As crawford pointed out, this will be the first large upcoming tower in the Lincoln Square neighborhood. But it will also likely be the shortest.
The ABC campus is right across the street and we will see some extremely tall skyscrapers there.
Don’t forget 200 Amsterdam, so this will really be the 2nd large tower. The ABC properties will be this neighborhood’s Hudson Yards.
Not if the very well organized Upper Westside NIMBYS have anything to say about it!!
Ha! They sure will put up a fight!
The NIMBY’s will be mad about this but I’d just look at them like…
I’m so sorry, I know everyone hates thread jumpers, but could someone who lives nearby get picture updates on this one? The last update was on June 10th when this had just started to go above ground. I have to imagine it must be getting pretty high by now! Many thanks in advance.
Nice update @Nickfloyo! There’s your update @jackster99 
It’s really interesting that they are building out the dense array of columns on the left corner of the podium and not just keeping them normally spaced out and filling the false ones with metal stud assemblies like other projects normally do.
Nice!!
Thanks so much for the update!
The sight of a modernist work of Architecture among all those traditional buildings along Central Park West is a refreshing sight to behold. The aesthetics of this particular design is artful & elegant: Architecture with a Capital “A”.
I am glad to see we did not get another historical recreation such as 200 CPW - modernism is almost always the best way to go IMHO.
I read this random statement on ‘Quora’ site - it expresses my attitude exactly regarding the choice of Architecture here a 50 West 66th Street.
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Modern architecture also had an aspect of self-reflection and self-criticality, so that it was meant to always question its premises and improve. Traditional architecture, at its worst, is just that - blindly following tradition, doing thing a particular way because, that’s just the way it has always been done. As a result traditional architecture feels familiar and comforting, but that doesn’t make it necessarily appropriate or the best solution. Modern architecture in turn will often seem jarring because it is trying to change things and critique itself. It is meant to be ever changing and evolving.
This last bit has had its downsides as ‘new for newness’ sake’ - being avant-garde - is sometimes pursued for its own sake leading to mindless form-making and forgetting the original premise of order-versus-freedom.
All of that said, traditional architecture isn’t bad. It was fine for its time. But replicating it doesn’t make sense. Learning from it, yes. The best modern architects copied scale, proportions, organisational principles, movement patterns, lighting strategies, and more, from the best of classical and other traditional architectures.
There are other technical, material, structural and design aspects that modern architecture does well (sometimes) but I think these other more fundamental aspects are too often ignored if not misunderstood.
END QUOTE.
Climbing quick
It’s hard to tell but I think it’s nearing the end of the podium, I’m interested in seeing how the podium to tower transition occurs with the odd geometry in construction or if it will be normal and the angular geometry is secondary structure.