NEW YORK | Bank Of America Tower | 1,200' Pinnacle / 945' Roof | 53 FLOORS

[Spooky873]

is there a timeline anywhere for this?

[Jularc]

From the top of the Empire State Building. March 1, 2006:


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[JACKinBeantown]

Good to see steel rising on the tower. Yeah, it's 50 feet under ground, but at least it's rising.

[NYguy]

That photo reminds me, we'll get a great view of the recladding of the Verizon from up there...

[NYguy]

ny times

MANHATTAN: BANK EXPANSION A SIGN OF GROWING PRESENCE
March 3, 2006

In a sign of how financial institutions are rapidly expanding their footprint in New York, Bank of America agreed yesterday to add 522,000 square feet to the space it has already leased in a tower under construction at 42nd Street and the Avenue of the Americas, the developer Douglas Durst said yesterday.

The new lease increases the bank's space in the 51-story Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park by a third, giving it a total of 1.6 million square feet, or 77 percent of the building.

The bank and Mr. Durst are partners in the $1 billion project, which is scheduled to be completed in February 2008. The financial industry signed leases for 4.2 million square feet in Manhattan last year, according to the brokerage firm Cushman & Wakefield. TERRY PRISTIN (NYT)

[Fabb]

which is scheduled to be completed in February 2008.

23 months to go.
I can hardly wait.

[GFSNYC]

Impressive, a building like this is already 77% full... if only BoA had an idea of their growth prior to finalization, we very well could've had this tower go about 10 stories higher. I also think that this particular building has the highest price per sq/ft in the city (rightfully so), and it may make a good business case for "green" office buildings.

This just goes to show that tall 'scrapers in NYC are not overblown publicity or vanity projects but a necessity for companies.

[NYguy]

This just goes to show that tall 'scrapers in NYC are not overblown publicity or vanity projects but a necessity for companies.


That's true, even as critics say there's no need for new WTC towers....

[Spooky873]

at least NYTimes will be up long before this one is.

[NYguy]

at least NYTimes will be up long before this one is.


True, but it will be half empty.

[Spooky873]

i see it as half full.....

[Lecom]

the view that's now gone

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[Spooky873]

it was the biggest construction block available right? (obviously besides wtc)

[NYguy]

it was the biggest construction block available right? (obviously besides wtc)

In Midtown proper, yes. It was actually two sites, with one site in the middle that required condemnation by the state to consolidate the sites. Similar to the Times site.

[Spooky873]

so this thing is in full swing now?

[CarlosV]

yes

[CarlosV]

i will take some photos today

[CarlosV]

AS OF TODAY WEDNESDAY MARCH 8, 2006, NYC



;) DANGEROUS CURVES !!!!! MMMHUMM STRAIGHT EDGES !!!





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:cheers:
the tower portion is getting an erection now!! finally :)

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[Spooky873]

more amazement

[JACKinBeantown]

:cheers:
the tower portion is getting an erection now!! finally :)


Uh, I'm not going to touch that one. :whip:

[CarlosV]

HA HA HA i love to see steel getting erected at the site....



AS OF TODAY WEDNESDAY MARCH 8, 2006, NYC



;) DANGEROUS CURVES !!!!! MMMHUMM STRAIGHT EDGES !!!





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:cheers:
the tower portion is getting an erection now!! finally :)

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[NYguy]

It already has that massive presence...

[STERNyc]

Since this building will have a concrete core, real progress wont be seen unto we start to see a concrete cenral core. I have lost interest in this project due to the lack of visible progress on the tower.

[JACKinBeantown]

I hope your lost interest is temporary. I haven't lost interest... it's just on hold.

[STERNyc]

I hope your lost interest is temporary. I haven't lost interest... it's just on hold.

I will regain my interest when the tower visually starts to rise, maybe in another month. At first many of us thought BOFA and NYTIMES would rise hand and hand almost like twins now we'll have another project to watch as NYTIMES finishes.

[Fabb]

it's just on hold.

Don't say that. Some people might have a heart attack.

[NYguy]

Its not on hold. There's enough visible progress to keep interests.

