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Well, this might not be the rendering you guys are looking for but here's what the NY Law School library portion of this project will look like:



     
     
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Can't wait to see the first renderings. Sounds like the next Beekman tower

It's like Beekman in more ways than one...

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Tribeca skyscraper to get sculpture

By Steve Cutler
7/01/08

Apparently, having Priztker Prize winning architects Herzog & de Meuron, the Swiss designers of Ian Schrager's much hyped 40 Bond Street, design the 50-plus-story condominium at Leonard and Church streets in Tribeca wasn't enough for the project's developer, New York City-based Alexico Group.

Izak Senbahar and Simon Elias, Alexico's principals, have announced that 56 Leonard will get a permanent public sculpture by London-based, Turner Prize-winning artist Anish Kapoor.

Kapoor gained wide recognition in the 1980s for his richly colored geometric sculptures employing simple forms and organic materials such as granite, limestone, marble, pigment and plaster. Working on a grand scale since the late 1990s, Kapoor has produced such formidable structures as the 115-foot-tall Taratantara in Gateshead, England; the 110-ton stainless steel Cloud Gate in Chicago's Millennium Park; and Sky Mirror, a 35-foot-diameter concave mirror shown in 2006 at Rockefeller Center in New York City.

Alexico plans to reveal the design for 56 Leonard Street in the fall. The tower's foundation is already under construction and completion is slated for spring 2010.

Alexico's portfolio includes The Mark at 25 East 77th Street, designed by Jacques Grange, and 165 Charles Street in the West Village, designed by Richard Meier.

Following 40 Bond, 56 Leonard Street is Herzog & de Meuron's second residential commission in New York City.
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The red, art-déco tower will be a nice companion to the new tower.
     
     
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40 Bond is alright. I didn't think it was anything to write home about. Although a 60 story 40 Bond would be really impressive looking. Im still excited. Especially since I'm left with egg on my face after how delicious looking Beekman turned out to be after it was finally revealed
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Alexico Group Announces Manhattan Commission to Architects Herzog & De Meuron and Artist Anish Kapoor

Saturday, July 5, 2008

NEW YORK.- Izak Senbahar and Simon Elias, principals of New York City-based real estate development company Alexico Group LLC, announced that Alexico will construct a path-breaking new residential tower designed by internationally renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron of Basel, Switzerland.

One of the most admired firms internationally, Herzog & de Meuron has received the Pritzker Prize, architecture’s highest honor, as well as resounding worldwide accolades for such landmark buildings as the new Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Olympic Games in China and the Allianz Arena in Munich; the conversion of the Bankside Power Station for the Tate Modern in London; the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; and the new de Young Museum in San Francisco.

The first major tower to be realized by its celebrated designers, Alexico’s building will stand in the Tribeca Historic District at the intersection of Leonard and Church Streets, and will be named for its site: 56 Leonard Street.

Alexico expects to reveal the design for 56 Leonard Street in fall 2008. Senbahar and Elias also announced today that they have commissioned a monumental work of public sculpture by celebrated London-based artist Anish Kapoor, recipient of the coveted Turner Prize, to be fully integrated into Herzog & de Meuron’s architecture at the ground level. Engaging both the building and the surrounding streetscape, this permanent site-specific work is intended as a gift to the city and a nod to New York’s enduring role as a global cultural capital where great art and architecture are essential parts of everyday life.

Senbahar and Elias commented, “We are pleased and honored to be able to create a tower of true global character at a moment when great architectural ferment is reshaping New York City. Through this commission we aspire to make a unique contribution to the urban fabric of our town with a building that relates directly to the city but is also an outstanding international address.”

Development partners Izak Senbahar and Simon Elias collectively have over 50 years of experience in the fields of development, construction, property ownership, and management of Manhattan residential real estate. Their portfolio has included some of New York’s most prestigious properties, establishing them as leaders in their field with a commitment to design excellence, as evidenced in such acclaimed projects as The Mark by Jacques Grange and 165 Charles Street by Richard Meier.

