NEW YORK | 262 Fifth Ave | 860 FT | 60 FLOORS

More accolades for this new residential tower.

Here is another (of many) reasons I like the look of the facade treatment on this building. The builders are now putting up high quality metal panels - it think called rain screens - on the entire surface over the exposed concrete core.

I also read somewhere they may even be PV panels which seems to be some sort of high quality - and perhaps highly attractive - feature.

As a stark comparison to a similar condition; take a Iook at 450 11th Avenue (linked below) and see an example of how poorly this raw concrete wall could have been done. :grimacing:

The developers here at 262 Fifth Ave did not VE this exposed concrete wall by covering the entire surface with what looks like some sort of waterproof black paint; which is exactly what was done at 450 11th Avenue. (see link to 450 11th Ave.)

Photo; pgnewyork.com

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