Renderings have been revealed for the upcoming redevelopment for 383 Madison Avenue, a 47-story office skyscraper in Midtown East, Manhattan. The design firms working on the building revamp include Foster + Partners, Gensler, and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. The 755-foot-tall structure was originally designed by SOM and spans 1.2 million square feet of office space with the banking investment division of JPMorgan Chase as the principal tenant. The property is bounded by Madison and Vanderbilt Avenues and East 46th and East 47th Streets.
The main rendering above shows an aerial perspective looking east at 383 Madison Avenue with its proposed glass cladding, which would complement the curtain wall and dark bronze-hued paneling of Foster + Partners’ 1,389-foot tall 270 Park Avenue to the north across West 47th Street. Revamped sidewalks and outdoor public plaza space will span the area between the skyscrapers.
The following rendering offers a street level view of the northeastern corner of 383 Madison Avenue. The renovations will widen the entrance to the lobby up to 19 feet further from Vanderbilt Avenue than the current set of doors, which sit flush against the property lines. The new glass curtain wall and steel elements of the perimeter walls and columns are also visible.
383 Madison Avenue’s northeastern entrance. Rendering courtesy of JPMorgan.
The below elevation diagram of the skyscraper further details the proposed glass envelope, which will involve the removal of the original light-colored limestone panels, metal trimmings, and opaque spandrels around the corners of the octagon-shaped tower above the multistory podium.
383 Madison Avenue. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
Finally, the following plan outlines the revamped ground floor of 383 Madison Avenue, marked by the red square in its current outline, along with 270 Park Avenue to the immediate north. The chamfered northeastern corner will be cut out with a deeper overhang above that section of the first level, and a new entrance will be created on the Madison Avenue side of the building, replacing a set of old storefronts. Both 383 Madison and 270 Park will have access to the Long Island Rail Road network via Grand Central Madison, with connectivity extended to Grand Central Terminal to the south.
383 Madison Avenue. Diagram courtesy of JPMorgan.
Foster + Partners is the design team behind the interior revamp efforts that will include a modernized food hall and remodeled lobby. The latter change will require city approval due to the presence of a privately owned public space (POPS) for the entrance to Grand Central Madison.
JPMorgan Chase acquired 383 Madison Avenue in 2008 following the collapse of hedge fund Bear Sterns, which originally served as the anchor tenant following the building’s completion.
383 Madison Avenue’s transformation is expected to begin sometime after the opening of 270 Park Avenue, which is slated to occur later this year.
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Hard to contain my excitement. Enjoy the leases!
I don’t understand. The tower looks better as it is. Why must every tower be covered in glass?
Bear Stearns was an investment bank, not a hedge fund.
A nice ‘pocket park’ here instead of this mediocre ‘sidekick’ building would have been great..but who am I kidding..
It’s going from green glass to bronze glass, not sure what your point is?
This building is barely 25 years old and now will be ruined to look like every other glass box built in the last 10 years.
This is wasteful, stupid and sad.
Nothing wrong with glass. What is the alternative? Stone? Brick? And what about windows?
The former Bear Stearns building is a beauty. The revisions are as bad as putting a drop celing in the lobby of the Chrysler Building.
According to the sketch 757 feet
WHY??? There is absolutely no need for this and it will make the building a thousand times duller and more generic. This is disgusting.
This appears to be a rather handsome change, it’s quite a departure from the original – I like it.
Foster (and every other corporate architect’s) answer to every design is all-glass.
And what is so bad about that?
Guess they can sell the original limestone and replace it with far cheaper glass. Does Chase want to be a bank or a pawn shop…keep them away from Rockefeller Center.
What a ridiculous idea to clad 383 with the same color glass as its gargantuan neighbor. The current building looks fine as-is, and offers a pleasing contrast to what’s across the street. This reminds me of the miserable copycat facade just to the north of Lever House on Park Avenue. That office building replaced a masonry residential building that contrasted beautifully with Lever (check the vintage Ezra Stoller photo). Foster’s revision of 383 actually harms the esthetics of both buildings!
I am confused is this design by Foster + Partners or SOM? The article is showing SOM drawings.
383 Madison was completed in 2001. There is nothing outdated with the design. Seems like a huge waste of money.
The demolished 270 Park Avenue is > the new one. May this stain haunt Chase for the years to come.
improvement. yes
do it.
great investment and faith in midtown by Chase.
in a time of great uncertainty
The previous building was great. This was a stupid investment, a waste of money, and environmentally unconscionable.
I would think that in the next few years, AI will become so powerful, that it and relatively few people will be able to run even a huge company like Chase..Is all this Real-Estate needed?