Either way, we've gone from waiting for a McDonalds to close on the site, to waiting for demolition, to seeing nothing on the site, to finally seeing steel actually rise. I call that progress.

It wasn't too long ago that all we had to see above street level were the cranes:

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All that is left to do is sit back and watch the construction. No waiting for demolitions, or renderings, or approvals, or tenants. Unlike the Freedom Tower or the Gehry tower, its already happening. That's all you can ask for in a project, and I'm satisfied.

[Lecom]

November 2003, looking through the hole where the tower will soon rise

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[JACKinBeantown]

Don't say that. Some people might have a heart attack.

LOL. I was talking about my interest being on hold until this thing really gets rising... which it finally is. :banana:

[NYguy]

MARCH 12, 2006

Rainy day in the city...

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Steel slowly marches to 6th Ave...

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[NYguy]

(ny post)

BOFA GETS NEW LEASE

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March 14, 2006 -- Realty Check


INSATIABLE Bank of America just scooped up three more floors at Douglas Durst's 1133 Sixth Ave., across the road from where Durst's and BofA's joint-venture One Bryant Park is rising on the avenue between 42d-43d streets.

The new, 67,000 square-foot lease, signed within the past few days, seems a drop in the bucket compared to the 522,000-foot chunk the bank recently took at its new, $1 billion headquarters, on top of 1.1 million feet it had earlier pre-leased.

But while the new building won't open until 2008, BofA plans to move immediately into the extra floors at 1133 Sixth.

"They already had two floors there, 39 and 40, which they inherited from Fleet," said Durst leasing chief Tom Bow. "Now they've signed for 17, 42 and 43 as well."

Online database mrofficespace.com lists the asking rent on the 17th floor as $58 a foot, and, in the tower-topping 42nd and 43rd, $70 a foot.

But how much is BofA paying at One Bryant Park, which it will jointly own with Durst?

After the bank originally signed for floors 2-24 - the deal that got the long-planned skyscraper out of the ground - Durst said he expected rents of $100 and up for the remaining, higher floors. Two weeks ago, the bank added floors 25-36 and 51, the top. Asked about rent, Bow would say only, "the whole deal is very complicated," adding, "BofA did take the top of One Bryant Park. Rest assured we easily achieved Doug's objective."

Since BofA is a part owner of the tower, whatever it's paying is being paid partly to itself.

BofA was repped by Jones Lang LaSalle's John Ryan III along with JLL regional president Peter Riguardi.

BofA currently has around 2 million square feet in Midtown, including blocks at 9 W. 57th St., 40 W. 57th, 1673 Broadway and 1185 Sixth.

Meanwhile, work is speeding up on 1 Bryant Park. Its western half is going up first because "that's where BofA's mission-critical facilities will be, their trading operations," Bow said.

[CoolCzech]

There is SO much demand for space in NYC, and we've got the Mayor running around saying the Commercial Real Estate Sky is Falling on Lower Manhattan... I wonder if Bloomie isn't so eager to sell the idea that lower Manhattan can't ever prosper again like Mid-Town is doing at this very minute because he wants to keep rents high in his OWN tower?

[NYguy]

I wonder if Bloomie isn't so eager to sell the idea that lower Manhattan can't ever prosper again like Mid-Town is doing at this very minute because he wants to keep rents high in his OWN tower?


Bloomberg had so little to say about lower Manhattan, and ground zero in particular, until after Silver killed the westside stadium deal. Bloomberg now seems intent on sticking it to Silver (witness the withdrawal of funds for a school in Ratner's planned 75-story tower). I'm sure Bloomberg knows more than anyone that Downtown needs the WTC commercial space (hell, he's planning 3 times as much for the westside). Residential towers are going up all around ground zero, yet Bloomberg wants to squander Downtown's last remaining site on residential space.

[NYguy]

MARCH 17, 2006

The rise on 6th Avenue continues...


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[Hoodrat]

Nice photo's everyone...

I'm still excited about this one.

[Spooky873]

second tallest in the city now only has no way to go but up.

[NYguy]

posted at curbed...

