“We are grateful to each of the firms for the thoughtfulness and creativity they demonstrated throughout the process. There is no doubt that each group was fully capable of helping us realize our vision of a 425 Park Avenue tower that redefines the modern office environment while also respecting and enhancing the timeless allure of the Plaza district.” — New York Observer
In one of the most unusual assignments around, Foster, Rogers, Koolhaas and Hadid were asked to tackle a New York City office building on Park Avenue. A famous address with two famous towers, but really, the rest of them stink. The catch for 425 Park, one of those middcentury stinkers, is that the zoning for the existing 1957 building was modified a few years later so any new building on the site would be smaller than what is there now. The developer figured out that if he tore down most but not all of his tower and built back up from there, he could keep his zoning envelope. Check out Lord Foster's fascinating design for this challenging project.
See also Foster + Partner's related press release.
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Foster it is
so over at NYT cityrooms blog David Dunlap writes "The preliminary conceptual design by Mr. Foster has few of the structural pyrotechnics evident in his other New York projects"
but to me that image (from link) very clearly invokes those previous New York Project structural moves...
just me?
@Nam: Truss, baby, truss. This is New York, and Park Avenue no less. Those qualify as pyrotechnics. Besides the Dursts, specifically One Bryant Park, officer towers around here are strictly vanilla.
@HotSoup exactly what i was getting at seems like the review/blog post doesn't match the reality or at least render....
has anyone found the other finalist submissions? interested to see what renzo proposed...
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