NYC Architecture and Development

Yea any all glass building trying to meet passive house standards probably has to work twice as hard. Hopefully with so many factors converging at the same time all glass towers will fall out of fashion. In europe and nyc residential towers are already not using all glass facades very much anymore.
 
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Bank Of America Tower
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Central Park Tower
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Hearst Tower
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One Vanderbilt
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One World Trade Center
This might sound a bit ridiculous, but I was kinda nervous being inside 1 WTC. I know the chances of another 9/11-style attack are low, but I was still pretty freaked out about something like that happening.
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Perelman Performing Arts Center
I love the way this building looks. I just wish it was named after a 9/11 hero (Orio Palmer? Peter Ganci?) or named 6 WTC instead of being named after a billionaire.
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3 World Trade Center & 4 World Trade Center
I'm not a big fan of 3 WTC or 4 WTC. The designs are too uninteresting for a site like this. I wouldn't mind them if they were located elsewhere, though.
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Love that this is happening but I reject the premise that there's a "lack of neighborhood" in midtown East. Tudor city, one of Manhattan's gems, is a 3 minute walk from this building. Nice little services with views of UN building and the East River. The proximity to Grand Central also comes with lots of shops and arguably the best subway and commuter rail routes from a single station, especially with Eastside Access now running. I'd love to live here!

Edited for shame: UN wasn't Saarinen, but Niemeyer and Le Corbusier were involved. Still a beauty on the riverfront.
 
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Love that this is happening but I reject the premise that there's a "lack of neighborhood" in midtown East. Tudor city, one of Manhattan's gems, is a 3 minute walk from this building. Nice little services with views of Saarinen's UN building and the East River. The proximity to Grand Central also comes with lots of shops and arguably the best subway and commuter rail routes from a single station, especially with Eastside Access now running. I'd love to live here!
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Yeah, the headline of that article is ridiculous (much more so than the actual content). That wouldn't be anywhere close to my first choice in NYC, but plenty of people already do live all around there. The neighborhood is lively, well connected to transit, has whatever shopping/services you need, and already features a strong mix of housing, including whole blocks lined with classic NYC brownstones. It provides a better urban environment than 99% of the neighborhoods in America.
 
newyorkyimby.com

New Design Revealed for 2 World Trade Center in Financial District, Manhattan - New York YIMBY

A new redesign has been revealed for Foster + Partners and Silverstein Properties' 2 World Trade Center supertall in Manhattan's Financial District.
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Designed by Norman Foster of Foster + Partners and developed by Silverstein Properties, the skyscraper is now slated to stand 62 stories and 1,230 feet tall, down from the 80-story, 1,348-foot-tall scope of the previous iteration. The building will yield 2.8 million square feet of office space and rise from a full-block property bounded by Vesey Street to the north, Fulton Street to the south, Church Street to the east, and Greenwich Street to the west.
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Also:
therealdeal.com

Silverstein drops $3.7B Fed funding bid for 2 World Trade Center

Larry Silverstein withdrew his application with the US DOT for a $3.7 billion loan for 2 World Trade Center
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Condo owners sue over New York skyscraper they say is riddled with ‘thousands of severe cracks’​

The new lawsuit meanwhile claims that the tower’s facade is “plagued with thousands of severe cracks, spalling, and other forms of deterioration,” including a 10-inch-deep crack in the building’s core. As well as causing flooding, the damage has corroded some of the steel in the tower’s reinforced concrete columns, the complaint alleges.

While the 2021 complaint also detailed “substantial cracking,” the condo board said it filed its most recent action after claiming it uncovered evidence that defendants had “conspired” to conceal the extent and seriousness of the defects.
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