One Bryant Park Gets Its Growth Spurt


Earlier this year, the cool kids were all laughing at One Bryant Park, the little stump that could. No longer. A tipster with a bird's eye view reports on the future home of Bank of America and waterless urinals: "Within weeks the entire eastern view of Conde Nast [whose headquarters are at 4 Times Square] will be obliterated...That would suck for them because their view is nice — the park, the Chrysler Building in the distance, etc. These guys are building out an entire floor every few days!" Mm, that would suck.


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[Spooky873]

nice angle

[CarlosV]

RISE BABY RISE !!!! Finally as I predicted the tower steel is erected!!! :)

:tup: :banana: :worship: :yes: :) ;) :D :cheers: :rolleyes:


Street level...no more hole :whip:

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future retail space....

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[ltsmotorsport]

:banana:

[Spooky873]

daaaaamn right

[NYguy]

philadelphis inquirer

Of urinals, plumbers and a backseat to N.Y.
Sun, Mar. 19, 2006

By Inga SaffronInquirer
Architecture Critic

The 58-story Comcast Center rising over 17th Street is already destined to be Philadelphia's tallest and most environmentally friendly skyscraper. But its developer, Liberty Property Trust, dreams of claiming an even more prestigious title: America's tallest green building. Unfortunately, the city's quest for national glory may go down the drain of a waterless urinal.

The local plumbers union is blocking Liberty's plan to install no-flush, water-saving urinals in the men's rooms at the Comcast Center. Without them, the finished skyscraper would guzzle an extra 1.6 million gallons of water a year, and Liberty could have trouble obtaining a coveted seal of approval from the U.S. Green Building Council.

If the 975-foot Comcast Center fails to win the council's certification, the title of tallest green building will fall instead to New York's 962-foot Bank of America Tower, going up across from Manhattan's Bryant Park - complete with waterless urinals. Once again, New York wins. And all because it has better toilets.

Edward Keenan, the head of Local 690, which represents plumbers in Philadelphia and its suburbs, did not return phone calls for this story. But those involved in the urinal debate say the plumbers object to the waterless devices because they require less labor to install than the traditional kind.
The city's building code has no provision for waterless urinals, an innovation that has come into use in the last five years. And because the plumbers are so opposed to the technology, Philadelphia officials are reluctant to introduce its use in the city.

"We're still looking into this. I want to make sure they're safe," said Robert D. Solvibile Sr., who runs Philadelphia's Department of Licenses and Inspections, the agency that enforces the city's building code. "We're afraid that if they're not properly maintained, dangerous gases could come into the room and harm people."

"Dangerous?" laughed Douglas Durst, the developer of the Bank of America Tower, when told of Solvibile's concerns. "We've had them in our offices for four years. If they're dangerous, we haven't noticed."

Indeed, waterless urinals are found in dozens of buildings around the country, including at Walt Disney World and in an elementary school in Pittsburgh. Not only are they considered safe, they also are more sanitary and less odoriferous than the standard kind, said Gwyn Jones, a spokeswoman for the Green Building Council in Washington, a volunteer group that establishes environmental building standards. Urine passes through a chemical cartridge in the porcelain basin, which processes the solids and allows the liquids to flow by gravity into the building's plumbing system. Traditional urinals pour 1.6 gallons of water down the drain with every flush.

Even the state government is a fervent convert to the waterless bowls. The city's reluctance to approve the technology "really flies in the face of what we're preaching," complained Harry Rummel, a real estate manager for Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection. He has approved the urinals in nearly a dozen state buildings, including the agency's new Norristown offices.

"You're not putting plumbers out of work," Rummel insisted. "The urinals still need a drain. You're just using less water. It's a no-brainer."

Liberty Property Trust, which has built more than 700 office buildings, including Liberty Place in Philadelphia, has become one of the nation's leading proponents of green technology. It recently won a gold rating - the second highest - from the Green Building Council for an eight-story office project in Allentown. That building has used waterless urinals without incident since it opened in 2003. Like the Comcast Center, it was designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects.

