Back in March, Gothamist-founder Jake Dobkin had the enviable opportunity to take a tour of Manhattan’s Second Avenue subway construction, deep below the surface of the Upper East Side, and took some incredible photos of the mega-project’s progress (see the photos here). Dobkin’s photos give a rare look into the borrowing subterranean world that construction …Continue Reading
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Exciting New Photos Of NYC’s Second Avenue Subway
Back in March, Gothamist-founder Jake Dobkin had the enviable opportunity to take a tour of Manhattan’s Second Avenue subway construction, deep below the surface of the Upper East Side, and took some incredible photos of the mega-project’s progress (see the photos here). Dobkin’s photos give a rare look into the borrowing subterranean world that construction …Continue Reading
Frank Gehry To Design Facebook’s NYC Office
770 Broadway will hold two floors of Facebook’s new Frank Gehry-designed offices. Photo: via nymag.com Frank Gehry seems to be the architect of choice for Facebook. The social media giant has now entered into another partnership with the starchitect, to design its new office space in the heart of Manhattan. Previously, Facebook had been using …Continue Reading
Pop-Up Hotel Concept Hopes To Solve Manhattan Real Estate Woes
Images courtesy of Pinkcloud Midtown Manhattan combines millions of square feet of floor slab with tourist-choked hellholes like Times Square, which together create a recipe for economic success. This is why a 21% office vacancy rate in this same comes as a big surprise. It seems that, due to the Great Recession, Midtown’s glass-and-steel beauties …Continue Reading
One World Trade Center Tops Out
Image: Gary He / Insider Images via EPA One World Trade Center was topped out on Friday with the addition of the final piece of its spire. At the overtly symbolic height of 1,776 feet high, give or take a few feet, the tower is now the highest in the US and third tallest in …Continue Reading
One World Trade Center Will Soon Top Out at 1,776 Feet
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After weather conditions refused to cooperate on Monday, the final two sections of Freedom Tower have been lifted to the summit of the One World Trade Center. Construction of the gargantuan 758-ton, 408-foot spire – a joint Canadian-U.S. venture – began in December 2012, when 18 separate pieces were shipped to Manhattan from Canada and New Jersey. This final addition, including a steel beacon, means that the height of the building will soon rise from 1,368 feet to a more patriotic 1,776 feet once the segments are permanently installed within the next few weeks. However, it’s not yet certain that the building will officially be the tallest in the U.S.
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The tower, designed by SOM‘s David Childs, will not officially dethrone the 1,450 ft Willis (Sears) Tower as the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere until it receives the blessing of the Council on Tall Buildings. This non-profit council compiles the definitive list of the world’s tallest structures. A ‘height committee’ will measure what they consider the architectural top of the building; a term which includes permanent parts of the structure, such as spires, but omits more temporary structures like antennae.
Once the council has reviewed the final drawings, they will make a decision on the building’s fate. If they are not convinced by the spire, the building it will fall to third place behind the Willis and Trump Towers, both in Chicago. However, despite mixed opinions, it looks very likely that the council will give it the thumbs up.
Once it’s all finished, the tower is scheduled to open its doors and welcome its anchor tenant in 2014.
Check out our previous coverage of the tower’s progress, including a nifty virtual time-lapse of the building’s construction.
via The Huffington Post, Gizmodo
One World Trade Center Will Soon Top Out at 1,776 Feet originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 03 May 2013.
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This Aerial Photo Of New York At Night Is Brought To You By NASA
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You probably already guessed it, but New York City really does look like a giant night-light from space. This 400-millimeter satellite photo was taken by the crew aboard the International Space Station on March 23, 2013. Basically, nearly every nook and cranny of the greater New York region is lit up to the nth degree, excepting the city’s various parks and green spaces. (Central Park is that dark thin rectangle near the center of the photo.) That razzmatazz in the middle there is Times Square, home to the biggest and brightest stars on Earth. Maybe.
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Construction Begins on NYC’s First Prefab Steel and Concrete Residential Development
Prefabrication has long been heralded as a possible way to infill New York’s vacant sites, however it is only in recent years that it has become a solid practical solution rather than an experimental concept. Riding the crest of the wave of new prefabricated housing is GLUCK+ (formerly Peter Gluck & Partners), in collaboration with developers Jeffrey Brown and Kimberly Frank. Together they have began construction on one of New York’s first prefabricated steel and concrete residential buildings.
Read more about this and New York’s recent wave of prefabricated buildings after the break…
Dubbed ‘Broadway Stack’, the 38,000 square foot building will contain 28 high quality, moderate income apartments atop 4,000 square feet of ground floor commercial space in the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan. At the moment, 5,000 square feet worth of traditional foundations and services exists on-site, awaiting the imminent arrival of fifty-six prefabricated modules from a factory in Pennsylvania. The assembly of these modules into a seven-story building will take four weeks, with an additional three months after for connecting utilities, assembling the facade and adding the finishing touches. Members of the project team will be on-site to provide viewing of the assembly during the week of April 15.
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Prefabrication has become popular in recent years due to the efficiency and quality it affords. The result generally leads to lower construction costs, less waste, less energy consumption, less noise and pollution on site, and tighter quality control. It also provides a convenient way to build on some of New York’s smaller sites, which don’t have the space to host traditional construction. Plus the reduction in cost means that high quality housing can be made available to lower income New Yorkers.
New York is going through somewhat of a prefabrication renaissance, although this is first of many. Also in the pipeline is the winning prefabricated apartment building of Bloomberg’s adAPT NYC competition, which is intended to serve as a 21st century model of New York housing. Meanwhile, SHoP Architect’s B2 Bklyn residential residential towers, currently under construction in Brooklyn, plans to be one of the world’s tallest pre-fab buildings, standing at 32 stories upon completion.
via GLUCK+, World Architecture News
Construction Begins on NYC's First Prefab Steel and Concrete Residential Development originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 30 Mar 2013.
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