NEW YORK | One57 (Carnegie 57) | 1,005 FT | 75 FLOORS

[Zerton]

700 facettes en écaille de verre sérigraphié qui créent une luminosité particulière

does this say something like "700 faces of glass situated for a particular luminosity"? basically a lot of glass at different angles?

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by Zerton

700 facettes en écaille de verre sérigraphié qui créent une luminosité particulière

does this say something like "700 faces of glass situated for a particular luminosity"? basically a lot of glass at different angles?

Another translation...

"700 facets in scale of screen printed glass which create a particular luminosity "

[Fabb]

That's only about ten facets per floor.
I'm not impressed.

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by Fabb

That's only about ten facets per floor.
I'm not impressed.

LOL, you're impressed by facets? I'd just like to see a rendering. Maybe we'll just have to wait until it's built.

This is all we really have to go on...

Originally Posted by NYguy

In the meantime, here's a breakdown of the Portzamparc tower:

There are about 4 lower levels (including parking)
Floor 1 .................hotel lobby, residential lobby
Floor 2 .................hotel ballroom, meeting rooms, lounge
Floor 3 .................restaurant, lounge
Floor 4 .................mechanical, (hotel space to floor 20)
Floor 20 ...............hotel spa, health club
Floor 21 ...............residential lounge, dining room, library
Floors 22-30 .......6 apts per floor
Floors 31-45 .......4 apts per floor
Floor 46 ...............mechanical
Floors 47-58 .......2 apts per floor
Floors 59-60 .........duplex
Floors 61-70 .........each floor single unit (apt)
Floors 71-72 .........duplex
Floor 73 ...............mechanical
Roof ....................elevator machine

Judging from that, it appears the tower would have a tapered (at least in effect) design, getting smaller at the top.

[NYguy]

JANUARY 29, 2010

Not too much going on yesterday.




Still, I would like to see a rendering to determine just how much of this ugly wall will be visible...

[Lecom]

Originally Posted by Dac150

Well as long as they’re doing something. 1775 Broadway is sort of a shame, but I’ll live.

As Hunter S. Thompson would say - horrible, horrible.

[OneWorldTradeCenter]

Hi guys. This tower is now officially under-construction: We should move the thread and change the diagrams: http://buildingdb.ctbuh.org/?do=buil...uilding_id=570

[Bucktown718]

Still no renderings?

[OneWorldTradeCenter]

Originally Posted by Bucktown718

Still no renderings?

No, unfortunately not, only that image from flickr (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3490/...8f9ee6_o.jpg):

[Bucktown718]

So this tower will actually look exactly like this ?

[OneWorldTradeCenter]

Originally Posted by Bucktown718

So it will actually look like this ?

I think yes. Recently I had e-mail contact with Marshall Gerometta, the database editor of the CTBUH. He promised, he will tell me if he finds out more.

[NYC4Life]

Wow, that design closely resembles the City Spire tower just a few blocks away.

[OneWorldTradeCenter]

I hope someone will draw this buildings in the diagrams, and that they´ll move it to U/C.

[Lecom]

That proposal is from the nineties, or early 2000's at best. I highly doubt it's still the current design.

[Antares41]

Originally Posted by NYC4Life

Wow, that design closely resembles the City Spire tower just a few blocks away.

Good call, I agree it does have the same basic profile. But, as much as I like City Spire I do hope this building is distinctively different given it proximity to City Spire.

[StatenIslander237]

Originally Posted by Lecom

That proposal is from the nineties, or early 2000's at best. I highly doubt it's still the current design.

And it looks nothing like de Portzamparc's style of design whatsoever. I know the yet-to-be-revealed design will blow our minds.

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by Lecom

That proposal is from the nineties, or early 2000's at best. I highly doubt it's still the current design.

Of course it's not the design. How many years have we been looking at that now? And I know the tower is gearing up for construction, but I went by the site earlier today. It's not quite in construction mode.

[Lecom]

Originally Posted by NYguy

Of course it's not the design. How many years have we been looking at that now? And I know the tower is gearing up for construction, but I went by the site earlier today. It's not quite in construction mode.

Yea, it's from the same era as the South Ferry Tower or whatever, by the same architect, from the same Postmodernism binge period. Either way, if it's built to the 953 ft height, it will help shut up Tower Verre's critics about that tower being some fucking how inappropriate for where it is.

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by Lecom

if it's built to the 953 ft height, it will help shut up Tower Verre's critics about that tower being some fucking how inappropriate for where it is.

It's a shame that this tower wasn't around to help the Tower Verre's cause. Even a rendering would have sufficed. Even though that one was approved at 1,050 ft, I can't help but feel we got robbed somehow.

[JayPro]

As long as TV and the hopefully >1,000' 157W57 are reasonably daring from an aesthetic POV, I'll be happy.

Originally Posted by NYguy

It's a shame that this tower wasn't around to help the Tower Verre's cause. Even a rendering would have sufficed. Even though that one was approved at 1,050 ft, I can't help but feel we got robbed somehow.