Construction is finally coming to a close on Madison House, a 62-story residential skyscraper at 126 Madison Avenue in the Midtown, Manhattan district of NoMad. Designed by Handel Architects and developed by Fosun Group and JD Carlisle, the 805-foot-tall structure yields 199 condominiums with sales led by Douglas Elliman Development Marketing. The property is alternately addressed as 15 East 30th Street and rises from a plot bound by East 31st Street to the north, East 30th Street to the south, and Madison Avenue to the east.
Occupancy has begun since our last update in December, with the final component, the 7,500-square-foot multi-story retail annex at the corner of Madison and East 31st Street, now nearing completion. Work has also wrapped up on the main entrance on the southern elevation facing East 30th Street, with the sidewalk scaffolding dismantled.
Madison House. Photo by Michael Young
Madison House. Photo by Michael Young
The below photos show the retail structure, which had yet to rise at the time of our last update. Madison House occupies a T-shaped footprint with a one-story sliver of frontage facing Madison Avenue and a larger corner annex to the north.
Madison House. Photo by Michael Young
Madison House. Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
The final concrete pouring was underway at the time of our visit on the flat roof of the retail podium. This portion is clad in a mix of tiling, glass, and metal panels.
Madison House. Photo by Michael Young
Madison House. Photo by Michael Young
Madison House. Photo by Michael Young
Madison House. Photo by Michael Young
Madison House. Photo by Michael Young
The following shots detail the finished look of the main entrance with its thin vertical louvers covering the mechanical levels above the sidewalk canopy. Raised garden beds have been added around the doors.
Madison House. Photo by Michael Young
Madison House. Photo by Michael Young
Madison House. Photo by Michael Young
Madison House. Photo by Michael Young
Madison House. Photo by Michael Young
Residential units at Madison House begin at 150 feet above street level and come in one- to four-bedroom layouts with 11-foot-high ceilings. The property features 30,000 square feet of amenities including a 75-foot-long multi-lane indoor swimming pool and a spa with a sauna, cold bath, and hot tub. There will also be a lounge area, a fitness center elevated 120 feet above NoMad, a billiards room, a children’s room, a golf simulator, a Gachot-designed club area with double-height ceilings and fireplaces, and 24-hour concierge service within a garden-framed lobby.
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I love how Madison House looks in the Midtown skyline.
Serves at best to remind how great the ESB is.
Three towers in a photo shows their very beautiful, row on height level with wide views. And the finished look of the main entrance with thin vertical louvers, it looks like white curtain contrasting glass above; but both have prominence at front: Thanks to Michael Young.
It’s proximity to 5th and 34th makes it a blight on an iconic perspective of New York
Yes, “blight” is being polite.
Just wait until that supertall abomination 262 Fifth Avenue goes up just blocks from ESB. Ugh.
Why is the retail annex only one story?
An outcome of the ridiculous DOB setback rules that fly in the face of all aesthetic common sense.
This is the result of the same misguided zoning that produces all those hotels that are set back from the streetwall. Here the developers assembled an octopus of a site and moved all the allowable square footage to the center, leaving low rise buildings at the edges. That Madison Avenue/31st St corner is the worst.
Yep, nice building in a total vacuum stylistically, but a complete trainwreck with the existing context of the city around it. Why is there not a DOB code reform that addresses and solves these undesirable ground level outcomes? Are they blind? So much of Manhattan have been mutilated by these absurd unsightly setback “solutions.”
This house what’s featured on rendering store with “Pravda” logos…
Where are they…oops awaiting until Putin shot himself up in his bunker, then they free to flee here…
Built for Russian Oligarh Money, for them Exclusively, except only Communist China billioners or Dubai princes…
And this “Pravda” news for them…
Another pigstick in city skyline, making true race with Dubai skyline…
“Russian world” for Putin’s and world’s princes of wealth in once great NYC!!!
The building is a mess architecturally and contextually, but your post was even more of a mess. That was incoherent word salad.
What language is this?
Russian world for “the true”…
PRAVDA was a logo name on first rendering, now removed since Russian War in Ukraine.
And nearby supertall under construction (for many years of planning, site prep) is designed by Russian Firm MEGANOM, with headquarters in Moscow…
Or you NFA forget me really, Yes, this me, who against destructive NIMBY and against communist style architecture in NYC, even in most modern form…
Are you trying to outdo David : Sent from Heaven?
……..not much else to say……..
all this wait for a one story box surrounded by unfinished exposed party walls which looks like a “taxpayer”….and had the tower been a limestone, it might have blended into the ESB landscape instead of blocking it.