Construction has reached street level at 1710 Broadway, the site of a 54-story hotel skyscraper in Midtown, Manhattan. Designed by Moss Architects and developed by RIU Hotels and Resorts, the 633-foot-tall structure will yield 673 hotel rooms, as well as two 300-seat restaurants and a lounge bar. The 8,848-square-foot development site has 129 feet of frontage at the corner of Broadway and West 54th Street.
New renderings have been revealed for 18W55, a 26-story residential building nearing completion at 18 West 55th Street in Midtown, Manhattan. Designed by Morris Adjmi Architects and developed and built by Skyline Developers, the 289-foot-tall structure will span 152,084 square feet and yield 97 rental units in studio- to three-bedroom layouts with an average scope of 1,319 square feet. The project will also include 6,380 square feet of ground-floor commercial space and a 10,343-square-foot cellar level. The property is located on a formerly vacant interior lot between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
Exterior work is quickly progressing on Casoni, a 70-story residential skyscraper in the Garment District of Midtown, Manhattan. Designed by C3D Architecture and developed by Sioni Group in partnership with AB & Sons, the 785-foot-tall structure will span 384,118 square feet and yield 311 rental and condominium units with an average scope of 991 square feet. The building will also contain two cellar levels. The property is located at the intersection of Sixth Avenue and West 37th Street.
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.
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.
