NEW YORK | 270 Park Ave | 1,389 FT | 57 FLOORS

[madrian]

Cladding making it’s way to the top

[NYguy]

^ It does look better and better with the cladding reaching the top.

[pianowizard]

^ In these photos, 270 Park Ave and One Vandy look a bit like twins!

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by pianowizard

^ In these photos, 270 Park Ave and One Vandy look a bit like twins!

And there will be a few skyscrapers squeezed in between, including 343 Madison and the Roosevelt Hotel tower.


Rough outline of area where some of the new towers coming are rising or planned (not including everything).

[NYguy]

The more of 270 Park I see in renderings, the more I think the diamonds will be lit...

[NYC-Graffhead91]

Took this (May/03/2024)

[TK2001]

270 Park Avenue May 2019 and May 2024 by Philly SkyGuy, on Flickr

[mrnyc]

Originally Posted by BrickellBased

Oh wow I never saw this stuff with Kiss etc for the ESB. Thanks.

Well that's some nice lighting tech - should be exciting.

wait a minute -- if i read that right i think the chase tower will have its own internal animation screening capabilities, is that correct?

the esb animations are just projected on the building, ie., :

How do they project images on the Empire State Building?

To project upon the 375' x 186' building, Threlkel used 40 stacked, 20,000-lumen projectors, including 26 Christie® Roadster HD20K-J and 12 Christie Roadster S+22K-J projectors, which were set up on the roof of a building on West 31st Street, according to The New York Times.

[ChaseM]

The cladding is going up quicker and quicker with each setback they reach, I imagine the top two setbacks will get cladded pretty quickly.

[TK2001]

270 Park Avenue by Philly SkyGuy, on Flickr

[NYguy]

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[ChiND]

Seeing this photo makes me eager for demo to start at 350 Park.

[twalm]

Good lord this building is massive.

[uaarkson]

This tower is a masterpiece, and it’s not even finished.

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by twalm

Good lord this building is massive.

And it’s partially hidden by other buildings, but it’s a beast.

Originally Posted by uaarkson

This tower is a masterpiece, and it’s not even finished.

The closer the cladding gets to the top, the better it looks.



https://www.reflector.com/news/natio...182ac874d.html

The Empire State building is seen through the George Washington Bridge at sunset, Thursday, May 2, 2024, in New York.

Julia Nikhinson - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS

[NYguy]

Rendering of the older design…

https://heintges.com/270-park-avenue/

[Rooted Arborial]

This building is not a masterpiece.
It is impressive in scale and it does add an interesting use of proportion and tone of color - mainly on the North/South elevations - with the strong verticals and horizontals,
but the Diamond patterned sides and the way it meets the street level seems as if it was designed backwards.
It attenuates the diamond pattern downward so that the diamond shapes seem to become heavier or stunted as they rise and then the terribly heavy-handed brutality of the massive fanned diagonals at the base look as if the architect over-reached and had to cobble together a brutalist jerry-build repair. The end result at ground level looks like a desperate girdle on a bloated base.

I find myself wondering why we've gone from "less is more" to what appears to be an insistent need to prove that more is less. Of course it could simply be that this was inevitable in order to reflect the "master"minds who commissioned it.

This building seems like a brutal failure of prudent creativity at ground level. That's not quite the statement I would like to see from any bank.

[DeSelby]

Ground level is the most impressive part of this tower, and will be even more so when it’s finished and you can see straight through the lobby from Park to Madison. Those fanned structural columns are awe-inspiring. An impressive marriage of architecture and engineering.