NEW YORK | Baccarat (20 W 53rd St) | 606 FT |48 FLOORS - Page 11

ILNY · #**201** Posted **Jun 24, 2014, 2:59 AM**

mrnyc · #**202** Posted **Jul 1, 2014, 7:27 PM**

yesterday

Design-mind · #**203** Posted **Jul 23, 2014, 2:02 AM**

From my visit to NYC this week. I was also very impressed with the cladding of this building.

Surrealplaces · #**204** Posted **Jul 23, 2014, 5:19 PM**

Nice shot DM! Was that from the top of the rock?

Design-mind · #**205** Posted **Jul 23, 2014, 6:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by Surrealplaces

Nice shot DM! Was that from the top of the rock?

Sure was! Very good views!

Submariner · #**206** Posted **Jul 23, 2014, 7:07 PM**

I haven't seen it in quite some time, but yes, the cladding does appear to be very HQ.

Pete8680 · #**207** Posted **Sep 24, 2014, 11:56 PM**

This baby came out nice. 606 feet is a baby skyscraper 4 NYC. But almost anywhere else in America it will b king!

Perklol · #**208** Posted **Sep 26, 2014, 11:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by RobertWalpole

http://ny.curbed.com/archives/catego...dtown_west.php

Unarrested Development

Midtown's Library-Hotel Plan Becomes Library-Condo-Hotel Plan
Three years ago the NYPL's aging five-story Donnell Library on West 53rd Street across from MoMA was shuttered as part of a unique arrangement. Orient-Express Hotels agreed to purchase the building for $59 million and build a new 11-story luxury hotel on the site, with a new space for a smaller library included in the deal. That plan fell victim to the credit crunch, but now it's back with some new details, and new developers: Tribeca Associates (of Smyth Hotel and Artisan Lofts fame), and a little company called Starwood Hotels. Crain's reports the duo are swooping in on the still-standing Donnell branch, and they have the NYPL's blessing. The plan is to build a $400 million, 260,000-square-foot building with hotel rooms and condo units. The deal could still fall apart, so don't get too excited about a reopened library just yet, people who are too cheap to buy books.

I can't believe the Cubed intern really wrote that

Anyway, never liked this building. Its a cheap looking eyesore.

ILNY · #**209** Posted **Sep 27, 2014, 3:34 AM**

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Originally Posted by Eveningsong

Anyway, never liked this building. Its a cheap looking eyesore.

You are exaggerating, it's not an eyesore.