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Most amazing building in New York that isn't a super-tall.

AWESOME BREAKING NEWS!

NY Times

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On a site at the southwest corner of the park that is owned by the investment company Pacolet Milliken Enterprises, construction will begin in November on a 28-story tower to be called 7 Bryant Park. The investment company selected Hines, an international real estate firm, to assist in the tower’s development, and the tower should be completed by late 2014.

Ha! Beat me to it! The architects website does explicitly say stainless steel will be used on the facade, so it should be a sharp looking building.

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Originally Posted by yankeesfan1000 (Post 5854545)

Ha! Beat me to it! The architects website does explicitly say stainless steel will be used on the facade, so it should be a sharp looking building.

It looks pretty sharp in the second picture above.

There are now several large excavators on site now! :cheers:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8502/8...d808505e_b.jpg

(photos by me)

Should be moved to U/C. Was around the site this week end, this looks like it's moving along.

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Originally Posted by khaizer007 (Post 5942212)

Should be moved to U/C. Was around the site this week end, this looks like it's moving along.

Looks like they are just digging or about to begin from the photo.

It isn't under construction yet. But there are 3 large excavators on site that were quite active. I hear it should start rising mid-2013.

Excavation work continues, couple of photos thanks to GeoDude on SSC:

http://i.imgur.com/OOtCO.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/jB8en.jpg

Nice to see work getting underway.

http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/55698

Pei Cobb Freed’s 7 Bryant Park Tower Breaks Ground in Manhattan

March 1, 2013

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Another skyscraper is rising in Midtown Manhattan. Developers Hines and Pacolet Milliken broke ground this week on Pei Cobb Freed’s 7 Bryant Park tower (aka 1045 Avenue of the Americas) that was unveiled in 2011. The 28-story, 470,000-square-foot tower sits at the southwest corner of Bryant Park and features a distinctive hourglass-shaped cutout on its corner. “The hourglass facade detail will be a lens through which building occupants can view the park with dramatic and alluring immediacy,” architect Henry N. Cobb told AN in 2011. A 46-foot-diameter stainless steel disc will hover above the entrance. The building hopes to achieve LEED Gold status and is expected to be complete in early 2015.

This is just great architecture. It feels a little cutting edge but is just so reminiscent of early international style buildings in that neighborhood.

^we lookin at the same building?

It's very pleasing to the eye. I wish some of the more high profile towers being built in New York were as easy on the eyes.

Love how it will be lit similar to its neighbor One Bryan Park.

hmmmm. i'm sure this will be a nice building. but it's a pretty shameless rip-off of Pei Cobb Freed's own Tour EDF.

horizontally expressed stainless spandrels/skin, check
simple form with conical cut-out, check
big stainless steel dish at the bottom, check

http://blog.jeanrond-photo.com/publi...Def_85_scr.jpg

image from http://blog.jeanrond-photo.com/tag/Tour%20EDF, Photographs Hans-Josef Jeanrond

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Originally Posted by mthd (Post 6037851)

Ahh, but where are the skydecks...;)

http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/..._bryant_03.jpg

This building is about as under construction as a building can be without having facade glass getting tacked onto it. Should it really still be over here in proposals?

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