There's another project coming to Manhattan that's even thinner: 303–305 E. 44th Street, designed by Eran Chen of ODA Architecture.
At 47 feet wide, this one's the narrowest of the bunch. Developed by Triangle Assets, the tower will rise about 600 feet high, creating 115,000 square feet of residential space. [...]
The design for 305 E. 44th is predicated on a stack of volumes; nested between them are the project's signature amenities, private gardens.
— citylab.com
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Amenities for rich people?
Will this start a new trend?
Will this catch on?
What is next? Gated communities?
Only time will tell if other architects jump on the bandwagon or if this is just short lived faditecture.
Seems nice and not too ostentatious.
It is a nice response to market pressures, those gardens that break up the mass could have been another multi-million dollar unit without them it would be a less attractive building.
Over and OUT
Peter N
Wonder about high wind on high floor gardens. Anyone live on a high floor with a balcony? Wonder too about cool drippy/draped green FLW vegetation, see it all the time on renderings, but rarely see it followed through in northern climate jobs, wonder if the container beds should be heated.
It works in Milan, where it freezes and snows in winter too: https://www.stefanoboeriarchitetti.net/en/project/vertical-forest/
Vegetation will not exactly thrive under an overhang. Plants need light and water. And judging from the promo image the gardens face north. Maybe they are planted with faux vinyl greenery?
Not to mention the masters-of-the-universe pissed off at the vegetationdangling down from above that is blocking their windows.
I'm predicting epic fail. And lots of bird shit. And that it will sell out at exorbitant prices because rich people are dumb as rocks.
i want the mark foster gage tower.
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