Façade installation has reached the halfway mark of 450 Eleventh Avenue, a 51-story hotel skyscraper in Hudson Yards. Designed by DSM Design Group and developed by Marx Development Group, the 642-foot-tall structure will house a 379-room Aloft hotel along with amenities including a business center, a ballroom, and a fourth-floor restaurant with a bar and outdoor terrace. Atria Builders is the general contractor for the project, which is located at the corner of West 37th Street and Eleventh Avenue, directly across from the Jacob K. Javits Center.
The angled floor-to-ceiling glass panels have enclosed more of the lower half of the slender reinforced concrete superstructure since our last update in early July, when exterior work had recently resumed in earnest after a prolonged pause. The western profile facing Eleventh Avenue is the farthest ahead, with the northern side along West 37th Street not far behind.
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Some sections remain exposed around the anchor points for the tower crane on the northern elevation.
Photo by Michael Young
Meanwhile, black soffits are being installed on the undersides of the overhanging angular edges at two-story intervals.
Photo by Michael Young
Installation of the curtain wall has also begun on the top floors of the skyscraper, and the crown is now enclosed in gray paneling with horizontal slats.
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
YIMBY last reported that the blank southern and eastern walls will eventually be covered over with EIFS panels.
Photo by Michael Young
No revised completion date has been announced, though YIMBY anticipates 450 Eleventh Avenue to finish construction around the middle of next year.
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The visual evidence of the eclipse of Western Civilization is the abandonment of any concept of beauty. These buildings- and you can see the results of an assemblage of glass boxes in your photos- have all the charm when viewed as a group as the parts shelves in a truck dealership. Of course, they are also disposable. No one is building with the idea of even one century to come.
The magic of New York’s mid-century skyline is gone. Our approval is reserved for the least bad among the glass needles of decosntruction.
We don’t live in the mid-century, do we? I’m curious as to why people suggest NYC should halt all development and remain a museum. The populatin in NYC certianly didn’t come to a halt mid-century. Fasion today isn’t mid-century. Cars certainly aren’t the same as they were in the mid-century. Nothing is.
If NYC were to be some sort of architectual skyline museum, I suggest we should have stopped at pre-war and it’s actually what came during the mid-century that should be scrapped.
Bigger Taller squeezed into plot lines
No air. No breathing space
LOL no view from upper floors, only looking across at more glass
Not inspired by beauty but greedy ego
Not qualifying for the NYC museum of the future
Looking across at more glass, no air, no breathing space? Do you not know your city? This hotel will have unobstructed views of the Hudson River Estuary forever, unless they build atop Javits Center (not likely at all). And this is an ideal location for convention center visitors feeding into an area with lots of retail and dinning that could certainly use a boost.
And how does “greed” and “ego” apply to the development of a mid-price hotel?
I agree Chip Maker. Clearly John G doesn’t have an idea about the location’s great views, ample air space. It’s totally away from the cluster of tall buildings around the main Hudson yards district. The closest glass tower is Lyra to the north, but even that is not directly in your face, as John G’s fearmongering is trying to desperately conjure and hope for.
You just aren’t smart enough to understand what he’s expressing.
Distinctive, to say the least..and what exactly is the origin of the word ‘soffit’ ?
Try the Merriam-Webster dictionary
This ain’t an English history website Monath 🤨 have you tried Googling?
The term soffit is from Italian: soffitto, formed as a ceiling; and directly from suffictus for suffixus, Latin: suffigere, to fix underneath
Thank you, John.
Probably the most unique glass tower in all of Hudson Yards, let alone New York City. There’s really nothing else quite like it 👍
Yet another “shiny glass tower” joins the unimpressive family of
“Dubai on the Hudson”!
Each time I look at these towers, they all start to look the same… 30, 40, 50, 60 stories of BLAH! 😝
I’m betting the contractor Hates assembling this curtain wall. It’s not looking as good as the rendering, and the base floors are a total disappointment. But it all fits with Hudson Yards.
I bet you’re right—it’s probably a real pain-in-the-ass!
BTW, does anyone remember Stanley, who opined that this building would never progress?
BoroDoug, I think it finally got through his head that work IS progressing. The silent cricket noise and lack of denial against the article is the reprieve we’ve all been waiting for. I think we won’t hear anything from now on 🙌
Angular glass facade and I think these sharp corners can be entitled with other skyscrapers, that over 50-story to grow taller in famous area of Hudson Yards: Thanks to Michael Young.
I like the overall look of the angled panels. Just wish all the glass had the same tint to give the base more continuity with the tower.
Gorgeous photos of the glass and can’t wait to finally see the ugly concrete walls covered up. So weird to see when you are in front of the Hudson yards mall
Great job to the contractors putting up the glass! Can’t wait for the crane and hoist to be removed and see the complete look of the angled glass for the full effect
The building looks like water damage and windows starting to disengage on walls.
Mayor Kenny, your comment sounds so delusional, belittling, and manipulative. Thank god you are not a real mayor tainted by corruption.
That entire blue glass box area of hudson yards is very dystopic. There is no filler buildings or older small businesses to give the neighborhood life. Just deadites in their blue cubes of CORPoratism and voided space in between.