"We're pretty convinced as a company that waterless urinals are a good technology," said John Gattuso, the Liberty vice president responsible for building the Comcast Center.

Gattuso said he was still hoping that Solvibile and the plumbers union would reverse their stand on the urinals, but time is running out. Although Liberty has just begun to erect the Comcast Center's concrete elevator-and-stair core, it needs to put in its order for urinals soon, so they are delivered in time for the tower's scheduled opening in September 2007.

"It's a terrible situation. Here's a private developer trying to do the right thing, and they're hitting a roadblock," said Robert Diemer, who chairs the board of the Delaware Valley Green Building Council. "This is an important project for Philadelphia. The city needs to take a leadership role."

Philadelphia's powerful trade unions, which contribute heavily to political campaigns, have long called the shots on various building issues. During the years that the Zoning Board of Adjustment was run by Tom Kelly, head of the Sheetmetal Workers Union, he insisted that even modest construction projects have central air-conditioning rather than less-costly window units. No city code requires a central-air system, which is connected by expensive metal ducts.

Ironically, the Philadelphia Water Department has been looking for ways to reduce the water flowing into the city's overburdened sewer system. After a heavy rain, the city must often release untreated sewage into the Delaware River. "Waterless urinals would certainly be in line with our sustainable goals," said Glenn Abrams, the department's urban watersheds planner.

Yet Liberty was denied permission to install them in a four-story office building that was just completed at the Navy Yard. Even without the urinals, Gattuso said, he expects the Navy Yard building to receive the Green Building Council's gold rating.

It's not as easy for a skyscraper to be green, however. Sheathed in vast expanses of glass - usually trucked in from far away - office towers consume tremendous amounts of energy for heating and cooling.
To compensate for their inherent wastefulness, developers must employ a variety of energy-saving technologies to win a rating from the Green Building Council. In recent years, the council's ratings have become a mark of status, helping developers to attract tenants in a competitive office market.

For a developer, winning the highest rating - platinum - is the equivalent of an author being picked for Oprah's Book Club. Companies gravitate toward green buildings because their energy costs generally run about 45 percent below normal. Employers also believe that green buildings have cleaner air, which helps reduce the number of employee sick days.

Even if Solvibile and the plumbers reject Liberty's request to install waterless urinals, the Comcast Center will still be a very efficient building. The tower will get points from the Green Building Council for its heat-deflecting solar windows, a large, rain-absorbing planted "green" roof, and a highly efficient heating and cooling system. No doubt, the council will also give Liberty credit for reusing an urban site and connecting its building to the Suburban Station transit hub.

But the question is, will those points be enough to win Comcast an unqualified green rating? The 51-story Bank of America Tower that Durst is building is fully loaded with virtually every approved green technology, including a cogeneration plant that will produce 80 percent of its energy and a system to recycle rainwater for flushing traditional toilets. The building is only 945 feet without its spire, but it may be substantially greener than the 975-foot-tall Comcast Center.

Like Gattuso, Durst had to mount an extensive education campaign. But once he explained that no-flush urinals would reduce the building's water consumption by millions of gallons a year, New York City building code officials eagerly embraced the technology, he said. New York suffers frequent droughts and is desperate to reduce its water use.

"We're going for a platinum rating," Durst said.
Gattuso said he wasn't sure what rating the Comcast Center would get.

So far, no news has leaked out.

[Spooky873]

I like this depiction:

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[NYonward]

NY Times
March 20, 2006

The View From There: Beautiful and Doomed

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Workers in the offices of The New Yorker in the Condé Nast Building have enjoyed their view east, but won't for much longer; a 54-story tower is rising next door.

By JOSEPH BERGER
Day by dispiriting day, senior writers and editors at The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and other Condé Nast magazines and top lawyers at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom are watching one of the perks of their Manhattan careers getting slowly gobbled up — the view.

Like most New Yorkers, they live with the knowledge that a view in Manhattan is a perishable commodity, but for them the time left is achingly short.

