Construction: 640 Fifth Avenue

**NoyokA** · June 2nd, 2003, 03:09 PM

A modernist (glass) addition to an early postwar (stone) base. The combined 21 storey boutique office building starts construction offering views at a prime location.

(Edited by Stern at 7:05 pm on June 2, 2003)

**TLOZ Link5** · June 2nd, 2003, 04:04 PM

It's kind of a tiny addition, don't you think?

Any renderings?

**tugrul** · June 2nd, 2003, 05:19 PM

Wow, I thought this building was just a stump, but it did have an upper portion:

640 Fifth

**TLOZ Link5** · June 2nd, 2003, 08:29 PM

What's the reddish tower behind it with the banded windows?

**BrooklynRider** · June 3rd, 2003, 10:31 AM

I like it. *I appreciate the traditional base (and prefer that on the more formal Fifth Ave). *Yet that the avenue *is surprisingly devoid of glass as opposed to, say, Park or Sixth Avenues. *

**tugrul** · June 3rd, 2003, 01:23 PM

Quote: from TLOZ Link5 on 8:29 pm on June 2, 2003
What's the reddish tower behind it with the banded windows?

The Piaget Building

The only way I know this is that I have this nifty map of the city that has building plots marked up with addresses. So I found 640 and looked at the plot just north of it, 650. Then skyscrapers.com's search does the rest.

I just happened across this map in my book shelf, does anyone know of an online source of such a map?

**TLOZ Link5** · June 3rd, 2003, 05:38 PM

Thanks, tugrul. *BTW, that second pic you posted isn't showing up for me--at least not on this computer. *I know it's some kinda rendering of the new tower, but still...

**tugrul** · June 4th, 2003, 12:53 AM

Quote: from TLOZ Link5 on 5:38 pm on June 3, 2003
Thanks, tugrul. *BTW, that second pic you posted isn't showing up for me--at least not on this computer. *I know it's some kinda rendering of the new tower, but still...

Heh, I had originally saved it as a png... put up a jpg now, should work.

**TLOZ Link5** · June 4th, 2003, 08:30 PM

I see it now. *Thanks.

**NYatKNIGHT** · July 15th, 2003, 11:41 AM

Topped out, or close to it.

**Gulcrapek** · July 15th, 2003, 12:49 PM

Looks good.

**billyblancoNYC** · July 15th, 2003, 02:07 PM

An entire tower clad like that would be pretty nice, too.

**TLOZ Link5** · July 15th, 2003, 07:31 PM

Especially if it were several stories taller.

**Gulcrapek** · January 26th, 2012, 04:25 PM

Hate to be the first post in eight years... but I like this addition. The glass is sharp.

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**DUMBRo** · January 26th, 2012, 09:08 PM

Very handsome glass addition.

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