Holy crap! A 1,400 foot-tall Zaha Hadid!? I must be dreaming
Real Estate heavyweights mull turning Fifth Ave. tower into mall
By Lois Weiss
September 10, 2015 | 12:02am
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Real estate heavyweights Steve Roth and Jared Kushner are mulling a plan to reposition the 1957-era aluminum-clad 666 Fifth Ave. office tower into a 1,400-foot vertical mall, hotel and residential tower.
The Post has also learned that Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid has already prepared a scheme that would restack the current 41-story building into a slender, super-tall hotel and residential tower above a vertical retail podium.
Because of its location, a significant part of the tower would have unobstructed views of Central Park.
While a partner in the office portion — Roth’s company, Vornado Realty Corp. — controls the building’s Fifth Avenue retail condominium, which they purchased from Kushner Companies, Carlyle and Crown Acquisitions in 2012 for $710 million.
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