A 54-story tower for the Bank of America is rising floor by inexorable floor next to their daytime home — the 48-story Condé Nast Building, at 42nd Street and Broadway. Right now the bank structure is just a monkey-bars of steel beams,a half-dozen floors at best. But over the next year or two, employees on the eastern side of Condé Nast will find themselves staring right into the face of a glass and aluminum office building and its honeycomb of worker bees.

"I'm on the 21st floor, and I have a beautiful view of Bryant Park and the library and a little corner of the Chrysler Building and the Pan Am Building, now the MetLife, and I get tons of sun," said Jeffrey Toobin, a staff writer for The New Yorker. "Soon it's going to be a view of some law firm associate doing his work. My view will be entirely swallowed."

Bruce Handy, a senior articles editor at Vanity Fair, who grew up among the sweeping vistas of California, had been delighted with the cinemascopic views out of his 22nd-floor office. "There'll be a little less uplift for the soul," he lamented.

The loss of views is an archetypal New York story. Except for residents lucky enough to be on Central Park or the Hudson or East Rivers, every Manhattanite understands that sunlight and views are fleeting on a restless island whose anatomy is forever shifting.

As it was going up in the late 1990's, the Condé Nast building also broke its share of hearts. With a real estate market that barely seems to pause for breath, a taller building — usually residential these days — is always threatening to rise somewhere and eclipse someone's views.

But the fact that it is an old story is no consolation to those who suffer another narrowing in an already constricted island. Mark Singer, a colleague of Mr. Toobin's at The New Yorker, knows this in spades. New construction is rising not only at his workplace, but also near his home on the Upper East Side.

"We all live in various states of denials, so until the view is gone, you don't quite appreciate what's going to be missing," he said.

That perspective was echoed by David Friend, the editor of creative development at Vanity Fair, whose office is on the 22nd floor. "We're so busy that we take the view for granted sometimes, and it's like the old Joni Mitchell song, 'You don't know what you've got till it's gone,' " he said.

The developer Douglas Durst, who completed Condé Nast seven years ago and expects to complete the Bank of America building in 2008, told the tenants that above the seventh floor the bank tower would be set back 200 feet, greater than the distance across Avenue of the Americas or 42nd Street. Moreover, he said, the tower curves as it rises, allowing more sunlight to penetrate.

"We angled the building so that light will get through," he said. "And they're not going to have views directly east, but they'll still have views from the building."

Steven Spinola, president of the Real Estate Board of New York, pointed out that Manhattan is an island of skyscrapers partly because people want phenomenal views. But he said the loss of views caused by a single building was balanced by the thousands of jobs created for office occupants and by the taxes those employees would pay.

"Someone will have lost something, but on the other hand the city has gained," he said.

Right now, top lawyers at Skadden, Arps on the upper floors have views that embrace everything from the Triborough Bridge to the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and that bespeak the power of a firm with 1,750 lawyers. While the views of Condé Nast employees may not be as breathtaking, they have the urban charm of elegant buildings framing a small park mixed in with a touch of street razzle-dazzle, charm any writer can appreciate.

The loss of views is not without its entertainments. East-facing tenants have been watching a mesmerizing, sometimes heart-stopping show: three construction cranes performing a ballet of swiveling, swaying, soaring grappling hooks.

"The hook of the crane comes so close to my window that I'm convinced it's going to break through and drag me to my death," said Mr. Toobin, who is best known for his calm and measured analyses of the nation's biggest legal contests. "It's so close you could read an index card placed on the hooks."

Perri Dorset, director of public relations for The New Yorker, said she has had a front-row seat on a New York extravaganza usually shielded from passers-by by high fences.

"I'm living in this concrete jungle and you see buildings being built all the time, but it was pretty amazing to see how a foundation is put together," she said.

She and Mr. Toobin also know that this is a temporary treat that will disappear with the poignant eclipse of their precious views. Yet they greet the problem with a New Yorker's fatalism.

"It's going to be unbelievably depressing to lose our views and light, but in New York it comes with the territory," Ms. Dorset said. "I've been lucky to have the view I've had."

Mr. Toobin said, "It's unseemly to complain about this kind of thing because it's how Manhattan life works.

