NEW YORK | American Copper Buildings (616 First Ave) | 470 FT | 40 & 49 FLOORS - Page 6

Hypothalamus · #**101** Posted **Jun 13, 2015, 2:18 AM**

The façade is fantastic! What a treat!

chris08876 · #**102** Posted **Jun 29, 2015, 9:02 PM**

Credit: Tectonic

PeterQM · #**103** Posted **Jul 13, 2015, 7:44 PM**

http://www.6sqft.com/new-video-revea...river-skyline/
By Ondel Hylton
July 13, 2015

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SHoP Architects‘ copper-clad fraternal pair of towers is finally rising along the East River, and a handful of newly uncovered images and a fly-through video reassure us that this dancing couple will be the boldest addition to the East River skyline in decades.

To read/see more

sbarn · #**104** Posted **Jul 13, 2015, 7:59 PM**

What is that massive building a block to the south of this project?

PeterQM · #**105** Posted **Jul 13, 2015, 9:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by sbarn

What is that massive building a block to the south of this project?

Kimmel Pavilion at NYU Langone Medical Center

CityGuy87 · #**106** Posted **Jul 13, 2015, 9:23 PM**

Why is One Vanderbilt so bulky in that render?

Zapatan · #**107** Posted **Jul 14, 2015, 4:03 AM**

The facade is just incredible, I love this building already!

SSC has these listed as 540' to the top of the tallest tower BTW not 470' which by the renderings looks more accurate.

chris08876 · #**108** Posted **Jul 15, 2015, 12:13 PM**

Credit: https://instagram.com/p/5AzBuUgKMB/

Vertical_Gotham · #**109** Posted **Jul 30, 2015, 7:19 PM**

626 First Ave via Field Condition
http://fieldcondition.com/blog/2015/...6-first-avenue

patriotizzy · #**110** Posted **Jul 31, 2015, 5:37 PM**

The facade looks shiny. Is it bronze, or some kind of cheaper replica of that metal? It's looking mighty fine already!

Hudson11 · #**111** Posted **Jul 31, 2015, 5:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by patriotizzy

The facade looks shiny. Is it bronze, or some kind of cheaper replica of that metal? It's looking mighty fine already!

copper.

sparkling · #**112** Posted **Aug 28, 2015, 3:57 PM**

Solow files plans for 42-story tower on East Side
Proposed building is part of long-stalled $4 billion development project

August 28, 2015
Rich Bockmann

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Reclusive billionaire developer Sheldon Solow filed plans to build a 42-story mixed-use tower adjacent to his long-vacant development site along the East River, records show.

The owner of one of the city’s most expensive office buildings, 9 West 57, and a portfolio of East Side rental towers, Solow submitted plans to build a 700,000-square-foot apartment tower with 550 units at 685 First Avenue, according to an application filed with the Department of Buildings Friday.

The site, currently home to a parking lot, sits across First Avenue from a six-acre lot Solow bought from Con Edison in 2005 for $109 million.

Plans call for roughly 10,000 square feet of commercial space, including retail, and another 56,000 for manufacturing.

Solow owns a number of sites along the East River that had figured into his $4 billion redevelopment plan for the area. He’s sold off portions in recent years.

In 2010, Solow sold a site at the northeast corner of First Avenue and 35th Street to the city’s School Construction Authority for $33.25 million.

He also sold the remaining portion of that full block in 2013 for $172 million to JDS Development, which is constructing the 800-unit 626 First Avenue on the property.

- See more at: http://therealdeal.com/blog/2015/08/....GlahBmL3.dpuf

Vertical_Gotham · #**113** Posted **Aug 28, 2015, 4:12 PM**

^Good News!! Yehay.

685 First Ave
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...65#post7145665

artspook · #**114** Posted **Aug 28, 2015, 6:35 PM**

At first I thought it was Cor-Ten Steel . . Yippie ! . .
then I saw it as woodgrain ! . . uh-oh . .
so it's copper . . ok great . . still looks "woodgrainy" . . is it gonna turn green ? . .
maybe it's coated . . then it won't . . looks pretty spooked-out so far . .

chris08876 · #**115** Posted **Sep 17, 2015, 9:53 PM**

Credit: http://imgur.com/rpczoCr

chris08876 · #**116** Posted **Sep 18, 2015, 10:44 PM**

Some renderings:

Credit: http://www.shoparc.com/projects/626-first-avenue/

patriotizzy · #**117** Posted **Sep 21, 2015, 5:23 PM**

OMG I love this. One of NYC's best developments, after Hudson Yards.

chris08876 · #**118** Posted **Sep 25, 2015, 12:45 PM**

Credit: https://instagram.com/p/78gPH7SZOc/

chris08876 · #**119** Posted **Oct 7, 2015, 9:58 PM**

Credit: FC

599GTO · #**120** Posted **Oct 8, 2015, 12:14 AM**

This looks great. Development like this is sorely needed to mask the horrendous 1980s high-rises lining that section of the east side.

And there is some terrible, massive, vacant lot I see when driving down the FDR. What's going on with that?