NEW YORK | 555 West 33rd St - World Product Centre | 1,011 FT / 308 M | 60 FLOORS
 

World Product Centre

1.5 Million Sq Feet Tower

Part of Manhattan's Far West Side Redevelopment

Opening: Winter 2013??

ARCHITECTS:

KOHN PEDERSON FOX ARCHITECTS (Exterior)

FXFOWLE ARCHITECTS (Interior)


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World Products Centre will include up to 1.5 million square feet of exhibition and meeting space in the 60-story, LEED certified, building. The building is designed with a "diagrid" structural framing system to create column free interior floor plans allowing for maximum flexibility in the interior configurations. Elevator service in the building will include high-speed service from the building lobby to a sky lobby for tenants on the upper floors of the building. Energy efficient building systems will support all internal functions providing Licensees and Attendees with a high level of comfort, flexibility, and maximum efficiency in the operations of their spaces.

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MTA Subway extension

The 7-train extension project, serving the redevelopment of the Hudson Yards area, contains plans to house a subway stop directly underneath World Product Centre.

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World Product Centre site - former Copacabana (pink building)

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WPC Website

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I really like the base.

Sick! Too bad it's just shy of 1000 ft and the massing seems sort of awkward, but neither should be a problem in the long run.

Reminds me of a wine bottle carton in netting!:yuck: Height is nice, but does this look ...original?:shrug:

being a medical student this building is particularly interesting to me. Though they should add 3 meters to it, it's already almost 300 and do something more creative at the top of the building.

that tower try less Global Warming from LED Energy?

YES!!!!

This is the copacabana site. I didn't think we'd get a render until next week.
this is freakin sweet!

Did anyone else realize that they placed the tower in the wrong spot in the diagram with the subway line. Whoops. they placed in it on 30th right on the yards.

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice! :cheers: Another external diagrid for New York. Does the massing of this remind anyone of Bloomberg tower?

From New Jersey, this tower may eclipse the ESB.
It's very promising.

Why wouldn't they add a little 23 foot spire?

and did anyone notice that in that diagram madison square garden looks like a huge toilet.

This is actually 298m.
297m=974ft

Madison Square Garden has always been a toilet ;)


Corrected :tup:

Oh that is one good looking tower. Very Kewl...

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One would think they'd build a project like this in Houston being that it's medical field related, but I guess the international aspect of it makes the best location New York.

Please build it!! I would do my CMEs here. :slob:

ughhh jesus another one. Seriously, if they even build maybe two or three of these proposals I'd be happy. What I'm waiting for is for one to move past the "proposal" point.

Side note: AWESOME DESIGN! CAN'T WAIT TO SEE IT ON THE SKYLINE. :haha: ;)

Agreed - I'm loving all these huge proposals, but let's see one materialize!

....or maybe it will have to wait a few years for this whole financial mess to pass over.

Yeah, what is it with developers these days? Would a handful of extra feet just for the prestige of supertall status kill them? I wish there was more of a spirit of competition again.

That said, I like the building, and that super-zoot diagrid.