Construction is continuing to ascend on 270 Park Avenue, JPMorgan Chase‘s new 60-story supertall headquarters in Midtown East. Designed by Norman Foster of Foster + Partners and developed by Tishman Speyer, the 1,388-foot-tall skyscraper will yield 2.5 million square feet of office space and will set the record for the tallest New York City building to be fully powered by a hydroelectric power plant. 270 Park Avenue is rising on a full-block parcel bound by Park Avenue to the east, Madison Avenue to the west, East 47th Street to the south, and East 48th Street to the north.
A few more floors have been added since our last construction update in early March, and a safety cocoon has been installed around the edges of the floor plates. The cranes are due for another jump in order to keep up with the fast pace of construction, and fireproofing the steel could likely commence in the coming weeks. 270 Park Avenue’s concrete cores have yet to begin formation within the footprint of the supertall.
270 Park Avenue. Photo by Michael Young
270 Park Avenue. Photo by Michael Young
270 Park Avenue. Photo by Michael Young
270 Park Avenue. Photo by Michael Young
270 Park Avenue. Photo by Michael Young
270 Park Avenue. Photo by Michael Young
270 Park Avenue. Photo by Michael Young
270 Park Avenue. Photo by Michael Young
270 Park Avenue. Photo by Michael Young
270 Park Avenue. Photo by Michael Young
270 Park Avenue. Photo by Michael Young
270 Park Avenue. Photo by Michael Young
270 Park Avenue. Photo by Michael Young
270 Park Avenue. Photo by Michael Young
270 Park Avenue. Photo by Michael Young
Steel erection should proceed at a swift pace through the rest of the spring, possibly reaching the first of four setbacks sometime this summer. Construction should gradually speed up after passing each successive tier on the eastern and western sides, given the reduced size of the floor plates.
270 Park Avenue. Photo by Michael Young
270 Park Avenue. Photo by Michael Young
270 Park Avenue. Photo by Michael Young
270 Park Avenue. Photo by Michael Young
270 Park Avenue. Photo by Michael Young
A pair of construction elevators has begun to be assembled along the wide northern elevation facing East 48th Street.
270 Park Avenue. Photo by Michael Young
The first official renderings of 270 Park Avenue from DBOX and Foster + Partners from last month’s update provide a detailed preview of the look of the exterior and its context within the skyline. The most noteworthy aspect of the design is the bronze diagrid pattern of beams that will cross over the floor-to-ceiling windows on the elevations facing Park and Madison Avenues.
270 Park Avenue. Rendering © DBOX for Foster + Partners
270 Park Avenue. Rendering © DBOX for Foster + Partners
Completion of 270 Park Avenue is expected around 2025.
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So the profile has gone from a middle finger to the world, to overly simplistic symmetrical setbacks.
It’s bad enough that JP Morgan keeps funding new dirty fossil fuel projects that will destroy us all. Apparently this new headquarters is the symbol, or perhaps tombstone, to that end.
Every time this awesome landmark’s progress is reported,you bad-mouth it.
What’s your beef?
I know right!!!
One would expect to see a sense of relief for a building that initially looked like a “middle finger” to an admiringly simplified design, but not even this can apparently satisfy his judgement.
I’m a retired local 28 SheetMetal Worker, from what I see its a beautiful building,wishing that I could of been part of this beautiful project.
Gigantic structure above street level, and very large in size on steel. Sizable construction now on these photos show its update, huge and high which ready to energetic the city heartily designed: Thanks to Michael Young.
Is anyone else a bit concerned about the “structural integrity” of that MASSIVE tower being supported on those steel beam
“chopsticks”?!!
Looks very disturbing to me! 😨
If you are familiar with the foundations, the bigger concern is the east side access caverns below.
Engineering is a serious profession. They’re not going to start building something that could collapse at the ground floor or crush a tunnel 100 feet below ground.
That base is never going to hold a 1400 foot building.
Let’s just hope the calculations are right and the contractor doesn’t screw up.
I don’t think that is going to happen. This is not the 1700s.
The sheer bulk and presence of this building never fails to amaze me.
Like a giant ballerina, en pointe…. You gotta believe in the mathematics!
Never forget the shame and waste of knocking down of what was a LEED Gold skyscraper, 270 Park Avenue.
The new one is more impressive than the old.
Can’t wait to walk through that lobby and see David in Bushwick outside, crying , picketing about something
I expect this new tower to outlast him.