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515 7th Avenue. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox. Rendering by ATCHAIN.

Renderings Reveal KPF-Designed Skyscraper at 515 Seventh Avenue in Midtown, Manhattan’s Garment District

By Michael Young and Matt Pruznick

Renderings have been released for 515 Seventh Avenue, a 38-story office skyscraper in the Garment District of Midtown, Manhattan. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox and developed by Blenheim Realty, the structure is expected to span nearly 355,000 square feet and rise from a 19,750-square-foot plot at the corner of Seventh Avenue and West 38th Street. The project recently gained City Council approval.

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1 East 57th Street. Photo by Michael Young.

Plans Revealed for Louis Vuitton’s 485-Foot Flagship Tower at 1 East 57th Street in Midtown, Manhattan

By Michael Young and Matt Pruznick

A new series of diagrams has been revealed for 1 East 57th Street, the site of Louis Vuitton’s temporarily closed flagship store in Midtown, Manhattan. Developed by LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the parent company  recently filed plans with the Department of City Planning (DCP) for the project, which involves a vertical expansion of the current 20-story occupant into a 25-story, 485-foot-tall tower.  The new building will rise from the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 57th Street along Billionaires’ Row.

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One High Line's public park. Photo by Michael Young.

One High Line’s Public Park Opens at 500 West 18th Street in Chelsea, Manhattan

By Michael Young and Matt Pruznick

Construction is complete on the new landscaped public plaza at One High Line, a two-tower residential development at 500 West 18th Street in Chelsea, Manhattan. The park sits to the east of the twisting 36- and 26-story structures and was designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Field Operations in a private-public partnership between the City of New York and Friends of the High Line. Suffolk Construction was the general contractor.  The towers, designed by Bjarke Ingels Group for Witkoff Group and Access Industries, are also complete and span around 900,000 square feet with 236 condominium units in one- to five-bedroom layouts. The property also includes a Faena Hotel. The development is alternately addressed as 76 Eleventh Avenue and straddles the High Line on a trapezoidal plot bounded by West 18th Street to the north, West 17th Street to the south, Tenth Avenue to the east, and West Street to the west.

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JPMorgan Chase Holds Gathering to Honor Construction Workforce at 270 Park Avenue in Midtown East, Manhattan

By Michael Young

Yesterday, YIMBY attended a special block party at the JPMorgan Tower, the company’s recently opened 1,389-foot-tall headquarters at 270 Park Avenue in Midtown East. Designed by Norman Foster of Foster + Partners and developed by Tishman Speyer, the 60-story supertall skyscraper yields 2.5 million square feet of office space with a capacity of 14,000 employees, and is the tallest structure in New York completely powered by hydroelectric energy. Adamson Associates was the architect of record , AECOM Tishman is the general contractor, and Gensler is the workplace designer for the $3 billion project, which occupies a full city block bounded by East 48th Street to the north, East 47th Street to the south, Park Avenue to the east, and Madison Avenue to the west.

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415 9th Avenue. Designed by Brandon Haw Architecture Planning Design.

Renderings Revealed for Hudson Ivy at 415 Ninth Avenue in Midtown West, Manhattan

By Michael Young and Matt Pruznick

Renderings have been revealed for Hudson Ivy, a 34-story office skyscraper at 415 Ninth Avenue in Midtown West, Manhattan. Designed by Brandon Haw Architecture Planning Design and developed by Cove Property Group, the 535-foot-tall structure will yield 287,692 square feet of office space and ground-floor retail. The property is located between West 33rd and 34th Streets.

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