NEW YORK l 70 West 45th St l 514 FT / 157 M l 47 FLOORS | T/O - Page 2

RoldanTTLB · #21 Posted **Jul 8, 2009, 5:43 PM**

More floors, no cladding. All the cladding is prefab, though, so it should show up and go up fast when they actually decide it's go time.

Roaming · #22 Posted **Jul 8, 2009, 5:58 PM**

Great shots. Can't wait for the cladding.

Antares41 · #23 Posted **Jul 10, 2009, 4:22 AM**

Looks to be as thin as the Saya building toward the top. The old International Paper Bldg ( I forget its current name) is three times wider!

NYguy · #24 Posted **Jul 11, 2009, 8:49 PM**

curbed

Dac150 · #25 Posted **Jul 12, 2009, 7:03 PM**

I saw a lot of this building over the last couple of days and it really isn't doing much for the area nor the skyline within the area. 1166 6th Avenue (Int'l Paper Building) dominates it to no end.

NYguy · #26 Posted **Jul 12, 2009, 10:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by Dac150

I saw a lot of this building over the last couple of days and it really isn't doing much for the area nor the skyline within the area.

It's the heart of Midtown, so it will take a lot to alter the skyline there.

NYguy · #27 Posted **Aug 19, 2009, 12:10 AM**

mr.seymour

sbarn · #28 Posted **Aug 19, 2009, 2:40 AM**

Wow, can't believe how fast the curtain wall went up on this thing.

NYguy · #29 Posted **Aug 20, 2009, 5:55 AM**

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Originally Posted by sbarn

Wow, can't believe how fast the curtain wall went up on this thing.

Yeah, stuff like this goes up very quickly, while the Tower Verre must await a decision by the skyscraper gods...

eaalkaline · #30 Posted **Aug 26, 2009, 2:52 AM**

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Originally Posted by NYguy

Yeah, stuff like this goes up very quickly, while the Tower Verre must await a decision by the skyscraper gods...

haha, yeah, go figure...

kznyc2k · #31 Posted **Sep 14, 2009, 5:34 PM**

tommaso · #32 Posted **Nov 28, 2009, 3:39 AM**

We could use an update on this one too.

Tom Servo · #33 Posted **Nov 28, 2009, 4:21 AM**

how am i just discovering this one???? what a fantastic high-rise!

Dac150 · #34 Posted **Nov 28, 2009, 3:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by tommaso

We could use an update on this one too.

Probably best you don't, I got a good look at it the other day from 30 floors up in a building on 6th and 42nd, and I cringed. It's best that this 'skybunker' is swarmed by the 6th Avenue wall making it invisible.

pablosan · #35 Posted **Nov 28, 2009, 5:08 PM**

I would venture to say that this building is very underwhelming.

photoLith · #36 Posted **Nov 29, 2009, 9:30 PM**

What the hell is this? Its one of the ugliest buildings Ive ever seen. yuck, I hope its well hidden in the skyline.

NYguy · #37 Posted **Jan 28, 2010, 2:32 AM**

http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/20..._Open_in_April

Cassa Hotel Might Just Meet Our Desires and Open in April

January 27, 2010
by MsRebecca

What’s this? A New York hotel opening on or close to schedule? We don’t want to count our chickens before they’ve hatched but we’ve learned that the Cassa Hotel & Residences in New York is set to open in April. Last we heard it might be this summer, so this is welcome news indeed.

The futuristic-looking building on West 45th Street is designed by Enrique Norten of Ten Arquitectos and is part condo, part hotel—57 apartments and 166 hotel rooms. Cassa joins fellow Desires Hotels in New York, The MAve and Hotel Mela.

Rooms will include HD flatscreens, Boynq and Bose docking systems, Frette sheets and towels, Angelo Caroli bath goodies, and a Dean & Deluca stocked snack and minibar. Like they can at all Desires Hotels, guests can use the Your Desires guest-preferences program to get, well, whatever it is they desire.

One thing’s for sure: we constantly crave new hotels, so if Cassa hits its target and opens its doors in April, task one on our desires list will be taken care of.

Then we can talk about the spa …

JACKinBeantown · #38 Posted **Jan 28, 2010, 9:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by pablosan

I would venture to say that this building is very underwhelming.

Very Planet of the Apes.

CalibratedZeus · #39 Posted **Feb 16, 2010, 6:33 AM**

Figured we needed a picture of this sucker with a completed cladding....

Taken by me this Saturday 2/13.

JSsocal · #40 Posted **Feb 16, 2010, 6:37 AM**

It's not quite done. The bottom section that currently looks like the rest of the building will have a screen in front of it.