The partners are also active on a broader national and international stage, with properties in Great Britain and Israel as well as New York and Washington, D.C.
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This one is becoming more and more exciting. Can't wait for the renders in a few months.
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This one is becoming more and more exciting. Can't wait for the renders in a few months.
Yeah, I've become more excited about the design:

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Senbahar and Elias also announced today that they have commissioned a monumental work of public sculpture
by celebrated London-based artist Anish Kapoor, to be fully integrated into Herzog & de Meuron’s architecture
at the ground level. Engaging both the building and the surrounding streetscape, this permanent site-specific
work is intended as a gift to the city
and a nod to New York’s enduring role as a global cultural capital where
great art and architecture are essential parts of everyday life.

Senbahar and Elias commented, “We are pleased and honored to be able to create a tower of true global
character at a moment when great architectural ferment is reshaping New York City. Through this commission
we aspire to make a unique contribution to the urban fabric of our town with a building that relates directly to the city
Though technically not a part of the civic center, it's a good location for a "gift" to the city, and a future landmark
in its own right. I just hope 33 Thomas (old AT&T building) doesn't create too much of a distraction...


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NYC has its share of eyesores, but this AT&T building and the Verizon Building at Pearl Street are just utterly disgusting.
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Actually, AT&T is the best they could've done with a communications building. As far as those go, it's not bad at all. Compare it to, say, the Verizon building in Clinton. Now THAT's an eyesore.
     
     
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NYC has its share of eyesores, but this AT&T building and the Verizon Building at Pearl Street are just utterly disgusting.
I love those two buildings. I view it as such a loss that the Pearl is getting taken away.
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Actually, AT&T is the best they could've done with a communications building. As far as those go, it's not bad at all.
The best they could have done? I dont' think so, but that's besides the point. It's a piece of crap. A giant paper bag. The Verizon building at Pearl Street puts it to shame, and that one is no beauty.
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A New Tower For Tribeca

by Sophie Dawson
July 7, 2008


What do you get when you combine internationally renowned architects, a flashy sculpture by a top London artist, and prime New York City real estate? 56 Leonard Street.

Last week, New York-based developer Alexico Group announced that it hired the architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron to create what promises to be a spectacular residential building located at the intersection of Leonard and Church streets in the Tribeca Historic District. In addition to receiving the coveted Pritzker Price (architecture’s version of the Pulitzer), Herzog & de Meuron has been the mastermind behind several celebrated works worldwide, including the Beijing National Stadium, also known as “the birds nest.” The new Tribeca building should be completed in 2010.

Izak Senbahar and Simon Elias, principal developers of Alexico Group, commissioned a public sculpture by Anish Kapoor to be integrated into the ground level of the building. Kapoor has created several eye-popping, curvaceous sculptural commissions and large museum works around the world, and is a recipient of the prestigious Turner Prize—an annual prize organized by the Tate gallery awarded to an outstanding conceptual artist under the age of 50.

Although the building’s design will remain hush-hush until its public unveiling in the fall, when the sales office for 56 Leonard will officially open for business, the offering plan for the tower was approved last Thursday, clearing the way for the developers to begin selling residences. And sell they have: a handful of in-the-know insiders and international VIPs quietly snapped up apartments with panoramic views of the East and Hudson rivers, signing contracts over the holiday weekend.

Looks like they’ll be watching the fireworks from 56 Leonard in 2010.
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Wow this is good news. Thanks, NYGuy.
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Wow this is good news. Thanks, NYGuy.
I only regret that we have to wait until the fall to see it, but that's just a few months away...

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Famed Architect's Tower To Soar in TriBeCa
Herzog & de Meuron Designs One of City's Tallest Condominiums


By PETER KIEFER, Staff Reporter of the Sun | July 31, 2008



Some units have already been sold in a new Manhattan building designed by architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron, which won the Pritzker Prize and is behind Ian Schrager's 40 Bond St. condominium and the Tate Modern Museum of Art in London.

The building at 56 Leonard St., at the corner of Church Street in TriBeCa, will be one of the tallest residential towers in New York City.

Construction on the 57-story luxury condominium is quietly under way in TriBeCa, one project that does not appear to have been delayed by the slowing economy.

The Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group is representing the building, and there have already been a "handful" of sales, a spokeswoman for the building's developer, the Alexico Group, Andrea Schwan, said.

