Curtain wall installation is progressing on The Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Tower, a 12-story waterfront expansion of the Hospital For Special Surgery at 535 East 70th Street in the Lenox Hill section of Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Designed by EwingCole, the $200 million addition will span 100,000 square feet directly over FDR Drive and connect the main hospital wing to the south via a sky bridge. Tishman Construction Corp. is the general contractor for the property, which is located between East 71st and 72nd Streets.
The steel superstructure topped out since our last update in early October, when the platform over the FDR Drive was still being erected. The lower half of the building is already enclosed in the reflective glass curtain wall. The diagonal buttresses on the eastern elevation are in place and will eventually be encased in a metallic cladding.
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 renderings depict the building with a conventional rectangular massing and enclosed with a reflective glass curtain wall. A series of supporting trusses on the eastern side extend up from the waterfront pedestrian pathway and fork out into diagonal beams that connect to the tower between the fourth and fifth story. The building is topped with a mechanical bulkhead enclosed in light-gray paneling with cut-out corners, and its height aligns with the main hospital tower directly to the south.
Rendering courtesy of EwingCole.
Rendering courtesy of EwingCole.
Rendering courtesy of EwingCole.
The Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Tower will increase the hospital’s operating capacity by 25 percent with more private patient rooms and reconfigurable operating rooms, doctors’ offices, and clinical and research facilities. The expansion is part of the $300 million renovation to the Hospital For Special surgery complex. The below renderings depict a typical patient room and the seating area.
Rendering courtesy of EwingCole.
Rendering courtesy of EwingCole.
The nearest subway from the property is the Q train at the 72nd Street station along Second Avenue.
Construction on The Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Tower at the Hospital For Special Surgery is slated for completion this winter, as noted on site.
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I can’t wait for the esplanade to reopen. The obstruction and forced detour to York Avenue or First Avenue with its bike lane, puts bikers right in the thick of traffic until 79th Street to East End Avenue and back to the esplanade/Greenway. Some of the worst traffic is on the UES and going by the HSS is some of the worst of the worst.
I strongly second your comment. Can’t wait for my daily 16 mile bike commute to get significantly safer.
Curious -who is installing the curtain wall ?
This looks wonderful. We should be creating new space over the entire length of the FDR. This is not the first example. It has been done in several locations along the FDR such as Carl Schurz Park, the neighborhood of Sutton place and most recently Rockefeller University. The latter had prefabricated modular segments created and installed over the FDR, providing them with 2 acres of land to build on. On top of that, these modular segments were installed without the need to completely shut down the FDR. Rockefeller University had to purchase air rights to do this, which means the city made money. In addition, there are taxes being paid on the structures built on top. It’s the same with Sutton Place. The eastern half of the neighborhood sits on top of the FDR. The city is making money from taxes being paid on this new land.
This is a nice project that is very much needed and will add jobs and services to the neighborhood. That said, I hope they will install and maintain a REALLY GOOD air filtration system! Car exhaust and anesthesia seem like a terrible mix.
HSS – who successfully amputated my foot and gave me the latest tech, treated me like royalty throughout. You deserve the best expansion possible. Should I someday have future distress? I hope it’s orthopedic because HSS is where I want to be. I’m 2 years out, no pain, and usually can’t remember which is my “meat” foot and what’s not. I am very fortunate and grateful to HSS, and Dr. Rozbruch and his team.
Medical equipment stores may benefit from this development project, I would like to add: Thanks.