Where the High Line crosses 11th Avenue (first residential building, upper right)
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Fantastic news. I'd imagine if Related wants this done around the same time as the Coach tower, and will be around 800 feet tall they're gonna have to get the back rolling pretty soon. We can probably expect a render pretty soon, and given that Related got a loan for the smaller 32 story building across the street seemingly pretty easily, I think this building will come together quickly.
Is this on the part that they don't have to construct the platform over the tracks?
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Third High Line Phase Sets Tone for Neighboring Development
Diller Scofidio + Renfro will design the first residential tower for Hudson Yards, a megaproject adjacent to the acclaimed New York City park.
March 14, 2012
By Fred A. Bernstein
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The first two phases of the High Line, the elevated park by James Corner Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro, have helped spur an architectural renaissance on Manhattan’s lower west side. But the planned third phase—which will wrap around the 26-acre Hudson Yards development—may be even more transformative. That’s not only because the northern section of the line, with its level change (the railroad tracks descend to the ground at 34th Street) and sweeping curves along the Hudson River, promises to be the most dramatic section of the park. It’s also because the Related Companies’ Hudson Yards development, which is expected to contain some 13 million square feet when complete, is at the moment largely a blank slate. That means phase three of the High Line has a chance to set the architectural tone.
Literally. Just as Friends of the High Line was releasing renderings of phase three this week, Related announced that it had chosen an architect for the first residential tower in the Hudson Yards: Diller Scofidio + Renfro. The firm, whose offices overlook the High Line, has never done a high-rise building. Partner Ricardo Scofidio says he is excited about the commission. "One can argue that most architects do their best building when it’s the first commission of a type,” he says. “You're not pulling details out of a drawer."
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“Office buildings are our factories – whether for tech, creative or traditional industries we must continue to grow our modern factories to create new jobs,” said United States Senator Chuck Schumer.
That is the plan, but not the final design of the tower. It will be around 800 ft., could be a little more. Shown in the image below, the tower has a slanted roof.
In both images, it cantilevers over the "Culture Shed".
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Related to Start Second Hudson Yards Portion by Mid-2013
By David M. Levitt
September 12, 2012
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The portion of the project to start next year will include a second office tower and a 750,000-square-foot retail complex, along with a hotel and some residential units, he said. Both eastern sections should be completed by 2017, according to Ross.
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The plans call for an upscale dept. store. With Nordstrom going elsewhere, you have to assume they're wooing Neiman Marcus.
I have a very difficult time believing Neiman's would launch its first Manhattan location in such an undesirable area, especially as they already have Bergdorf's on 5th Avenue. If a department store were to locate in the Hudson Yards, I would think it would be something foreign and something new to the US market, to actually provide a splash and give recognition to the neighborhood. Harvey Nichols is a stretch, but who knows... I guess any truly luxury tenant is? (Coach is certainly not luxury and actually quite mass-market, which is why the HY are so suitable).
Just past the Culture Shed, on the 30th Street side of the site at Eleventh Avenue, is the eastern half’s only purely residential tower, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, with David Rockwell. It’s an architectural griffin, grafting together rectilinear rental units on the lower floors with flower-petal condo layouts up high—about 680 apartments in all. The fantastically idiosyncratic bulges and dimples join in complicated ways that make the glass façade look quilted.
This tower's design certainly appears to have been made much more interesting.
This may be the best looking of the group, and I like all of them.
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In the first, $6 billion phase—scheduled for completion by late 2017—the tallest tower will top the Empire State Building, and even the shortest will have a penthouse on the 75th floor.
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Just past the Culture Shed, on the 30th Street side of the site at Eleventh Avenue, is the eastern half’s only purely residential tower, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, with David Rockwell. It’s an architectural griffin, grafting together rectilinear rental units on the lower floors with flower-petal condo layouts up high—about 680 apartments in all. The fantastically idiosyncratic bulges and dimples join in complicated ways that make the glass façade look quilted.
“Office buildings are our factories – whether for tech, creative or traditional industries we must continue to grow our modern factories to create new jobs,” said United States Senator Chuck Schumer.