NEW YORK | 605 West 42nd St (Atelier II) | 656 FT | 61 FLOORS

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by Crawford

Those morons at Curbed keep getting dumber.

That pic has been on-site for years now. It isn't a downsized tower; it's just a cropped pic for the retail space.
Winick is a real estate leasing agent. They could care less about the residential portion of the project. They are marketing retail, not condos.

I thought he was just trying to make a joke, but who knows. I looked down into those waters a couple of weeks ago. It was night, but you could still tell there was a lot of water.

Originally Posted by FerrariEnzo

They should stock it with fish and open it to the public.

Hey, they're gonna open an aquarium down the street inside 11 Times Square, so why not? Maybe the should open a summer camp around the site...

"Lake Related" is no more, so 42nd Street needs a new "urban oasis".

[nlosborne3795]

Is this one still U/C?

[RoldanTTLB]

This one is still a pretty spectacular hole in the ground. Based on other 42nd street activities, it won't be that way forever, but maybe for a while still.

[tommaso]

What's the latest on this development here?

[tommaso]

i've already asked about this building, but who's got any info on this? any info whatsoever.

[RoldanTTLB]

Still a hole in the ground. This one is one of the iciest lots in Manhattan.

[RobertWalpole]

http://therealdeal.com/newyork/artic...leventh-avenue

Moinian revives plans for 42nd Street tower
September 23, 2011 03:30PM

By Katherine Clarke

[NYC4Life]

Excellent, just one of the developments that is springing back to life.

[sbarn]

I hope this one goes through a redesign.

[RobertWalpole]

Originally Posted by sbarn

I hope this one goes through a redesign.

Apparently it will.

Moinian is selling the site:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/busines...WdwrA7DKKmcVOI

[yankeesfan1000]

Moinian puts 605 West 42nd Street on the market
October 18, 2011 09:30AM

"The developer wants to find financing for a $750 million, 65-story rental apartment tower designed by Costas Kondylis on the site, located at 605 West 42nd Street near 11th Avenue. However, Moinian admitted that while he'd prefer to find financing and develop the tower himself, he is leaving the options open for a sale..."

[yankeesfan1000]

Zombie Spotted Far West of Times Square
Monday, June 18, 2012, by Dave Hogarty



"Clawing its way back to life from the dried lakebed of the former Hell's Kitchen Swimming Hole may be the nondo zombie ghost of Atelier 2. Plans for the 45-story, 764-unit tower at 604 West 42nd Street were struck down in the prime of development a few years ago as the money dried up and the foundation filled in with rain and melt water. Plans for Costas Kondylis' tower were sharply abbreviated to a possible two-story retail space, but soaring residential rents seems to have breathed new life into the building original concept. According to to The Wall Street Journal, Starwood Capital Group and Rose Associates Inc. are in talks with site developer Joseph Moinian to try again as a rental apartment."

[NYguy]

Hadn't noticed this rendering...taken from
http://www.reforum-digital.com/refor...209?pg=62#pg24











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[JayPro]

Well...there went any nominal interest in what I could have pretended to have in this tower save for the height, which for its place is good.
First we were muddling through rampant indecision and civic/political wrangling over whether it should go up in the first place.
Now with the resuscitation of plans to further its construction comes this redesign: another utterly banal sky blue glass monolith. This supposed architectural "statement", in one form or another throughout this town, has IMO crossed the border into the realm of the obnoxiously ubiquitous.
The angle on the near slab and the horizontal facade elements on the other that complimented it are gone, as is the refreshingly unique dual treatment of the cladding.
I freaking swear............Every time I detect truly substantial possibilities of a major and (more importantly) sustained departure from the architectural sissiness that plagues this town, someone just has to come along and figuratively castrate the person with the temerity to present such an idea, place his creativity in a formaldehyde-filled Mason jar and lock it in a closet somewhere.

[babybackribs2314]

I'd rate the new design a 5/10, the old design a 3/10. How is that not an improvement? The old design was incredibly basic & ugly, at least the new one is merely boring. These buildings don't need to be amazing anyways, as the Hudson Yards will totally overwhelm them, especially once the Javits is redeveloped.

[mrnyc]

yeah but ya gotta admit that kind of boring pretty much goes with the program over there.
*sighs*

[Dac150]

I tend to think these 42nd Street residential towers aren't meant to excite anyone architecturally. The skyline expansion to the Hudson River is the exciting part.

[Dylan Leblanc]

A clearer rendering

[hunser]

Apparently this one is back on track!

http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/0...o_the_west.php

Long-Stalled Atelier 2 Shows Signs Of Life Off to the West
Monday, April 1, 2013, by Sara Polsky

The plan to build Atelier 2, a condo at 605 West 42nd Street, came back to life last fall with one major modification—a switch from condo to rentals. A tipster passes along the above construction shot, and yes, it's alive. Back in 2007, the plan was for a 57-story building, according to the old DOB permit. A few modifications have recently been filed, but we didn't spot any new numbers on building height. Anyone know more?

[NYguy]

Yeah, this needs to get done already.