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This is what Hudson Yards West will look like, according to developers

2024-03-15T13:25:00-04:00

Details of the planned Wynn New York City resort scheme from Related Companies and the Oxford Properties Group have been released, along with new renderings and further details about the final Phase 2 building segment at Hudson Yards.

The three-tower scheme chosen from the set of alternative proposals that was released in February calls for a 1,189-foot hotel with 1,750 rooms to be placed at the northernmost edge of the site opposite a 1,366-foot office building and across a plaza area from the x-shape third residential tower, which stands at 1,172-feet will include 1,507 units. A 5.6-acre park will complete the master plan, along with a 750-seat public school and 12,250 square feet of ground-level retail.

Rendering courtesy of Related Companies and Wynn Resorts

Included in this proposal are plans for a gaming component that could potentially earn one of three coveted casino licenses up-for-grabs in the Downstate region (which includes New York City) for $500 million apiece in 2025...

Google NYC's new adaptive-reuse HQ design by Gensler and COOKFOX opens at Hudson Square

2024-02-27T12:52:00-05:00

Google’s brand new New York City headquarters inside St. John’s Terminal at Hudson Square has opened following the completion of a five-year and $2.1 billion project designed by COOKFOX Architects and Gensler.

The renovation of the two-block-long former rail terminus yields a total of 1.3 million square feet of new offices. Another nine stories were added above the existing structure. The building will house some 3,000 employees of the tech giant, who said in a blog post that its design is responsive to a research-driven office strategy and supports a new workplace model that’s meant to foster greater collaboration, creativity, and growth.

Image: courtesy of Google

After restoring the original three floors remaining from its peak usage in the 1930s, the design team created a welcoming space defined by an exterior cut facade detailed on its northern side with reused rail beds that had been leftovers and are kept semi-exposed to create a visible linkage between past and present.

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Perkins&Will and DSDHA tapped for $430 million science complex in central London

2022-05-11T17:50:00-04:00

DSDHA and Perkins&Will have been chosen by a team of developers to design a new life sciences complex in central London.

The investment entity behind the proposed Snowsfields Quarter project, Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation, selected global real estate investor and developer Oxford Properties and Reef Group as its development partners. The design team will also include Reef’s in-house design studio UrbanR. Oxford and Reef will invest approximately £350 million ($430 million) towards the 300,000-square-foot project that will feature commercially-available lab facilities across three new buildings.

Snowsfields Quarter will play a key role in forming the required real estate infrastructure to support the area’s emerging SC1 Life Science and Innovation District, a new health innovation cluster. The sale of a long-term leasehold of the site to Oxford Properties will complete once planning permission for the project has been secured.

Pelli Clarke Pelli development will reshape Toronto skyline

2019-07-01T14:46:00-04:00

Pelli Clarke Pelli, Adamson Associates, OJB Landscape Architecture, and developers Oxford Properties Group have unveiled plans for Union Park, a 4.3 million-square-foot marquee development that could reshape the Toronto skyline.

View of the proposed rail yard cap park. Image courtesy of Oxford Properties Group.

The multi-towered development will bring 3.3 million square feet of offices, 800 residential units, and 200,000 square feet of "high quality retail" to a central site in downtown Toronto. The development is arranged into three towers, with the project's two office skyscrapers designed as near-mirror images of one another. A third tower will include housing, including units designed specifically for families, as well as a new 8,500-square-foot daycare facility, among other amenities. The exact height of each of the towers has not been released, but renderings for the project indicate that Toronto's CN Tower will continue to live on as the city's tallest structure.

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Take a look at new renderings of 35 Hudson Yards ahead of sales launch (apartments starting at $5 million)

2019-03-06T13:46:00-05:00

New details and renderings have been released for 35 Hudson Yards, set to be the tallest residential tower in the Hudson Yards neighborhood at over 1,000 feet. The boutique apartments come with a wide array of in-house lifestyle services, some provided by the Equinox Hotel, which is part of the development. David Childs and Skidmore Owings & Merrill are the architects, while interior design is being led by Tony Ingrao.

To make 35 Hudson Yards your new home address, be prepared to open the checkbook extra wide — two-bedroom condos start at $5 million, while the average unit of the overall 134 apartments will set you back $11 million ($4,100 per square foot). The three penthouses have yet to be priced, reports the New York Times.

Image: Related-Oxford

"35 Hudson Yards offers a collection of 143 two- to six-bedroom condominium residences starting on the 53rd floor with sweeping, panoramic views of the Hudson River, Manhattan skyline, the Hudson Yards Public Square and Gardens, and its centerpiece temporarily named Vessel," reveals the announcement from developers Related Companies.

Image: Related-Oxford

"Our tower, 35 Hudson Yards, with its combination of retail, office, hotel and residential uses, is a city within Hudson Yards, exactly in the way Hudson Yards itself is a full mixed-use city within Manhattan," said architect David Childs.

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30 Hudson Yards, the development's tallest tower, tops out at 1,296 feet

2018-07-06T14:27:00-04:00

Speculations for the topping out of the 73-story 30 Hudson Yards have been swirling for the last couple months, and now the fateful day has finally arrived. [....] YIMBY received confirmation that the tallest building of the Hudson Yards mega-development has finally reached its pinnacle, with an American flag rising above the building’s parapet.

Visualization of the Hudson Yards development with the KPF-designed supertall 30 Hudson Yards tower in the foreground. Image: KPF.

Now only 50 Hudson Yards remains to be finished from the phase one batch of Hudson Yards towers. "Phase two will see the construction of several new retail, residential, and office buildings to the west of the current development, none of which will rise higher than the current batch," writes NY YIMBY.

Construction photo from April 2018 when 30 Hudson Yard's observation deck platform was lifted into place. Image: Related Companies.

Supertall 35 Hudson Yards tops out at 1,009 feet

2018-06-19T16:12:00-04:00

Progress on the second highest tower in the Hudson Yards mega-development has reached a milestone. 35 Hudson Yards has officially topped out at 1,009 feet. Now that it has reached that height, it is the ninth tallest structure in New York City and 19th tallest in the United States. Related Companies and Oxford Properties Group are responsible for the development. Next door, 30 Hudson Yards is tantalizingly close to topping out, but the milestone has not yet officially occurred.

Rendering of what the completed 35 Hudson Yards will look like. Image courtesy of Related-Oxford.