Earlier this month, Extell Development Company announced the launch of sales for its Central Park Tower – which it is calling “the definitive New York skyscraper”, as well as the tallest residential building in the world.
The project is located on Billionaire’s Row in NYC and it will be 1,550 feet tall when completed. That puts it well into supertall territory.
According to Curbed, the smallest apartments start at 1,435 sf and the largest will be an estate in the sky at around 17,500 sf.
The projected sellout for the project is, or at least was, $4 billion back in 2017. That will set all sorts of records upon completion. At the time of the above filing, the average price was pegged at $7,106 per square foot.
Earlier this month, Extell Development Company announced the launch of sales for its Central Park Tower – which it is calling “the definitive New York skyscraper”, as well as the tallest residential building in the world.
The project is located on Billionaire’s Row in NYC and it will be 1,550 feet tall when completed. That puts it well into supertall territory.
According to Curbed, the smallest apartments start at 1,435 sf and the largest will be an estate in the sky at around 17,500 sf.
The projected sellout for the project is, or at least was, $4 billion back in 2017. That will set all sorts of records upon completion. At the time of the above filing, the average price was pegged at $7,106 per square foot.
If you’d like to read up on the project’s capital stack, you can do that here. And for those of us who are used to having to pre-sell condos before digging, you may find it interesting to know that this project started construction in 2014.
I wonder how much a parking spot costs (assuming there is even parking).
BIG just announced its first project in South America. It is a 33 storey residential building in Quito, Ecuador. When completed, it will be the tallest building in the city. The developer is Uribe and Schwarzkopf.
Each year, first-year graduate students at the Yale School of Architecture are tasked with designing and then physically building a new single-family house in an economically depressed neighborhood. Sometimes,
If you’d like to read up on the project’s capital stack, you can do that here. And for those of us who are used to having to pre-sell condos before digging, you may find it interesting to know that this project started construction in 2014.
I wonder how much a parking spot costs (assuming there is even parking).
BIG just announced its first project in South America. It is a 33 storey residential building in Quito, Ecuador. When completed, it will be the tallest building in the city. The developer is Uribe and Schwarzkopf.
Each year, first-year graduate students at the Yale School of Architecture are tasked with designing and then physically building a new single-family house in an economically depressed neighborhood. Sometimes,
The building is made up of “concrete boxes” that, when rotated, create terraces for the apartments. On one corner of the building the apartments are “through-units”, meaning they have two exposures. In this case, it is north and south.
While different, we are starting to see some similarities across BIG’s projects, which isn’t meant as a criticism. I am thinking of Telus Sky, Vancouver House, and even KING Toronto.
They are, at least partially, about expressing the individual apartments and creating opportunities for outdoor spaces. This also serves to break down the overall scale of the building.
I have always thought that this is a great exercise both from a pedagogical standpoint and from a positive impact standpoint. Young architecture students get to experience designing and building something from scratch, and lower-income families get a new house. I toured one of the completed houses in New Haven back in, I think, 2005.
This building project, which was started in 1967, is fairly unique among architecture schools, though others have replicated the model. When I was living in the US, I spent a few weekends working on homes for Rebuilding Together Philadelphia. But the scope was fairly limited. It was nothing like this.
I think more schools should do this. And I also wonder if there aren’t permutations of this model that could live outside of the university context.
The building is made up of “concrete boxes” that, when rotated, create terraces for the apartments. On one corner of the building the apartments are “through-units”, meaning they have two exposures. In this case, it is north and south.
While different, we are starting to see some similarities across BIG’s projects, which isn’t meant as a criticism. I am thinking of Telus Sky, Vancouver House, and even KING Toronto.
They are, at least partially, about expressing the individual apartments and creating opportunities for outdoor spaces. This also serves to break down the overall scale of the building.
I have always thought that this is a great exercise both from a pedagogical standpoint and from a positive impact standpoint. Young architecture students get to experience designing and building something from scratch, and lower-income families get a new house. I toured one of the completed houses in New Haven back in, I think, 2005.
This building project, which was started in 1967, is fairly unique among architecture schools, though others have replicated the model. When I was living in the US, I spent a few weekends working on homes for Rebuilding Together Philadelphia. But the scope was fairly limited. It was nothing like this.
I think more schools should do this. And I also wonder if there aren’t permutations of this model that could live outside of the university context.
