Curtain wall installation is wrapping up on The Spiral, a 1,041-foot commercial supertall at 66 Hudson Boulevard in Hudson Yards and number nine on our construction countdown. Designed by Bjarke Ingels Group and developed by Tishman Speyer, the 66-story structure will yield 2.85 million square feet of office space and is expected to cost nearly $3.7 billion. Turner Construction Company is the general contractor, Banker Steel provided the steel work, and Permasteelisa is serving as the contractor for the reflective floor-to-ceiling glass enclosure for the property, which takes up a full city block between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues and 34th and 35th Streets.
Since our last update in November, work has continued on the glass exterior, which is gradually enclosing the signature stepped setbacks.
The Spiral. Photo by Michael Young
The Spiral. Photo by Michael Young
The Spiral. Photo by Michael Young
The Spiral. Photo by Michael Young
The Spiral. Photo by Michael Young
The Spiral. Photo by Michael Young
The Spiral. Photo by Michael Young
The Spiral. Photo by Michael Young
The Spiral (left). Photo by Michael Young
Besides the setback cladding, the primary areas awaiting completion are the ground floor and the gap on the northern and southern elevations where the construction elevators are attached.
The Spiral. Photo by Michael Young
Looking at The Spiral from across the Hudson River and along Eleventh Avenue by the Jacob K. Javits Center shows the immense size of the steel-framed superstructure.
The Spiral. Photo by Michael Young
The Spiral. Photo by Michael Young
The Spiral. Photo by Michael Young
The Spiral. Photo by Michael Young
The cascading stepped terraces, one per floor, are steadily being populated with vines, trees, and shrubbery with most of the greenery around the lower floors above the podium. More plants should arrive and wrap around the numerous outdoor terraces when the weather warms up next spring.
The Spiral. Photo by Michael Young
The Spiral. Photo by Michael Young
The Spiral. Photo by Michael Young
In recent news, CBRE helped Turner Construction Company successfully close a 13-year, 75,000-square-foot lease at The Spiral. The general contractor will move its global headquarters from its current office location at 375 Hudson Street to Hudson Yards next month. This now brings the total occupancy of the building to 54 percent, which also includes leases from Pfizer at 746,00 square feet, Alliance Bernstein at 166,000 square feet, and Debevoise & Plimpton LLP at 531,000 square feet. The six-story full-block podium will feature a lobby with soaring ceiling heights up to 28 feet and entrances along Hudson Boulevard East and Tenth Avenue. There will also be 18,000 square feet of retail space.
The Spiral. Photo by Michael Young
The Spiral is expected to be completed in the second half of 2022.
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Stepped setbacks so stunning on the exterior, show its beautiful point that breaking to glass. As I said on these progresses, new city in the big city: Thanks to Michael Young.
Maximum rentable floor space was the requirement and in a NYC cluster of towers, it works okay. But imagine if this is the new tallest tower in Denver or San Antonio. Ugh…
I don’t believe it has turned out as good as the renderings (or even what I personally
would’ve hoped for), but I still don’t think The Spiral is too bad. I quite like its bold presence. And the actual spiral, though not as stunning it could’ve been, is still a really defining feature. However, the rest of the building is really just a boxy behemoth of glass, which is kind of a let-down. Nevertheless, I’m keen to see this building when done.
Thomas, as seemingly occurs very often, you try to take every point of view, does this building have a “bold presence” or is it a “let down”?.
I’m sure you are a very kind, considerate person, but it’s OK to have a singular point of view, even if it’s one that’s not laudatory..
Not much of a spiral. Spiral effect very minimal.
Half a city block
An overly cautious “signature building”.. Slightly more adventurous wouldn’t have been the end of the world..
Another tower that is shorter than #11 on the countdown, but who’s really paying attention.
Not overly impressed with this latest addition to…
“Dubai on the Hudson”!
I’m quite OK with the styling – it’s neither too staid or outlandish, trendy. I only wish it was 200-300 (or more) feet taller.
Think I’ll become an architect. Just bought some new shoes and I was inspired by the box.
It’s too bad that BIG has lost it’s sense of drama in form with this mostly monotonous addition to what has unfortunately become a LARGELY over zealous forest of boxy, glass, steel and concrete monolithic towers in the gargantuan Hudson Yards neighborhood.
The original development which held so much promise for the west side rail yards, has mutated a never ending wall of tightly clustered, impenetrable tower blocks, devoid of exuberance, but full of excessive stupor.
The ultimate rendition of fascism in NYC. The corporate state dominates as one after another of the structures are duplicated for one tenth of one tenth of 1% of the population as the developers beg and get tax breaks.
Scarier then a Sci fi movie.
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Quite nice and a good addition to the neighborhood
what a dismal failure of urban design. it’s tragic. One will not know where one is within this crazy mess of huge buildings. no one was responsible for this stupidity other than the developers.