JERSEY CITY | The Ellipse | 445 FT | 43 FLOORS
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Building Will Be Called "The Ellipse"
http://www.yimbynews.com/2015/12/lef...rsey-city.html
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FYI - This tower is about 450 feet tall, not 559 feet.
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Apologies. So if a mod could change this to 450 ft. Thanks. :) Another great addition to Newport. Now we just need that large scale Hoboken development near the rails to kick off. Whole area is booming. |
Lovely addition!
That area (Newport) looks very nice, I could see myself living there. :) The tower's location is just perfect, by the river and a big park in front of you. And of course just across the river there's Manhattan. ;) |
Amazing. It's as if a Miami popped up in Jersey City. Love seeing the additional density in JC and Brooklyn.
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The building will be roughly 600,000sq ft, containing 376 apartments and ground floor retail. Source: The Jersey Journal
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Kinda moving along fast. Happy for Jersey City. :)
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http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/i...1207163914.jpg In this render it does look like it's from Miami's EdgeWater district north of downtown minus the palm trees! Why isn't this taller? |
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https://cdn-standard.discourse.org/u...1_666x500.jpeg Credit: JC_Heights Can you imagine a JC with the development activity of Miami? :slob: |
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Reminds me of Dallas' Museum Tower.
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the curved walls will be a soothing sight across the river . .
But it would be fun to know, what kind of special foundations . . are required to go down into that slimy river muck . . in order to support such a tall building on a pier . . What precautions and special strengthenings were there . . designing a tower right smack on a sea-level riverbank . . prone to storm surges and rising seas ? . . Can The Ellipse's lobby be made watertight when things get blustery? . . Can Ellipse perhaps deal with, a playful little tsunami ? . . "It's as if a Miami building popped up in Jersey City." . . - applejacks . . You're right, of course, applejacks . . but the observation is also an indictment . . of the cheap, middle-brow taste of our developers . . . . that a rather plain, NYC building, that happens to have a curved shape . . is considered representative of another dazzling city . . blatantly signals how pathetically orthogonal and humdrum . . most contemporary NYC design really is . . well there's a curved volume of black glass that is the 265 E 66th St. apt. tower . . the Silver Battery tower at 17 State St. with a 1/4 circle footprint . . a bit of a curve on the GS bldg. . . yeah, curved corner-glass on 50 West . . some curvy-poo glass, wiggling around on Manhattan West buildings . . Sure there are a few others . . but for all intents and purposes, . . dynamic design is all pretty diluted down . . in this expensive, old, gnarly Eastern Seaboard town . . Accomplished Curves, and ambitious angles, are too exorbitant . . for the greazy, corrupted big boys here . . and that is why, lamentably, . . so many architectural flourishes at Hudson Yards and the WTC . . have conveniently vanished . . But not to worry . . There's plenty more of where that came from . . |
PS: but it's not all dark . .
LeFrak Org. did well with this building so far . . Michael Stern's Shop bldgs. are very cool . . also Related, and S&H Green bldgs. designed by KPF . . top drawer . . a well as all the Robert AM Stern apartment bldgs. going up . . |
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