NEW YORK | 7 Bryant Park (1045 6th) | 450 FT | 29 FLOORS - Page 5

NewYorkDominates · #81 Posted **Aug 2, 2012, 1:29 AM**

Most amazing building in New York that isn't a super-tall.

THE BIG APPLE · #82 Posted **Oct 4, 2012, 1:14 AM**

AWESOME BREAKING NEWS!

NY Times

Quote:

On a site at the southwest corner of the park that is owned by the investment company Pacolet Milliken Enterprises, construction will begin in November on a 28-story tower to be called 7 Bryant Park. The investment company selected Hines, an international real estate firm, to assist in the tower’s development, and the tower should be completed by late 2014.

yankeesfan1000 · #83 Posted **Oct 4, 2012, 1:14 AM**

Ha! Beat me to it! The architects website does explicitly say stainless steel will be used on the facade, so it should be a sharp looking building.

THE BIG APPLE · #84 Posted **Oct 4, 2012, 1:15 AM**

Here are NEW renderings.

THE BIG APPLE · #85 Posted **Oct 4, 2012, 1:19 AM**

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Originally Posted by yankeesfan1000

Ha! Beat me to it! The architects website does explicitly say stainless steel will be used on the facade, so it should be a sharp looking building.

It looks pretty sharp in the second picture above.

sbarn · #86 Posted **Dec 18, 2012, 5:33 AM**

There are now several large excavators on site now!

(photos by me)

khaizer007 · #87 Posted **Dec 18, 2012, 6:19 AM**

Should be moved to U/C. Was around the site this week end, this looks like it's moving along.

NYguy · #88 Posted **Dec 18, 2012, 6:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by khaizer007

Should be moved to U/C. Was around the site this week end, this looks like it's moving along.

Looks like they are just digging or about to begin from the photo.

sbarn · #89 Posted **Dec 19, 2012, 2:42 AM**

It isn't under construction yet. But there are 3 large excavators on site that were quite active. I hear it should start rising mid-2013.

yankeesfan1000 · #90 Posted **Jan 16, 2013, 5:59 PM**

Excavation work continues, couple of photos thanks to GeoDude on SSC:

NYguy · #91 Posted **Jan 16, 2013, 9:33 PM**

Nice to see work getting underway.

NYguy · #92 Posted **Feb 28, 2013, 4:36 AM**

Official groundbreaking...

nycmayorsoffice

http://www.greenvilleonline.com/arti...fice-tower-NYC

http://www.rew-online.com/2013/02/27...7-bryant-park/

NYguy · #93 Posted **Mar 2, 2013, 8:34 PM**

http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/55698

Pei Cobb Freed’s 7 Bryant Park Tower Breaks Ground in Manhattan

March 1, 2013

Quote:

Another skyscraper is rising in Midtown Manhattan. Developers Hines and Pacolet Milliken broke ground this week on Pei Cobb Freed’s 7 Bryant Park tower (aka 1045 Avenue of the Americas) that was unveiled in 2011. The 28-story, 470,000-square-foot tower sits at the southwest corner of Bryant Park and features a distinctive hourglass-shaped cutout on its corner. “The hourglass facade detail will be a lens through which building occupants can view the park with dramatic and alluring immediacy,” architect Henry N. Cobb told AN in 2011. A 46-foot-diameter stainless steel disc will hover above the entrance. The building hopes to achieve LEED Gold status and is expected to be complete in early 2015.

( I can't help but feel the old guy got some bad news, and may be about to jump off )

uaarkson · #94 Posted **Mar 2, 2013, 8:37 PM**

This is just great architecture. It feels a little cutting edge but is just so reminiscent of early international style buildings in that neighborhood.

JSsocal · #95 Posted **Mar 2, 2013, 11:35 PM**

^we lookin at the same building?

NYguy · #96 Posted **Mar 3, 2013, 1:18 PM**

It's very pleasing to the eye. I wish some of the more high profile towers being built in New York were as easy on the eyes.

NYC4Life · #97 Posted **Mar 4, 2013, 5:04 AM**

Love how it will be lit similar to its neighbor One Bryan Park.

mthd · #98 Posted **Mar 4, 2013, 9:06 PM**

hmmmm. i'm sure this will be a nice building. but it's a pretty shameless rip-off of Pei Cobb Freed's own Tour EDF.

horizontally expressed stainless spandrels/skin, check
simple form with conical cut-out, check
big stainless steel dish at the bottom, check

image from http://blog.jeanrond-photo.com/tag/Tour%20EDF, Photographs Hans-Josef Jeanrond

NYguy · #99 Posted **Mar 4, 2013, 9:20 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by mthd

hmmmm. i'm sure this will be a nice building. but it's a pretty shameless rip-off of Pei Cobb Freed's own Tour EDF.

horizontally expressed stainless spandrels/skin, check
simple form with conical cut-out, check
big stainless steel dish at the bottom, check

Ahh, but where are the skydecks...

RoldanTTLB · #**100** Posted **Mar 8, 2013, 5:44 PM**

This building is about as under construction as a building can be without having facade glass getting tacked onto it. Should it really still be over here in proposals?