Posted Oct 16, 2013, 1:45 PM
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http://www.nydailynews.com/life-styl...icle-1.1486771
Narrow tower, higher than Empire State Building, wins city approval
SHoP Architects-designed building on W. 57th St. is called 'daring' by Landmarks Commission. And it's not even the biggest tower in town.
By Matt Chaban
October 15, 2013
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Ever want to look down on the Empire State Building? How about from your apartment?
In three years, well-heeled buyers will be able to do that from the top floors of a 1,350-foot tower that won approval Tuesday.
The building’s roofline is 100 feet higher than New York’s famous skyscraper — minus its iconic antenna — and will rise like a serrated knife next to Steinway Hall on W. 57th St.
The new-old tandem, due for completion in 2016, will contain about 100 apartments. Construction should start next spring, and the famed piano company will move out of its 1925 home.
The designers said they got their inspiration for the sleek structure from early cloud-busters such as the Empire State and Woolworth buildings. “It really comes from ... these slender, tapering towers
(but) rethinks them in a totally modern way,” said Gregg Pasquarelli, principal at SHoP Architects.
The tower would have only been 697 feet until the developers bought Steinway Hall — a deal that allowed for the building’s height to double, but also gave the Landmarks Preservation
Commission the final say.
The approval was a no brainer, members said.
“It represents the best of both worlds of new construction and design and historic preservation,” Commission Chairman Robert Tierney said Tuesday.
Fellow commissioner Fred Bland called the combo “daring and smart.”
At only 60 feet wide, the JDS Development and Property Markets Group tower appears to defy gravity.
“It may be the skinniest building ever,” Pasquarelli said. “The ratio is something like 25-to-1.”
But it won’t be alone, as a parade of supertalls now march down W. 57th St.
Developer Gary Barnett is finishing up his 1,005-foot One57 on the other end of the block, and he also has plans for a 1,432-footer across from Carnegie Hall. And Harry Macklowe is currently building
his 1,397-foot 432 Park Ave. on the eastern end of the stretch.
But Pasquarelli insisted his will be the best.
“It’s not something that could be been plucked off the skyline of Singapore or Hong Kong,” he said. “We’re all New York.”
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http://shoparc.com/node/2877/project-page
111 WEST 57TH STREET
LOCATION / NEW YORK, NY
PHASE / UNDER DEVELOPMENT
SIZE / 316,000 SF
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Located in the heart of mid-town along 57th street, SHoP’s design for this 1300 foot tall luxury residential tower is quintessentially New York.
The design aims to bring back the quality, materiality and proportions of historic NYC towers, while taking advantage of the latest technology to pushing the limits of engineering and fabrication.
The tower massing accentuates its’ required setbacks along 57th street with a feathering of multiple, thin steps along the south façade.
Each step corresponds with a layer of ornate Terra Cotta pilasters cladding the east and west facades.
The façade is designed to read at multiple scales and vantage points; the shaping of the Terra Cotta creates a sweeping play on shadow and light from the city scale, as the texture of the Terra Cotta panels
and inlayed bronze filigree provides richness up close.
A minimalist, glass curtain wall along the North façade will take full advantage of the tower’s sweeping views of Central Park.
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