If you’ve ever seen the famous Portlandia episode with “put a bird on it” the architectural rendering version is “put a tree on it”
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This one’s coming along nicely! Can’t wait to see it finished.
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Steel at top of core, cooling towers and spires next
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Looking fantastic, looks like you can see the tracks for a BMU
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Looks like they’re starting one of the 3 spires
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Norman Foster’s 425 Park Avenue Heads For 897-Foot Pinnacle Above Midtown East
Construction on 425 Park Avenue in Midtown is charging ahead toward completion, with the upper floors now taking shape. The 41-story, 897-foot-tall building is designed by Norman Foster, head of Foster + Partners, and is being developed by L&L Holding Company LLC. Adamson Associates is the architect of record. The final major elements yet to be assembled are the three glass fins that will stand atop the flat roof parapet. This architectural detail will define the tower among the surrounding buildings, especially when illuminated at night.
This transitional stage is further enhanced with the sleek lines of the metal panels that cover the large diagonal steel columns. These critical members transfer the loads from the reinforced concrete core to the floor slabs, and finally downward toward the foundations. The outer steel perimeter columns create a rigidly sound structure and also give 425 Park Avenue a distinctive structural expressionist aesthetic.
The glass curtain wall is rapidly rising on the third tier of the tower, while opaque, gray-colored metal panels on the eastern elevation also make their way up to the roof. The yellow construction crane remains standing in the middle of the main western elevation, and part of the floor slabs on the lower levels are still cut out. These should be filled in once the crane is eventually disassembled upon completion of the upper stories and the trio of signature fins.
425 Park Avenue should be finished by the end of 2020.
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