Plans for the 800-foot-tall building have not been made public, but community board members who were briefed on the design by representatives of the developer described it as a stacked, cube structure that will house several penthouses. It will have 145 apartments and a large public sculpture at ground level by the artist Anish Kapoor. The building is expected to be complete by 2010, and the construction costs alone are said to run about $350 million.

The Alexico Group acquired the site for the tower from New York Law School for a reported $140 million in 2006. The school sold the land, which was the site of the former Mendik Library, and is building a new nine-story library on an adjacent lot.

The block where the Alexico Group is building the luxury condo is designated "as of right," so there was no need for city approvals, and the site is not subject to the 120-foot zoning height caps that affect much of the district.

While 56 Leonard St. will be one of the tallest 15 buildings in the city when it is built, it will eventually be dwarfed by neighboring development projects in Lower Manhattan as builders reach higher and higher to maximize their return on the scarce resource of Manhattan land.

Topping out at 1,776 feet, the Freedom Tower at ground zero will more than double the height of 56 Leonard St. Also at the World Trade Center site, Tower 2 will soar 1,270 feet, topped off by an 80-foot antenna, while Tower 3 and Tower 4 will rise 1,140 feet and 975 feet, respectively.

There is also a wave of residential buildings coming to the area, including Larry Silverstein's new tower at 99 Church St., which will rise 912 feet to 80 stories, and Forest City Ratner's Beekman Tower at 8 Spruce St., designed by Frank Gehry and reaching 867 feet to 76 stories.

"In 20 years, this is going to look like a brownstone," a professor of urban policy and planning at New York University, Mitchell Moss, said of 56 Leonard St. "This is really quite modest in relation to what is going on further south."

The median sales price of a condominium downtown is $1.3 million, according to the second quarter market report from Prudential Douglas Elliman.

"Lower Manhattan is one of the hottest neighborhoods in the city," Mr. Moss said, adding that TriBeCa "is in the epicenter."

The proposed height of the building had troubled at least one neighborhood official. "We are very frustrated by it and wouldn't permit anything like it to be built in northern TriBeCa," the president of the local community board 1, Julie Menin, said.
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I only regret that we have to wait until the fall to see it, but that's just a few months away...

Another look at location from Bobby Wylie

I hope they replace the POS directly south of AT&T as soon as possible. Would be a great place to put up a decent-sized tower, maybe even office, with all floorplates opening mainly to the south, east and west while the north would feature the core that'd face AT&T.
     
     
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The building at 56 Leonard St., at the corner of Church Street in TriBeCa, will be one of the tallest residential towers in New York City.

Plans for the 800-foot-tall building have not been made public, but community board members who were briefed on the design by representatives of the developer described it as a stacked, cube structure that will house several penthouses. It will have 145 apartments and a large public sculpture at ground level by the artist Anish Kapoor.

The block where the Alexico Group is building the luxury condo is designated "as of right," so there was no need for city approvals, and the site is not subject to the 120-foot zoning height caps that affect much of the district.

While 56 Leonard St. will be one of the tallest 15 buildings in the city when it is built, it will eventually be dwarfed by neighboring development projects in Lower Manhattan

There is also a wave of residential buildings coming to the area, including Larry Silverstein's new tower at 99 Church St., which will rise 912 feet to 80 stories, and Forest City Ratner's Beekman Tower at 8 Spruce St., designed by Frank Gehry and reaching 867 feet to 76 stories.

"In 20 years, this is going to look like a brownstone," a professor of urban policy and planning at New York University, Mitchell Moss, said of 56 Leonard St. "This is really quite modest in relation to what is going on further south."
All music to my ears...
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I wonder how they found a parcel in the mostly low-rize, tightly-zoned TriBeCa that can support an 800-foot tower as of right.
     
     
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I wonder how they found a parcel in the mostly low-rize, tightly-zoned TriBeCa that can support an 800-foot tower as of right.
I'm not sure where the borders of that zoning cap are, but apparently it's one of the pockets that allows it. Like the Tower Verre, it's not really a "large" tower, but this one will definitely stand out in the area due to it's height. But it could be the sculpture at ground level that really makes this one stand out as a landmark, we'll just have to wait and see.
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To the ire of Tribeca residents, the city left out Church Street when Tribeca was downzoned.
     
     
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