"I don't have a conventionally beautiful view," he went on. "I don't overlook water or famous buildings. But it's a perfect New York cityscape of buildings of different sizes with plenty of sky, and I'll be sorry to see it go."

[LordSidious]

Interesting article. But this is really a luxury problem in Manhattan. Even when 1 Bryant Park will be completed, there are millions of office workers who would envy the guys from Condé Nast building for their views.
As the article says, the Condé Nast building has also taken away the views from other buildings when it was built. That's how it works.

Anyway, it must be amazing to see such a skyscraper rising next door.

[NYguy]

posted at curbed...

One Bryant Park Gets Its Growth Spurt

A tipster with a bird's eye view reports on the future home of Bank of America and waterless urinals: "Within weeks the entire eastern view of Conde Nast [whose headquarters are at 4 Times Square] will be obliterated...That would suck for them because their view is nice — the park, the Chrysler Building in the distance, etc. These guys are building out an entire floor every few days!" Mm, that would suck.


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Now suddenly everyone feels sorry for the folks at Conde Naste, lol


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Workers in the offices of The New Yorker in the Condé Nast Building have enjoyed their view east, but won't for much longer; a 54-story tower is rising next door.

Oh well, such is the life of the Manhattan office worker...

[NYguy]

Anyway, it must be amazing to see such a skyscraper rising next door.


At least that's how some see it...

The loss of views is not without its entertainments. East-facing tenants have been watching a mesmerizing, sometimes heart-stopping show: three construction cranes performing a ballet of swiveling, swaying, soaring grappling hooks.

"The hook of the crane comes so close to my window that I'm convinced it's going to break through and drag me to my death," said Mr. Toobin, who is best known for his calm and measured analyses of the nation's biggest legal contests. "It's so close you could read an index card placed on the hooks."

Perri Dorset, director of public relations for The New Yorker, said she has had a front-row seat on a New York extravaganza usually shielded from passers-by by high fences.

"I'm living in this concrete jungle and you see buildings being built all the time, but it was pretty amazing to see how a foundation is put together," she said.

[CHAPINM1]

Is the core concrete? I haven't seen a core rise during construction. Also is the shorter building attached to the BofA and next to the Conde Nast building supposed to be a parking ramp? It appears that that part is topped out and is 7 floors. Also, does it actually touch the Conde Nast building? Just wondering, thanks in advance! I'm new to the forum and this project in particular leaves me with a lot of questions. Last time I was in NYC they just started construction and it was a big hole in the ground.

[STERNyc]

Is the core concrete? I haven't seen a core rise during construction. Also is the shorter building attached to the BofA and next to the Conde Nast building supposed to be a parking ramp? It appears that that part is topped out and is 7 floors. Also, does it actually touch the Conde Nast building? Just wondering, thanks in advance! I'm new to the forum and this project in particular leaves me with a lot of questions. Last time I was in NYC they just started construction and it was a big hole in the ground.

Reports were that the core would be concrete however on a recent visit to the site, steel beams were poking out for the tower and there was no evidence of a concrete core. Usually a concrete core would rise before the steel, although with this tower nothing surprises me. Additionally theres still a big portion of exposed bathtub with no steel rising on the east side of the site. This building has me really perplexed.

One question I can answer is whether or not this building touches Conde Nast, no it does not. There's a rule in NYC that new buildings must be seperated by atleast 6 inches in the case of an earthquake. This building looks to be seperated by Conde Nast by atleast 6 inches and as much as foot.

[rds989]

Man, the Conde Nast building is gross. At least OBP will cover it up from one angle.

[banned]

Reports were that the core would be concrete however on a recent visit to the site, steel beams were poking out for the tower and there was no evidence of a concrete core. Usually a concrete core would rise before the steel, although with this tower nothing surprises me. Additionally theres still a big portion of exposed bathtub with no steel rising on the east side of the site. This building has me really perplexed.
I thought I read that in NYC steelworkers will not work below concrete workers. 7WTC has a concrete core, but the steel framework went up before the core, which is different than how it usually works. This doesn't answer whether or not it will have a core, just that it may, even if steel rises first.

