NEW YORK | 160 Madison Ave | 452 FT | 42 FLOORS - Page 2

Crawford · #21 Posted **Jan 27, 2013, 6:45 PM**

Yeah, we need something tall here. It would really be nice for the skyline.

I know J.D. Carlyle bought the whole block, so there should be lots of air rights. If you look at the DOB demolitions page, they've already filed permits to demo much of the block.

yankeesfan1000 · #22 Posted **Feb 24, 2013, 7:42 PM**

Demo moving along:

babybackribs2314 · #23 Posted **May 24, 2013, 4:05 PM**

Buildings now gone! Demolition looks to be complete, unless they are still working below-grade (my guess would be that they are).

160 Madison Avenue May 2013 Demolition Update

sbarn · #24 Posted **Jun 10, 2013, 1:34 PM**

Unfortunately this building is going to look like s**t (IMO). Some images posted by RobertWalpole at SSC:

My main gripe is its treatment of the street wall. Madison Avenue has a great intact street wall and this completely destroys it. It not only has a dinky one or two story base, it is set back and rotates away from grid. Plus the design looks like its from the 1970s. Yuck!

babybackribs2314 · #25 Posted **Jun 10, 2013, 3:21 PM**

The tower itself is just bland but the offense to the street wall is unacceptable - this is awful.

Crawford · #26 Posted **Jun 10, 2013, 3:41 PM**

CIM owns the lot across the street. Hopefully they will develop a nicer tower.

CIM is, of course, the developer of 432 Park, so it would be nice to see something tall and soaring on this other lot.

For this building, though, I don't really have a strong opinion. It looks meh, but depends on facade treatment and street-level feel.

In any case, with two big towers rising next to each other, this block will look very different.

sbarn · #27 Posted **Jun 10, 2013, 3:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by babybackribs2314

The tower itself is just bland but the offense to the street wall is unacceptable - this is awful.

Agreed, the street wall treatment is horrific. This neighborhood is full of stately facades, I don't know what would possess a developer to build a short, cheap looking podium that looks like a stand alone big box store. If this were the Far West Side I would just shrug, but this is in the heart of town. Shameful. Such a missed opportunity (for the City AND the developers)...

NYguy · #28 Posted **Jun 10, 2013, 11:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by sbarn

Unfortunately this building is going to look like s**t (IMO). Some images posted by RobertWalpole at SSC:

Another piece of filler.

Hypothalamus · #29 Posted **Nov 15, 2013, 12:10 AM**

New York YIMBY:

Construction Update: 160 Madison Avenue
BY: NIKOLAI FEDAK ON NOVEMBER 14TH 2013 AT 11:30 AM

Quote:

The crane is now up at 160 Madison Avenue, which will soon give rise to a 31-story tower; the architect of record is SLCE. The site’s developer is JD Carlisle, and the building has undergone a number of changes since Ismael Leyva designed the initial iteration.

Excavation at the site is now complete, and foundations are being poured; the forms in the lower levels already show the shape of the eventual tower, which will rise at a diagonal to the street. The lone rendering, which was posted on-site, doesn’t show the tower in any level of real detail, but the interruption of the street-wall along Madison Avenue is a definite negative.

Once finished, 160 Madison will hold 225 condominiums and stand 371 feet tall; while the exterior may be lackluster, at least units will have relatively high ceilings. Besides the residential, there will be an 11,000 square foot retail component. Completion of the project is expected in 2015.

sbarn · #30 Posted **Nov 15, 2013, 1:09 AM**

Begin the rise to mediocrity!!

reencharles · #31 Posted **Nov 16, 2013, 2:00 AM**

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Originally Posted by sbarn

Begin the rise to mediocrity!!

Exactly. I thought the same (Well, everyone thinks the same thing).

Hypothalamus · #32 Posted **Dec 24, 2013, 7:08 PM**

Photo credit to: EastMillinocket @ WNY

As of December 21st, 2013...

easy as pie · #33 Posted **Dec 25, 2013, 6:31 AM**

wow, knock off 10 stories and you have vancouver (ie. this tower degrades the street level to such an extent that it ought not to have been allowed: rules need to be tightened).

giantSwan · #34 Posted **Dec 27, 2013, 3:55 PM**

agreed with the previous comments...

this is a terrible project for NYC - net loss. It's ruins healthy street life

ThatOneGuy · #35 Posted **Dec 28, 2013, 2:33 AM**

Street walls are overrated. And the building is not that bad, come on.

Rizzo · #36 Posted **Dec 28, 2013, 6:55 AM**

Yuck. Classy NYC streetwall knocked down for a bland tower that could be in anywhere USA. Hate to see architectural prestige disappear for something non-descript.

ThatOneGuy · #37 Posted **Dec 29, 2013, 3:48 PM**

Please tell me what was so prestigeous about what was there before?

Crawford · #38 Posted **Dec 29, 2013, 6:50 PM**

I don't like this building because I think it looks like crap, but I don't understand the previous comments.

The building maintains the streetwall and is perfectly good from an urbanistic standpoint.

And there is no parking included. It's definitely not a generic U.S.-style highrise, for those reasons alone. It's ugly but urban, and very New York.

599GTO · #39 Posted **Dec 30, 2013, 10:52 AM**

Disgusting.

Couldn't those cretins have just thrown up a glass box that rises perpendicularly from top to bottom? I wish these low-budget, architecturally-retarded developers/architects in NYC (most in this city belong in this category) would just throw up high quality glass boxes that align with the street-level instead of playing architect and "designing" these horrific buildings in the most terrible shapes, with the tacky facades that look like they belong in some southern city. Let's leave the designing to real developers and architects.

Between this and 136 West 42nd Street... Ugh.. this poor city.

Hypothalamus · #40 Posted **Jan 8, 2014, 11:17 PM**

As of January 5th, 2014...
Photo Credit: EastMillinocket @ WNY