New Façade Begins Installation on JPMorgan Chase's 383 Madison Avenue in Midtown East, Manhattan

Renovation work is moving along on 383 Madison Avenue, a 47-story office skyscraper in Midtown East, Manhattan. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill along with Foster + Partners and Gensler, the project involves the replacement of the 755-foot-tall structure’s façade and reconfiguration of its 1.2 million square feet of office space to serve JPMorgan Chase’s investment banking division. The property is located between Madison and Vanderbilt Avenues and East 46th and East 47th Streets, directly south of the JPMorgan Tower at 270 Park Avenue.

A significant amount of the original cladding has been removed from the tower since our last update, when only the top of the podium had begun to be stripped. Crews are quickly replacing these sections with the new reflective glass curtain wall, as seen on the north and northwest elevations of the skyscraper just below the crown.

383 Madison Avenue. Photo by Michael Young.

Foster + Partners is also redesigning the building’s interiors, which will include a modernized food hall and remodeled lobby. The latter will require city approval due to the presence of a privately owned public space (POPS) for the entrance to Grand Central Madison.

The street-level entrance to Grand Central Madison at the corner of Madison Avenue and East 47th Street will remain accessible to the public.

The tower was originally designed by David Childs of SOM and was known as the Bear Stearns Building from its completion in 2001 until the company’s collapse during the 2008 recession. JPMorgan Chase acquired the building in the wake of the investment firm’s demise.

383 Madison Avenue’s transformation is slated for completion in the winter of 2027, as noted on the info board.

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