[CHAPINM1]

Thanks guys! I was 99% sure that the buildings didn't and couldn't touch, but I just needed a second opinion, I guess time will see how this one keeps being built, I bet it will have a steel core which will go up later on like 7WTC...

[CoolCzech]

There's a rule in NYC that new buildings must be seperated by atleast 6 inches in the case of an earthquake. This building looks to be seperated by Conde Nast by atleast 6 inches and as much as foot.

- Holy Smokes! So this guy is going to have that view replaced with a window about 10 inches away from HIS? He won't even get daylight coming in...

Maybe he should consider having a giant monitor with a live cam view put over it :haha:


http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/03/20/nyregion/20conde.large1.jpg

[NYonward]

^ The low-rise portion of the BoA tower will be next to that building, so it will not be inches from that window.

[Fabb]

That's what I was thinking.
So, how low is the low-rise going to be ?

[CoolCzech]

Man, the Conde Nast building is gross. At least OBP will cover it up from one angle.

- Can't say I disagree much, but the building IS arguably one of the more "progressive" buildings to be put up in NYC in years. It was supposedly very influential in Europe.

[CoolCzech]

Man, the Conde Nast building is gross. At least OBP will cover it up from one angle.

- Can't say I disagree much, but the building IS arguably one of the more "progressive" buildings to be put up in NYC in years. It was supposedly very influential in Europe.

[Lecom]

Too bad for Conde Nast. If they really valued their views so much, they would have done some research (or at least common sense reasoning) beforehand and would have NIMBYied against the proposed building.

[Zerton]

^ what's weird is the same architect designed both buildings

[CarlosV]

March 24, 2006

And the Lord said....RISE MOTHER RISE !!!!!!! " :)


future Trading floors !!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/2006/DSC01411.jpg



:bash:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/2006/DSC01412.jpg







http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/2006/DSC01413.jpg







http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/2006/DSC01415.jpg




:yes:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/2006/DSC01414.jpg

[banned]

Too bad for Conde Nast. If they really valued their views so much, they would have done some research (or at least common sense reasoning) beforehand and would have NIMBYied against the proposed building.
Huh? Both buildings are developed/owned by the same company.

[CarlosV]

:jester: Word !!! these towers are SISTERS !!!

[Daquan13]

Note the outer steel columns centered in pic#'s 3 & 4.

The large ones with look like the ends are bent outward. Aren't those TUBULAR columns? They look somewhat similar to the ones that were used in the construction of the former Twin Towers.

[CoolCzech]

:jester: Word !!! these towers are SISTERS !!!

- Except BOFA is a much nicer design, IMO: we are fortunate that the BOFA will eclipse the Conde Naste from Bryant Park, and not the other way around.

[Spooky873]

i cant wait for some cladding

[CarlosV]

^ U and your damn cladding!!

This is the best part ...the skeleton...pretty soon I will lose interest in the NYT tower....the "cladding" is awful

[CHAPINM1]

On the NYT Tower it's definetly different then any other I've ever seen.

[Spooky873]

^ U and your damn cladding!!

This is the best part ...the skeleton...pretty soon I will lose interest in the NYT tower....the "cladding" is awful


???????

[NYguy]

MARCH 24, 2006

Starting to look like one of New York's tallest rising...


http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/57743317/medium.jpg_http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/57743322/medium.jpg


http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/57743332/medium.jpg_http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/57743374/medium.jpg


http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/57745556/medium.jpg


http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/57743329/large.jpg


http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/57743349/large.jpg


http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/57743374/large.jpg


http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/57745556/large.jpg


http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/57743317/large.jpg

[Lecom]

Sweeeeet

[nygirl1]

You can sort of make out the boa and nyt under construction in the same picture I took from the top of the Orion on St. Patricks day.



http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g20/NYGIRL11/P1010242.jpg


If you look up forty second street to the left, the Boa is under construction and to the right if you scroll is the nyt under construction.

[Spooky873]

i expect some good pics soon, havent been many in a while.

