[TonyNYC]

Although you'd think they would just stack it atop of the existing tower.
^I think its entirely possible that is what they are doing, and the author of the article just misunderstood/his source was misinformed.

If I recall correctly, when the news first broke about 425 Park Avenue, and even in later articles, that was also referred to as a demolition.



It could be but it's probably easier to have a complete tear down and go with something entirely new then to do what they did at 425 Park. At 425 Park , they tore it down to it's bones and started from there.. limiting it's options going forward in design and build.

The Singer building(612FT) held the title of tallest buildings ever voluntarily torn down.. 277 Park will be come the title holder very soon!

Within a decade or so.. Midtown East is gonna rival any business district in the world with supertalls! Gonna be fun to watch it transform starting with 1 Vanderbilt and 277 Park. BTW- 277 Park at 1200FT not enough for me.. hoping it reaches closer to 1400-1500Ft!!