Lots of hoops to jump through along the approval journey for these tall buildings. Pretty crazy. Iâm hoping for the best.
That base looks rather Apple Store like.
Yeah, itâs far less dramatic than 270 Park â closer to a more boring Manhattan West.
Makes sense because F&P designed the aesthetic and palette for Appleâs HQ & stores
New rendering (of the older design) shown during the CPC public review presentation:
The presentation itself can be found on the ZAP site:
Just seeing this but love how the rendering shows the widened Park Avenue median.
Tragic that theyâre spending $4.5 billion and wouldnât aim for a unique design.
I sure loved the originalâs uniqueness in that regard.
1600 feet,
YES
Literal dick-measuring contest happening on Park Avenue and I love it
Where did the 1,650 feet figure come from?
These developers gotta stop being pus*y and build above 1WTC. Arab and Asian cities are building megatalls but the self proclamied capital of the world cant.
Asian and Middle Eastern cities build megatall skyscrapers mostly to showcase power and attract investors, often within a decade without genuine demand, whereas New York constructs tall buildings based on real demand, growing steadily and logically over its long history.
If any building should claim megatall status in NYC, it should be 175 Park Avenue. Its in the perfect location and easily has the most prominent architecture.
It easily could be with a spire design as well which is painful
I donât disagree, but youâre not going to tell me NYC doesnât have the demand for a 1,800 footer or (ideally) a 2k ft megatall. Look at the massive office building boom right now along with all the new residential.
And I canât speak for other cities but Dubai, just like NYC, is undergoing a building boom and has one of the highest growth rates of any city in the world, so the demand is definitely there. NYC needs a megatall, like that new Ken Griffin tower should be 1800 ft+