They say it will be 26 floors, but hopefully that will either grow or the ceiling heights will be very high to cater to these high end clients.
In order to have Central Park views for most floors this will have to go pretty tall, not supertall, but still tall. I could see this ending up as 600-700 feet, even at 26 floors, if they have a very tall lobby and base and then 20 foot ceilings for each floor. |
Yeah, there will be a way to get those park views. That will be the draw here.
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they are destroying any class that 57th Street once had. All of the stately old masonry buildings ... all the class of the area around 5th and 6th Avenues ... basically all going down the toilet. One of the city's premier streets will be basically all-glass, all-modernist Anywhereville. No history whatsoever. It's a damn shame. This city really needs to landmark everything pre-WWII and let everything else be fair game. It's how Europe's premier cities do it. |
It would be nice if they incorporate the existing towers into their skyscrapers. Speaking in general here, in which the existing towers or structures are ones that are treasures to begin with. Like with what 111 W 57th did, which is a renovation/addition as opposed to new construction/demolishing the whole existing structure. Its just a hell of an addition.
For some of these structures to go, it would make sense if the replacement is exquisite, but seems to be rare cases where such a scenario occurs. Kinda a struggle, as the structures that are blight seem to remain, yet the treasures see the wrecking ball. |
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Permits Filed For 26-Story Building At 125 West 57th Street In Midtown, Manhattan
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So will every building here come down, on both streets, meaning the new building will abut One57? The residential square footage is interesting. 1.5 million is a Hell of a lot for 26 stories.
I wonder if there's any way this won't be a squat, glass hulk? |
Either this building has a massive footprint to squeeze that much FAR in such a short height, or the 419' figure is just a placeholder in the permit fillings, and will be updated with a taller figure later.
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And this is the only building coming down? It isn't part of a site assemblage?
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57th Street is rapidly going from one of the most classic / classiest streets in Manhattan to ... Hudson Yards on the Street Grid.
All possible thumbs down. Blanket Landmarking for All Pre-WWII Structures! Not like any of the commies / real-estate lobby toadies who tend to run for mayor or City Council care about the city actually being a nice place... |
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800K residential space is larger than all of 432 Park so I think this will most likely be bumped up substantially
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The lot in question those figures come from is 111,000 sf and about 600 ft street frontage. So we're talking multiple sites, of which this one site is probably just a part of.
https://a4.pbase.com/o12/06/102706/1...Nq7yKx.lot.JPG The lots in question would include One57: https://a4.pbase.com/o12/06/102706/1...DTBU.lot2b.JPG The 57th Street side... https://a4.pbase.com/o12/06/102706/1...00819_106b.JPG https://a4.pbase.com/o12/06/102706/1...00819_110b.JPG |
It's a pity the facades won't be preserved. Demolish the insides completely and replace them with double height, through-block office floors with cantilevered, column free ceilings, extending across both buildings which handily have the same window configuration. Each floor would have a double height row of two windows atop each other.
That might cover the entire commercial allocation, and build something contextual on top, toward the 58th street side, up to around 1200', for the residential portion. This would create a handsome staircase effect between One57 and Steinway. But no, just Taer It Dahn! Nothing worth preserving here! :uhh: |
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FX Fowle will be the architect, so this should be nice.
http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/Jo...ssdocnumber=01 https://www.alchemy-properties.com/a...folio/#current |
I’m eager to see the design. It would be nice if the developers could acquire the bland, black building to the west.
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