NEW YORK | New York Coliseum Tower | 1,535 FT / 468 M | 135 FLOORS | NEVER BUILT

scalziand · #1 Posted: **Jan 30, 2010, 8:12 AM**

I found this picture of a model of a proposal to redevelop the New York Coliseum, before the Time-Warner Center was eventually built. I can't find any other information on it though, such as the height or the floor count.

It looks like it would have been a handsome tower if it were built.

Dac150 · #2 Posted: **Jan 30, 2010, 7:22 PM**

I'd take TWC over it any day.

CGII · #3 Posted: **Jan 30, 2010, 7:55 PM**

Looks like Tower Verre from the imagination of Helmut Jahn.

NYguy · #4 Posted: **Jan 31, 2010, 1:19 PM**

Just from what I remember off the top of my head, 1,535 ft and 135 stories. It was proposed around the same time Donald Trump was proposing his 150-story 1,670 ft Television City tower. I also seem to recall a second version of this tower being proposed for Phoenix. There were a few other proposals for the Coliseum site.

Swede · #5 Posted: **Feb 3, 2010, 2:34 AM**

This tower instead of the TWC would have been sweet. I kinda like the TWC, but this one would have been a great corner piece for the Park.

btw - I'd love a plugin for Google Earth called "unbuilt NYC" which would add all these unbuilt towers (of course, you'd be able to pick which ones you want).

NYguy · #6 Posted: **Feb 4, 2010, 2:55 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Swede

This tower instead of the TWC would have been sweet. I kinda like the TWC, but this one would have been a great corner piece for the Park.

I like that design also, it would have added a great focal point to that area of the Manhattan skyliine. The TWC is nice, but "safe" 700 footers that don't challenge the skyline enough, even if a lot taller than anything that was there before.

scalziand · #7 Posted: **Mar 16, 2010, 12:52 AM**

I did some more digging.

From the August 1991 issue of Modern Steel Construction:

Quote:

Rocketing to New Heights

ABSTRACT: Architect Eli Attia's proposal for the old Coliseum site in New York City would have produced the world's tallest building. Attia's plan was for a 137-story, mixed-use tower. The design was intended to reflect the significance of the site. The tower is composed of two major elements: an 85 feet-high arcaded granite base that covers the full site and a decagonal tower of polychrome glass that steps back to rise to a height of 1,600 feet. This article describes the architectural design along with the tapered steel structure consisting of a three-dimensional steel truss system. Vertical and horizontal forces, especially wind stresses are resolved in diagonal peripheral members.

(1991). "Rocketing to new heights". Modern steel construction (0026-8445), 31 (8), p. 19.

Hunting down the actual article is proving to be hard.

scalziand · #8 Posted: **Mar 26, 2010, 11:33 PM**

Finally got a hold of the article.
Turns out it's about one of the other proposals for Columbus Circle.

Bummer.

Infernal_Elf · #9 Posted: **Apr 16, 2010, 10:09 PM**

it reminds me alot of bank of china tower. may be very much realted

NYguy · #10 Posted: **Apr 23, 2010, 6:21 AM**

I don't remember the exact magazine I saw the article in, but it was late 80's, and there was a similar design being discussed for Phoenix.

IMBY · #11 Posted: **Dec 19, 2012, 10:26 AM**

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Originally Posted by Infernal_Elf

it reminds me alot of bank of china tower. may be very much realted

That's what I thought the minute I saw it, our very own Bank of China tower, and given that's one of my favorite towers in the world, I'd like to see a dozen of them elsewhere in the world!

Ah, the triangular architecture!