Please stop asking that question, I don’t know how many times you’ve asked it time and time again and my answer has never changed any if those times.
I’d like to see the Jersey City skyline planted on Battery Park City. Replacing all those 100 foot orange brick buildings with 800 foot silver and black metal buildings would look awesome for downtown’s skyline. Seems like an easy way to add density, you could fit about a dozen new skyscrapers there.
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@TKDV where is it possible to build a megatall in NY??
I don’t know why you @ him specifically but there are a few places where it’s possible in New York City.
Possible does not mean that’s what is going to happen there.
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possible?
but where PABT?
This is only for my ideas:
Would it be possible to demolish the old Solow Building in order to plan it with the adjacent property a possible high end supertall on 57th street?
Was the Solow Building originally designed and constructed with air rights?
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Entirely possible. Though I don’t really want the Solow building demolished. I kinda like it
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It’s the Grace Building’s ugly step sibling.
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IMO the Grace Building is the Solow Building’s ugly step sibling. I like the oil slick-like black glass and dark cross bracing on the Solow Building more than the Grace Building’s rather boring grid of travertine. But, different strokes for different folks!
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Apparently, both buildings were designed by the same architects with the Grace Building using the rejected original facade design for the Solow Building according to its Wikipedia article.
One of the aesthetic attributes of the building is the concave vertical slope of its north and south facades, on 42nd and 43rd Street. The Grace Building uses the original, rejected design for the facade of the Solow Building, another Bunshaft creation.
I also agree the Solow Building looks nicer than the Grace Building, which looks like a generic mid-century tower.
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I like that better than Grace Building
The Chase Tower in Chicago
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350 Park Ave. on Penn Plaza West site, could you put orginal size from old 350 Park on PABT site 1 (8th Ave.)? It might even almost match the size of the mass diagram. I’m posting it here just to show the official 350 Park Ave. Topic not to disturb too much.
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350 Park Ave is only 1.7 million sqft, Site 1 at the PABT is zoned for 3 million, so the massing sizes wouldn’t match at all. 
Well TKDV could you name a skyscraper which is 3 million tall? Or you could create your own rendering/concept for Site 1.
There are only 3 skyscrapers in the city with over 3 million sqft of area, them being 55 Water St (3.6), One WTC (3.5), and the Metlife Building (3.1).
If one recalls, I do not have access to modeling or rendering software anymore as I could not renew my past licenses.
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If so, Site 1 could be one of the largest non-highest skyscrapers in New York. How tall is 175 Park Ave. compared to Site 1?
These are the official unrealized projects for the rehabilitation of the PABT towers:
An artist’s rendering of the tower that was to go atop the Port Authority Bus Terminal.Credit…Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners, via Bloomberg News
How tall could this placeholder be on site 1? I could estimate around 1700 feet.
If you want you can ask a question in the official PABT towers topic since this is not an official topic.
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I recall him saying that there are no height limits in that area. So technically you can go as high as 1700ft depending on the zoning regulations
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