NEW YORK | 123 Washington (4 Albany St) | 631 FT / 192 M | 56 FLOORS | T/O

[Jularc]

This one is already under construction.

[NYguy]

From curbed.com...



A Liberty Leg Up for Another Hotel in Financial District

In case you hadn't heard, the post-9/11 Liberty bond cookie jar is nuthin' but crumbs at this point, but one of the last guys to get his hand in and snag some cut-rate financing sweetness was Joseph Moinian of the Moinian Group, who plans to develop a condo/hotel tower at 123 Washington Street—below ground zero, next to the shrouded still-not-demolished-yet Deutsche Bank building at 130 Liberty.

Mssrs. Gwathmey and Siegel—they who wrought Sculpture for Living upon the world—will be sharing the role of architect; more visuals for the project than you probably needed can be seen above. Come late '07 or early '08, look for 220 rooms on 25 painfully chic floors fitted with all the trappings of another W Hotel, while 180 residential condos are completed above. Throw in a "high-end restaurant, lounge, sky lobby, ancillary spa and fitness center," and you're already giving the Millenium Hilton something to sneer at from across the way.

[hi123]

that could possibly be the ugliest new building in new york along with 10 barclay.

[TREPYE]

Yet another banal rectangle in the sea of rectangles in downtown. When will it stop?

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by NYguy

From curbed.com...

Hoping it will look better in person. But either way, it will be dwarfed by tower 5, or the residential tower that will be built in place of the office tower.

[Chad]

Looks like it came streight out of Sim City 3000?

[NYguy]

Septermber 3, 2006

[colemonkee]

Whoa! So this is already under construction?

[hoosier]

Great! I need to add this building to my list of buildings to keep an eye on. I don't think this building is ugly at all if you go by the renderings. The WTC complex will render this building insignificant anyways, and those towers WON'T be boxes.

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by colemonkee

Whoa! So this is already under construction?

They're working on it. They developer also got a chunk of liberty bonds for it, so it should go up quickly once it gets out of the ground, similar to 10 Barclay street.

[NYguy]

Daily News

Project hits brakes after tower shake

The city shut down a construction project near Ground Zero after pile driving caused a neighboring office building to shift and may have made the former Deutsche Bank tower shake, officials said.

The city Buildings Department halted construction of luxury apartments at 4 Albany St., a block from the World Trade Center site.

The Sept. 28 order came after workers discovered that an office building next-door at 120 Greenwich St. had moved about an inch since pile driving started a few weeks back.

The order also followed complaints that work at the site was causing vibrations at the toxic former Deutsche Bank tower across the street, records show.

Greg B. Smith

[Thskyscraper]

Originally Posted by NYguy

Daily News

Project hits brakes after tower shake

The city shut down a construction project near Ground Zero after pile driving caused a neighboring office building to shift and may have made the former Deutsche Bank tower shake, officials said.

The city Buildings Department halted construction of luxury apartments at 4 Albany St., a block from the World Trade Center site.

The Sept. 28 order came after workers discovered that an office building next-door at 120 Greenwich St. had moved about an inch since pile driving started a few weeks back.

The order also followed complaints that work at the site was causing vibrations at the toxic former Deutsche Bank tower across the street, records show.

Greg B. Smith

Thats strange. I don't know if it was a good idea to start constrution while they're demolishing the old Deutshe Tower, but I guess they'll have to investigate on this matter now.

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by Thskyscraper

Thats strange. I don't know if it was a good idea to
start constrution while they're demolishing the old Deutshe Tower, but I
guess they'll have to investigate on this matter now.

It's a little odd, but I'm sure construction will resume once the investigation
is over. They are taking precautions because there has been a history of
problems with the dismantling of the Deutshe Bank tower. It was previously
stated that the entire thing could collapse if something were to go wrong.

You can see just how close the sites are from this pic:

[Antares41]

Foundation work has begun ,but, has been halted due to shift foundation of one of the adjacent buildings. Move to highrise construction.

[Lecom]

Originally Posted by Thskyscraper

Thats strange. I don't know if it was a good idea to start constrution while they're demolishing the old Deutshe Tower, but I guess they'll have to investigate on this matter now.

Or, while demolishing Deutsche, they could use this time to strenghten the neighboring building.

Damn, what a haunted area for highrises. Just think about the headline, "Construction halted after neighboring building starts to shift, and a 40-story abandoned toxic tower shakes". And that's just one block away from friggin' Ground Zero. Which, in turn, is across the street from the site of Singer Building and quite a few other towers that have come down over the yars.

[Hoodrat]

[NYC32]

WOW So much is going on in that area. LOVE IT

[Zerton]

It looks totally functional. The mismatched windows on the side are my biggest pet peeve in architecture. I thought that stopped after the 40s?

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by Zerton

It looks totally functional. The mismatched windows on the
side are my biggest pet peeve in architecture. I thought that stopped after the 40s?

Looks a little like Chicago's Water Tower Place...

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[gripja]

This building will look fine. It will be interesting watching this one rise while right across the street a building gets dismantled. If they both ever get to full steam it will be something I, for one, have never witnessed..