NEW YORK | 175 Park Avenue (Grand Hyatt) | 1,575 FT | 85 FLOORS

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Does anyone know when they’re going to start demolition of the Hyatt?

Sometime in late 2022 or early-mid 2023

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A daily reminder that not only are we getting a masterpiece, we’re tearing down a disgrace at the same time.

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Indeed!

Should have been expected. The original developers chose this location because of its strategic importance right next to GC, completely unsurprising that they weren’t the only developers to recognize it. If the depression hadn’t hit then it probably would have been covered by now anyway

Per NYguy:

The Ever-Shrinking Chrysler Building
Thanks to New York’s Midtown East rezoning plan, a spate of supertalls are underway that will completely overwhelm the once-dominant Chrysler Building.

RYAN WADDOUPS

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The Manhattan skyline looks drastically different today than a decade ago, long before the emergence of the skewer-like supertalls on Billionaire’s Row or the oft-maligned glass fortress of Hudson Yards. One district in particular is gearing up for a drastic–if not gradual–reinvention thanks to amendments to rigid zoning laws championed by former Mayor Bill De Blasio. The Midtown East rezoning plan stipulates that developers can build larger skyscrapers in the neighborhood, long anchored by the Chrysler Building, in exchange for financing transit improvements and public space.

The first new project to benefit from the policy is 270 Park Avenue, a 1,388-foot-tall office tower designed by Foster + Partners and Vishaan Chakrabarti’s Practice for Architecture and Urbanism that’s slated to be the city’s largest all-electric skyscraper when construction wraps in 2025. It replaces the Union Carbide Building, a 52-story International Style tower that critics described as “the incarnation of white-collar America” but became the world’s tallest building to be voluntarily demolished despite architecture circles vying for its preservation. Renderings of the replacement depict a hulking glassy tower defined by triangular window bracing and a wedding cake shape that references setbacks typical of traditional Manhattan silhouettes.

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270 Park Avenue is the latest entry into the skyward developer arms race that is heralding an era of change for the area–and dwarfing the Chrysler Building, which once reigned as the city’s tallest structure. The 1,401-foot-tall One Vanderbilt turned heads when it was unveiled in late 2020, but will soon sit in the shadows of the recently approved 175 Park Avenue, a behemoth designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill that tops out 250 feet higher. Gensler’s boxy Tower Fifth, proposed a few blocks north, may become a taller, flashier version of the neighboring 432 Park Avenue. Meanwhile, Vornado Realty is working on securing approvals for the 1,450-foot-tall 350 Park Avenue, also by Foster + Partners.

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The scale of this new construction is largely unprecedented in the city, and if it proceeds as planned, the Chrysler Building will be completely overwhelmed by its colossal neighbors. When the city first announced the Midtown East rezoning plan, the Municipal Art Society was quick to weigh in about the beloved Art Deco skyscraper’s fate. “The verifiable photo simulations show how iconic buildings such as the Chrysler Building will not be visible from many vantage points if development occurs as proposed,” the organization wrote in 2013.

Developers hardly seem to care: In 2019, Tishman Speyer listed the aging building for a cool $150 million-- $19 million less than the penthouse at 432 Park. Aby Rosen quickly snapped it up and announced an ambitious $200 million revitalization plan that’s in progress, but was hamstrung by the pandemic. “It has lost a little bit of its relevance,” Rosen says of the building, describing it as an American icon. “But it has not lost its beauty or importance.”

Hey, it was a decent renovation at the time considering what they knew back then. All of those old hotel buildings should have their blueprints rebuilt in more development-averse segments of the city, but for now, let’s focus in on redeveloping the original sites to brand-new, 21st century towers that actually command respect.

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Amazing renderings, rgarri4.

What we essentially are going to have here is the two tallest towers in Hong Kong.

Except they’re right beside each other above the most famous transportation hub in the world.

Amazing. Unthinkable just a decade or so ago.

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Amazing how this view will change dramatically once 175 Park rises in a few years! :open_mouth: :heart_eyes:

Taken by me on April 22nd

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Almost nothing between Park and 1st ave in this view is from the 21st century. It is in desperate need of some new development. These dated, <40 floor office towers are seriously undesirable compared with other neighborhoods/time periods and hopefully some of the smaller ones can see residential conversion/complete demolition

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#2 on the proposed buildings list (even though it was knocked down from its 1,600 ft + height). This tower basically has everything going for it. Right on top of grand central and the new ESA (and it will have an entirely new mezzanine for that) huge new public area, beautiful overall design, large height and decent width (while not looking fat), mixed use with luxury hotel component.

Plus amazing views of Grand Central, 1 Vanderbilt, The Chrysler Building, 270 Park, 57th Street, etc.

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what is #1?

418 11th Ave.

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When this lease ends 175 Park will be accepting tenants (long before that as well) so they’re a possible tenant.

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would that be taller?


Sky High Tower

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Slightly off-topic but here is my version of 175 Park Avenue in Minecraft.




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Sky High Tower concept on 175 Park Ave.

If only Midtown were that dense with supertalls!

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