NEW YORK | Highrise Developments Compilation Thread

[Lecom]

Aliendroid, thanks for the building info but you must credit the image sources.

[Lecom]

Originally Posted by Scruffy

785 8th is in skyscraper construction. Please Link

Got it. Good job with the thread dude.

Also added 885 6th.

[aliendroid]

Originally Posted by Lecom

Aliendroid, thanks for the building info but you must credit the image sources.

I deleted the images in this thread and I cited the sources in the 400 fifth ave thread.

[aliendroid]

We have some official stats for atlier 2, 618 feet, 57 floors 1030 apartments

http://wirednewyork.com/forum/showth...?t=7801&page=6


Also the height of 56 Leonard changed to 821 feet but in the link on the first page it is still at the old height.

[Lecom]

Thanks for the tip on Atelier and 56 Leonard height change. Made a new thread for Atelier, but kept its height at 617 ft as per Emporis. Where did you get 618 ft from, Alien?

[Lecom]

785 8th Avenue



more updates at the thread

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...11#post3825911

[Jonovision]

Wow! That looks stunning. I love the colour and the only slight reflectiveness of the glass.

[Lecom]

Yea, and what's amazing about it is that the tower's the width of the rowhouse that used to occupy that site, at least on its 8th Avenue frontage. Either way, it's just another boost to the 8th Avenue canyon, which was literally nonexistent just over five years ago as the sporadic highrises that lined it were not enough to comprise a full-blown canyon. It may not be quite at average Midtown level yet, but as some of the current u/c projects on it are slated to rise over 600 ft, it may reach solid Midtown status quite soon.

[newflyer]

New York City is nothing short of incredible for so many reasons ... toped by its sence of urban feel.

Hopefully I will be able to get back to NYC next spring for a visit.

[Scruffy]

i haven't been around in a long time. im still trying to upload pics from early September. But some news and eventually these pics will be posted

jean Nouvel's 100 11th street is topped out. Its across the street from the IAC. It doesn't look too special yet, they haven't added on any of the signature windows.

In BK- Toren is topped out and more than halfway cladded.
111 Lawrence in downtown BK, i dont have the exact address in front of me, is well above street level. 4 floors as of sept 15. Its slated to be the new tallest building in Brooklyn, taller than Williamsburg Savings Bank but it completely under the radar.

The Dekalb project was also at 4 floors that week. Supposed to be another 400 footer. There was some foundation work being done for the Big Apple Project on Myrtle Ave. Avalon Brooklyn's foundation seemed complete. 145? Bridge St in DT Brooklyn (another BK Tower taller than Williamsburg savings Bank) is getting its foundation dug out. The Albee Sq Mall is completely torn down. This is the future site of City Place. (yet another tower taller than WBSB)

Both Edge Towers are rising at the same time on the river. 1 close to topping out i think, the other around 10 floors right now. Along with the completed highrise (can't remember name off top of head) a block down, this little section of Williamsburg is starting to look a lot like Queens West a couple miles north. The LED lighting on the Shaeffer's Landing Towers on the south Williamsburg waterfront are nasty looking. what were they thinking. Instead of an outline they have LED spots that change color midtower. Pictures would describe it better but its a turd.

More Manhattan
The foundation work on 605 west 42nd street seems to have completely stalled while across the street, the Silver Twins are almost entirely glassed up. the tower at 30th st and 11th ave is over 20 floors and already dominates over the west side railyards.

Highline Projects-
HL23 finally seems to be going skyward. the foundations are done and some steel broke street level. 245 10th is more than halfway finished. the highline building that straddles the highline at 14th street now has a steel frame rising over the existing 2 story structure. The standard Hotel a block south looks like its getting ready to open and it seriously looks like shit. strike 2 for andre balaz. im a beaver house hater.

Bronx-
The first new office tower in the Bronx that i can remember is done at the Hutchinson Metro center. Its not a skyscraper, its 12-14 floors but its not bad looking. It also seems to be successful. Plans for a second tower were announced but that was before the credit crisis exploded.

MISC- they've started to light up the upper third of the Woolworth Tower in colored lights a la Empire State and Metropolitan Life Clocktower. Im not sure how i feel. I looked at it the other night (i can see it from my job) and it was purple-pink. I think the top was being converted to or has already been converted to condos.

thats the sit rep for this week. peace out

[Scruffy]

yikes

from Curbed
Hotel Armageddon: Huge Projects in Holding Patterns?
It's no surprise that the credit crunch has wreaked havoc on the hotel boom that had threatened to turn all of Manhattan into one big pillow mint, but according to the Times, some highly-anticipated projects may be completely screwed. Sure, some new inns like the Cooper Square Hotel have had to slash their expected rates significantly, but that's child's play compared to these other problems. "Hotel professionals" told the Times that Larry Silverstein's Robert A.M. Stern-designed 80-story Four Seasons at 99 Church Street/30 Park Place (right) is "delayed or canceled," though a Silverstein rep denies it (and what about the building's condos?). There's more. The Lehman Brothers bankruptcy has stalled two projects: the Kent Swig/Robert De Niro/et al. Nobu Hotel in the Financial District, and the Norman Foster-designed Shangri-La in Midtown. Oh, and those two hotels planned for Pearl Street—the ones that caused the controversial demolition of historic 213 Pearl Street—well, the Lam Group hopes to "eventually" build on the site. Until then, they're open to suggestions!
· Grand Plans for Manhattan Hotels Are Stalling [NYT via TRE]

50 West Street has been stalled also after the developer stated that they hadn't secured all the loans before the credit crunch happened

[tone99loc]

I originally posted this in Wired NY, but I made a Google map of NYC construction projects that will be useful to people here. It's still a work in progress, but for now most the stuff in Manhattan is there.

[Lecom]

^hot map

[KVNBKLYN]

Originally Posted by tone99loc

I originally posted this in Wired NY, but I made a Google map of NYC construction projects that will be useful to people here. It's still a work in progress, but for now most the stuff in Manhattan is there.

Great map! One quick comment: you have be@schermerhorn (189 Schermerhorn) listed as proposed when the building's almost done. I was just there this morning looking at apartments.

[tone99loc]

^^ muchas gracias - schermerhorn updated!

[Scruffy]

seriously. good job with that map

[Lecom]

Updated the main list with One Madison Avenue's new height: 937 ft


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3052/...eb543b1b_o.jpg

[JACKinBeantown]

Wow, that's cool. I'm not crazy about it overshadowing the old Met Life building like that, but it's a cool design.

[Lecom]

All they need to do now is finish Met Life North to its originally intended 100 stories. They don't even need to close the bottom part of the building - just build on top, BCBS style. Keep the base as whatever use it currently has, and make the narrower tower on top a condo addition. Imagine the allure of historical condos (which they would be if built according to the building's original plans) combined with the newness of a new structure. Also given its prime location, the condos would be even hotter than 15 Central Park West, a similar historicist development on a prime site.

[colemonkee]

Wow. That rivals Hearst Tower for a modern addition to a classic building. Agreed that the addition to Met Life North would complete a very impressive new cluster, with classic and modern influences represented.