[CarlosV]

TODAY APRIL 6, 2006


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/2006/DSC01430.jpg




http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/2006/DSC01434.jpg






A CARAVAN OF JEWS !!!! :rolleyes: ( A JEWISH HOLIDAY??? hundreds of these RV's full of jews were along 6th avenue !!! )

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/2006/DSC01433.jpg

[Stephenapolis]

Thanks for the updates again Carlos.

[JACKinBeantown]

Let us welcome Moschak with acts of goodness and kindness. :banana:

[CarlosV]

:shrug: what's MOSCHAK ????

[JACKinBeantown]

Haven't you ever seen those posters with the pictures of the old Jewish revi who died about 10 years ago? (His picture is on that first truck). Actually, come to think of it, those posters must have been up over 10 years ago. That's what it's about though. He was coming to town and the posters were advertising that everyone should welcome him with acts of goodness and kindness.

[JACKinBeantown]

And upon closer inspection, that's exactly what it says on the smaller poster on the right.

[CarlosV]

But He Is Dead ????

[JACKinBeantown]

I don't get it either. I just like to say, "Let us welcome Moshak with acts of kindness and goodness."

[Spooky873]

edit

[Spooky873]

its nice to see the tower portion finally going up.

[Fabb]

I was wondering if it was. Hopefully, it'll rise as fast as the NY Times tower.

[Spooky873]

compare and contrast...

http://www.durst.org/prop/images/1bp/hires/3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/2006/DSC01430.jpg

[CHAPINM1]

Looks like the trading floors are topped out. It appears that they are 6 floors. I can see why they compleated that part first, because some of the rest of the tower will overlap the very eastern edge of the trading floors as seen on the rendering above.

[CarlosV]

The more things change the more the stay the same !!!

Here's a photo of workers unloading steel beams in 1931 for the Empire State Building...

http://images.nypl.org/?id=79844&t=w



NOW !!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/2006/DSC01366.jpg

[JACKinBeantown]

Nice old & new shots, Carlos.

[CarlosV]

GLORIOUS DAY IN GOTHAM

NYC April 10, 2006

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/2006/DSC01445.jpg





http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/2006/DSC01446.jpg






http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/2006/DSC01447.jpg




ONLY IN NEW YORK KIDS, ONLY IN NEW YORK !!!

:sly:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/2006/DSC01444.jpg

[JACKinBeantown]

Hey, I know that guy!

[Spooky873]

Orion looks good up in that pic.

[CoolCzech]

You're a photographic genius, Carlos!

Keep up the good work...

[Daquan13]

There ARE some very strange people in New York City!

They tend to do strange things near construction sites. Looks like a constr. worker taking an afternoon siesta.

[CarlosV]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/2006/DSC01444.jpg


There ARE some very strange people in New York City!

They tend to do strange things near construction sites. Looks like a constr. worker taking an afternoon siesta.



^ ARE YOU FOR REAL !!!!!! URURURURHGHGHG

CONSTRUCTION WORKER WITH THOSE SHOES !!!!!!! GIMME A BREAK !!!!

:hell: :hell: :hell: :hell: :hell: :hell: :hell: :hell: :hell: :hell: :yuck: :yuck:

[NYonward]

Yeah, that guy is working alright. Working on his buzz.

[Daquan13]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/2006/DSC01444.jpg






^ ARE YOU FOR REAL !!!!!! URURURURHGHGHG

CONSTRUCTION WORKER WITH THOSE SHOES !!!!!!! GIMME A BREAK !!!!

:hell: :hell: :hell: :hell: :hell: :hell: :hell: :hell: :hell: :hell: :yuck: :yuck:



How do you know for sure if he's not? He could have steel toes in those shoes.

[JACKinBeantown]

:slob:
[QUOTE=Carlos]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/2006/DSC01444.jpg

[TAFisher123]

Whats up with the steel on the left hand side of this picture, maybe they are boozin

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/nyctowers/2006/DSC01447.jpg

[amaddry]

From walking by the site recently it looked like the walls at the base of the tower on the south east corner will be tilting outwards...

[Daquan13]

I never noticed that before.

[STERNyc]

Well I remember reading somewhere that the design has changed somewhat from the last released version. We shall see...