#56
25 May 2015
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May 28th, 2015, 01:30 PM
#57
Forum Veteran
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June 18th, 2015, 03:21 PM
#58
Senior Member
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June 19th, 2015, 11:59 AM
#59
Forum Veteran
I wish all sidewalk sheds across the city could be this respectful.
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June 20th, 2015, 05:02 PM
#60
Senior Member
Seriously! I actually stood there for a few seconds admiring its robustness.
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