The Diagrams page has the updated design now
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Thanks for the very interesting rendering 
Then by roof height 350 Park Ave. would be the tallest skyscraper in New York, interesting. If Peebles is announced as the winner of the RFP for Site K (if the second proposal is the same height) then this would be the third tallest skyscraper. Or Peebles is looking for another property on Park Ave. and reaches his Affirmation Tower there (just a thought of mine).
That would be interesting to see the Affirmation Tower (over 1650 feet) and 350 Park Ave. in a rendering.
Or put a 200-foot antenna on top and that’s New York’s next tallest skyscraper.
With 45 East 45th Street, 175 Park Ave., 250 Park Ave. and Tower Fifth, other supertalls in this region are still in the pipeline.
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You may have an SSP diagram account to see the unblurred versions of proposed and under construction buildings but you should not be posting the unblurred versions outside of your own viewing purposes, that was intentionally done by SkyscraperPage for legal reasons and has been the policy for 2 years.
I don’t even know what that is. This is just the standard diagram page that anyone can pull up online
It’s not though, users who do not have accounts with SSP diagrams can not see unblurred versions of the buildings without an account. There is a sign-in for their diagrams side of the website and a sign-in for their forums side of the website, the 2 are not connected though. You previously were positing the blurred versions which you should continue to do. If you do not have control of that then I would not post the diagrams in general so that they remain available to the public if the issue is a legal one.
Per the SSP diagrams website manager
New Policy: blur applied to drawings of proposed and under construction buildings
The new policy for the skyscraper diagrams is to not show exact designs of proposed buildings. This new policy is required for legal reasons. An illustrator still has full access to his original drawing, but the public will only see a blurred version of it until construction of the actual building is finished.
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" This new policy is required for legal reasons." Does it actually say what the legal reasons are? Otherwise it’s just a vague rationale with no context.
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The Central Park Tower is the only one without an iconic, recognizable shape/look…
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I’m sure it all boils down to someone somewhere being afraid of getting sued by someone somewhere.
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„ This project will not be contributing in the immediate future, as it will by 2025 before it enters the planning process.“
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I’m not sure whether SSP commercialises their diagram database, but this similar situation with a replica maker is probably what’s going on with the blurring of diagrams on SSP. Existing buildings are in the public domain, but proposed designs are the IP of the architects because the design only exists in the form of plans and renderings that they created – so you can’t make money from them.
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I’ve griped in the comments about the lack of renderings of the back side. Not expecting an official reply but you never know! 
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Nice find! I’ve updated my rendering with more accurate mechanical level louvres, based on the bigger renderings:
Similar to 270 Park, the highest few tiers of this design are entirely mechanical floors with louvered vent facades.
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Nice!!
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@ThreeWentDown it appears the 2nd tier also has the louvers like youve shown on the 3rd tier.
@MarshallKnight it’s very frustrating! But from these renders we can see that the glass wraps around the rear for what looks to be about 30’-40’. Whatever the infill inbetween that is is now the question. But we still know the core is offset on the rear.
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I would love to see the elevator core wrapped in a Rogers Stirk Harbour-style cross-bracing. Something like 88 Wood Street in London:
Or their original vision for 3 WTC:
If you’re going to completely re-orient the way skyscrapers are constructed, you might as well make an iconic look out of it.
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Lets hope this tower gets an awesome ligting scheme like 270 Park. Those lights in the bracing on 270 really enhance the nighttime look.
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I didn’t notice that in the daylight rendering at first, but the louvres at that level are clearer in the night rendering – I’ve updated my rendering accordingly!
I can’t imagine the western side of this design taking on such angular features like cross bracing when the rest of the design we’ve seen is very Streamline, with the F+P press release calling it a ‘series of glass flutes’. It looks to me like whatever configuartion the core takes will be flush against the western facade, hopefully with glass elevators!
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that was an iconic design before the accountants and Larry “improved” on the design 
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