Quote:
Originally Posted by jcrm2
I guess we're in an era in NY where super tall thin buildings will be the norm. Big foot print tall buildings like WTC & ESB will be no more.
|
The WTC and ESB are office buidlings. You don't compare office with residential. Look to the office buildings being planned if you want large footprints.
Quote:
Originally Posted by photoLith
I dont see why the Steinway Hall designation impacts this building? That building is beautiful and Steinway Hall needs to be preserved.
|
It impacts this building because it is a landmarked building, or at least portions of it, and its being incorporated to make this a larger development. As far as being preserved, JDS is one developer that has a particular taste for preserving old buildings, and would probably be converting Steinway Hall even without the taller portion.
Walker tower has already been very successful...
http://jdsdevelopmentgroup.com/portfolios/walker-tower/
And they are already on to the next conversion...
http://jdsdevelopmentgroup.com/portf...t-50th-street/
http://nymag.com/arts/architecture/r...vidson-2013-9/
Giants in Our Midst
The first of the 1,000-footers stomps onto 57th Street.
By Justin Davidson
Sep 15, 2013
Quote:
...The plutocratization of the midtown skyline is just getting under way. It will be months before the first moving trucks pull up to One57 (and a year before the Park Hyatt at its base opens), but already the building is destined to be the shorty in a lineup of giants. A few doors down, the gracious Steinway Hall will be getting a stalky neighbor, a third again as tall as One57. There’s hope for that one: SHoP has proposed a bronzed feather tricked out with glazed terra-cotta tiles, which could provide some of the texture and detail that make the Woolworth Building so lovable.
...Manhattan is acquiring two comically distinct types of glass super-skyscrapers: the fat office building like the Bank of America Tower, its girth ample enough to accommodate a trading floor; and the skinny residential shaft, just thick enough for a full-floor duplex with windows all around. These architectural Laurels and Hardys are staking out different neighborhoods, and the zoning along 57th Street is superbly tailored to the desires of the ultrarich, allowing very tall towers on narrow lots. But as technology and economics keep pushing upward, the city has an interest in seeing that the tallest new buildings are both necessary and good.
|