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I hope it stays really futuristic like this — i love the coruscant vibes Manhattan is starting to get
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I really hope that this gets built. I know that Rudin’s tower will be largely empty when BlackRock exist for the HY. Does anyone know the status of 350 Park’s tenants?
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This might help
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Also i studied the renderings and it looks like 350 Park has a flat back, maybe it will have a similar case with 425 Park
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The ~1400 ft. blank facade is horrible. So horrible in fact that I find myself hoping this tower doesn’t rise unless it’s radically revised.
If only the developers could acquire the rest of the block, making it a full-block lot from Park to Madison. In that case, the mechanical core could remain mid-block where it is now, and they could mirror the current design with diagrid setbacks on both the East and West sides.
Oh well, dare to dream.
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That’s a Foster signature. He puts the elevator banks in the back.
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If I were Foster, I’d have the tower flipped. Those 4 split sections with the angled floorspace popping out would look amazing if they faced NJ
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Or just place the elevator banks in the middle, and have the setback shapes on both sides
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I was literally thinking that!!
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I assume they would have done a more symmetrical design but they’ve clearly prioritized large contiguous floorplates (tech firm configuration), which is why they couldn’t put the core in the middle. That’s what I was getting at with my comment about acquiring the full block; you could do a “double sided” design without compromising the size of the uninterrupted floors.
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Yo Foster, I got my phone on me all the time. Call me for a job opportunity. What’s also funny is when I started this drawing it looked incredibly similar to 270 Park, can you see it?
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Actually, the back of 122 Leadenhall might have glass over the elevator banks.
Have there been renderings of the west facade for 350 Park? Sadly, I doubt that this is what will rise anyway.
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This is the closest thing to a rendering of the “back” I remember seeing. It was posted upthread by @the726.
(edit: typo fixed)
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Considering how gorgeous the front is, I could live with that.
Sadly, I doubt that this particular design will even get built.
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Why not?
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I could see them developing something tall, but simpler. This seems like it would be pretty expensive to construct. A box with setbacks like 270 Park, which I find stunning, would be much more straightforward I suspect.
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