NEW YORK | 270 Park Ave | 1,389 FT | 57 FLOORS

[JMKeynes]

Praise The Lord!

[pianowizard]

Originally Posted by jogiba

Glad to see 1WTC drop further to 5th place by roof height. Also, I just stumbled upon this:

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...new-york-city/

[tdawg]

This might be my favorite Norman Foster design to date.

[JMKeynes]

Originally Posted by tdawg

This might be my favorite Norman Foster design to date.

I agree.

[colemonkee]

I'm still partial to Hearst Tower - also an amazing lobby - and 30 St. Mary's Axe (The Gherkin) in London. The Reichtstag restoration in Berlin is also both symbolically and aesthetically pretty amazing if you've seen it in person, and HSBC Hong Kong still holds up both conceptually and aesthetically. This tower will be amazing from an engineering and skyline perspective, but I think those are better architectural acheivements.

[rgarri4]

I wish Foster would carry over some of this buildings style and grace over to his horrendous design for PEN15.

[NYguy]

If the renderings are an indication, this tower will be lit up like a Christmas tree from head to toe.

















https://www.instagram.com/p/Ccnvuj7pqR-/

[JMKeynes]

Praise The Lord!

[NYguy]

[JMKeynes]

ICON!!!

[Busy Bee]

Still dont care for the compressed diamonds. Would have looked better as triangles of the same size.


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[Hudson11]

I disagree. There's nothing like the diamond motif on the NYC skyline. But you just have to look at the rendering above for an example of a triangle. (Citigroup/ 601 Lex)

[NYguy]

I think it would look better with a couple of even smaller diamonds added to the top. But it’s already a good design that even New Yorkers who don’t care about skyscrapers (which is most) will come to know and recognize.

[NYguy]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CcpOFxHr2Eq/

[JMKeynes]

Good Lord! This building is simply extraordinary! It screams: “ Financial Capital of the World!”

I hope that 175 Park, in the words of Emiryl LaGasse: “Kicks it up a ‘nawch’”!

[rivernorthlurker]

Originally Posted by Busy Bee

Still dont care for the compressed diamonds. Would have looked better as triangles of the same size.


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I only now realized that the diamond motif gets gradually more 'compressed' as you go up each setback. Before they looked a bit random to me. Now realizing this it feels a bit more harmonious and I like it more.

And as incredible as the form is, I'm more excited for and think this will be one of the leading and most impressive interiors to any skyscraper in the world. For one, the lobby is already A++. but I'm interested in seeing these monstrous 20'+ ceiling sky amenity/lounges with multiple rooftop terraces and mind boggling NYC views. This feels like the beginning of a new era/standard of a skyscraper to me, with 175 Park following this lead. Maybe a bit like the Chrysler and ESB one two punches a century ago.

[Drcastro]

Does this building have an unusually large proportion of mechanical floors? Just from the renderings above, not counting floor 2 (or 3, whatever the one just above the lobby is) and the last skinny section at the top, I count 21 mechanical floors, based on “louvered” façade.

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by Drcastro

Does this building have an unusually large proportion of mechanical floors? Just from the renderings above, not counting floor 2 (or 3, whatever the one just above the lobby is) and the last skinny section at the top, I count 21 mechanical floors, based on “louvered” façade.

Not an unusual amount of mechanical space, though not having sublevels pushed some things up. What it has is a lot of amenity space, something the older buildings weren’t designed to accomodate. For example, the top 3 floors of the first section is basically a public space for employees. And there is more of that throughout the building. And of course, the unusually high ceilings, another amenity the new buildings have.

[NYguy]

https://www.instagram.com/p/Ccs2BvPrt_A/

[Drcastro]

Originally Posted by NYguy

Not an unusual amount of mechanical space, though not having sublevels pushed some things up. What it has is a lot of amenity space, something the older buildings weren’t designed to accomodate. For example, the top 3 floors of the first section is basically a public space for employees. And there is more of that throughout the building. And of course, the unusually high ceilings, another amenity the new buildings have.

Good point.

I suspect strongly that there must be mechanical levels below 52 that are not labeled in this diagram, especially given the way the façade is rendered. The changes in appearance look functional, not aesthetic.