Work is nearing completion on 125 West 57th Street, a 30-story commercial building on Billionaires’ Row in Midtown, Manhattan. Designed by FXCollaborative and developed by Alchemy-ABR Investment Partners and Cain International, the 420-foot-tall structure will span 260,000 square feet and yield 185,000 square feet of full-floor Class A office space. The development will also include a dedicated amenity floor designed by Gensler, 7,000 square feet of retail space, and a new home for the Calvary Baptist Church, which has operated on the site since 1883 and sold the property to the developers for $150 million in 2017. The project is located on an interior lot between Sixth and Seventh Avenues between Christian de Portzamparc’s One57 and SHoP Architects’ 111 West 57th Street.
The glass curtain wall has finished enclosing the eastern and western ends of the podium since our last update in December, when the CMU structure remained exposed. The first story remains obscured behind the sidewalk shed as crews work to wrap up façade installation. The ground floor will feature separate lobbies for the offices and the Calvary Baptist Church, along with retail frontage.
125 West 57th Street. Photo by Michael Young.
125 West 57th Street. Photo by Michael Young.
125 West 57th Street. Photo by Michael Young.
125 West 57th Street. Photo by Michael Young.
125 West 57th Street. Photo by Michael Young.
125 West 57th Street. Photo by Michael Young.
125 West 57th Street. Photo by Michael Young.
125 West 57th Street. Photo by Michael Young.
125 West 57th Street. Photo by Michael Young.
125 West 57th Street. Photo by Michael Young.
125 West 57th Street. Photo by Michael Young.
125 West 57th Street. Photo by Michael Young.
125 West 57th Street. Photo by Michael Young.
125 West 57th Street. Photo by Michael Young.
Offices at 125 West 57th Street will start on the 14th floor, 170 feet above street level, providing tenants with views of Central Park to the north. Office floor plates will span roughly 10,000 square feet with ceiling heights of over 14 feet. Amenities will include a lounge, a meeting space, a board room, and more than 4,000 square feet of outdoor terraces.
The development is situated between the 57th Street subway station on Sixth Avenue, serving the F train, and the 57th Street-7th Avenue station on Seventh Avenue, serving the N, Q, R, and W trains.
Construction is expected to cost around $350 million and JLL will be in charge of leasing and marketing.
125 West 57th Street’s completion date is anticipated around the latter half of summer.
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You have to laugh to keep from crying.
Beautiful photos that give one a sense of the ‘glass canyon’ of 57th street.
Decent enough. Could have been taller in this location.
Totally underwhelming.
agree
Nice detail towards the base. Gives it some personality.
This is a sorry replacement for the historic Calvary Church I remember walking past on my first trip in 2017, that was demolished, and is now 6 FEET UNDER in landfill!
In the last few photos, I detect a subtle, yet elegant salute to our beloved Twin Towers.
The base and entrance have some interesting design features. Otherwise it’s another value-engineered blunder brought to the world by Extell.
I believe in addition to selling the property in 2017 for $150 million that the church was able to further monetized by selling the air rights toExtell’s 157 West, 57 St. several years earlier. Great deal for the church not so good for New York architecture
At first I was🤔, about to yawn🥱my disapproval,(like anyone cares right!?😅), but upon, standing back, trying to see the proverbial “Forrest through the trees”, and I think the architects did what they had to here 🤷, limited options, maybe, but I see clarity, and interesting vertical ascension & integration too👍
Blah, blah, boxey box
Church decision makers – just know that you are the ones who destroyed your beautiful home that can never be replaced. For yet another glass box (and I like glass boxes, just not when they replace historic pre-war gems).
and for what? you sold your air rights, you could have monetized the upper existing floors. As I recall it was a church at base, but offices or something else upstairs..
Your shortsightedness and greed is obvious to all. Shame on you.
The old building from 1929 was mostly the Salisbury Hotel, with Calvary Baptist at the base. The exterior was an odd “gothic” pastiche and the interior of the church was no great shakes.
Oh…too exciting for words.
W57 looks more and more like 6th Ave in midtown with every new project. Soon it will be entirely devoid of character. Sort of like what happened to Park Ave in midtown many years ago. The grand old buildings which had given it cachet were torn down and replaced with bland, boring glass boxes.