Finishing touches are underway on Two Manhattan West, a 58-story commercial skyscraper in the Manhattan West master plan in Midtown West. Designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill and developed by Brookfield, the 935-foot-tall structure will yield 1.9 million square feet of office space directly to the south of its 996-foot-tall fraternal twin, One Manhattan West. W&W Glass is the facade contractor and AECOM Tishman is the general contractor for the Midtown project, which is located at the northwest corner of West 31st Street and Ninth Avenue, between Hudson Yards to the west and the James A. Farley Building to the immediate east.
Since our last update in December, the construction elevator has been fully dismantled and the remainder of the vertical strip in the glass curtain wall has been filled in where the elevator was attached. Installation of the stainless steel paneling on the arched columns surrounding the lobby has also wrapped up. Crews are now in the process of forming the surrounding outdoor plaza with its staircases, garden beds, and sidewalks. This work should conclude in the coming weeks, followed by the disassembly of the wraparound scaffolding sometime this spring.
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
The following shots highlight the finished look of the lobby columns, which feature rounded corners and sleek chamfered edges that blend well with the curved corners of the tower above.
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
The below rendering previews the finished look of the plaza.
Rendering of ground floor and lobby spaces at 2 Manhattan West
Office amenities at Two Manhattan West will include a 3,200-square-foot landscaped terrace, bike storage, conference centers, and a fitness and wellness center.
The developers are planning to open the building for occupancy in the first half of 2023.
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In a photo, two towers stand next to each other looks grand, with a huge the external form located in the middle of city. When there is an opportunity on its reach a great height, crowd must be viewed to newly discovered. Very beautiful that they gain prominence from their easily identified on curved corners: Thanks to Michael Young.
They look like two shiny “sticks of margarine”! 😝
I dubb thee “PARKAY PLAZA”! 🤣
They have about as much appeal as margarine!
Not a fan of the trend of giving buildings meaningless numbers. What is the street address?
Also not loving these anti-urban empty lobbies with zero street level activity. These new projects feel very dead and sterile, not to mention unwelcoming.
It’s the width of the sidewalks and the public spaces it allows for that make it urban-appropriate. There is more room for street level activity in the public plaza spaces.
Beautiful, wonderful and exquisitely marvelous. We live is the greatest country and this is an elegant representation of our continued display of modernism. Looking forward in visiting. Go New York, you’ve done it again.
There’s a Whole Foods and a bunch of shops and restaurants around the middle of the complex
Now this is how you do glass boxes. I kinda love them. Especially the lobbies and those cylindrical air vents haha
And those curved glass corners are a nice elegant touch
These two have grown on me. There is an attractive, refined styling to the towers that require each other so that it all works. It’s a subtle, very classy design.
It will be nice when the scaffolding comes down, 9th avenue isn’t a disaster area, and there is a continuity between the Moynihan hall and the Manhattan West plaza.
Guess what more office buildings keep dream they will remain empty.
They were testing the crown lights the other night, the LEDs showed much movement in patterns and designs. Compared to the boring crown lights on the other tower
Many of the photos give me a creepy flash-back feeling of resembling the original twin World Trade Center towers. But now that I think of it, since that was 22 years ago, young New Yorkers
have no real idea of what I’m talking about….
These two towers are likely to stand mostly empty until maybe 2030. They represent a great example of arrogant oversize skyscraper design——in a neighborhood that doesn’t need them.
I don’t get why people think there isn’t demand for office space. Sure all the old 1940’s buildings are empty, but the new developments are extremely popular among businesses. Like the new WTC is at like 90 percent rented, HY is just over 80 percent and it just opened 4 years ago. And now the Manhattan west complex is almost completely rented INCLUDING 2 Manhattan west which has already been half rented before the construction is even complete. So can everyone who is begging for the death of NYC and no more office space kindly stfu and go find some NIMBY to rant on. Thx 😊