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Beautiful!
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Excellent news! This is the beautiful crown that deserves to be the tallest roof in NYC. With recent reports that tenants are looking for new, light and air filled offices instead of older, stuffier ones as a result of the pandemic, I think this gorgeous tower will be able to net a large tenant. Hopefully, when this tower starts rising, it will symbolize a bright new era for the city both economically and architecturally.
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If this gets built as is, I wouldn’t feel so bad about Tower Fifth getting built because this will likely overshadow everything else in midtown.
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Oh my gosh! NYC will actually have 1600+ rooftop? Please let this happen!
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I still see no conceivable way that Tower Fifth will rise. Macklowe is very old, and I can’t see it getting financed.
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Where did you get that? Can you please share the link?
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Sorry, completely forgot about the source. Here it is.
https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/applicants/env-review/proj-commodore/06-deis.pdf
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Thank you 
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Sainton on SSC posted this:
“This is a fantastic building, but the top just looks incomplete. With a spire, I think it would be a good “replacement” of Crystler and could even outshine ESB as the new king of NYC. What do you guys think of my illustration?”
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Well now it just looks like something from Atlanta or Nashville.
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Agreed, that render with the spire and lattice crown looks just like Atlanta’s tallest building.
I think it looks great the way it is for the most part, perhaps I would curve the top of the crown so it’s arched instead of flat, but I don’t think it needs a spire.
What I’m really curious about is the night illumination. It better be spectacular.
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Yeah, it doesn’t need a spire, it will be high enough and will have more of a presence even without one. Something like the International Finance Center in Hong Kong would work much more wonderously!
They really should add a polling feature to gather basic preferences. That would be amazing to see!
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I appreciate how with this building the architects clearly put some thought into the crown, unlike so many others who seem content to throw a few stacked boxes up there or simply angle the roof and cool it a day. I hope it lights a fire under Foster and inspires him to do something equally refined with 270 Park Ave.
That said, I wouldn’t mind seeing the crown evolve further. But if if does, I hope it does so in an original direction. If this is to be a new New York icon, I’d prefer it not to recall another building, be it one here in the city or somewhere else in the world.
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I really like Tower FIfth´s Observation deck, but the rest of the building? Blah. It looks so ugly and boring. And also kinda like a 432 park Ave copy and paste for a lot of it. (Which I didn´t really enjoy the design of either.)
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