Render courtesy of SL Green/KPF
Current Status: Completed
One Vanderbilt Vital Stats
Address: 51 East 42nd Street (Community Board 5)
Type: Commercial
Name: One Vanderbilt aka One Vanderbilt Place
Construction: Begun 2015; Completed 2019
Design Architect: Kohn Pederson Fox
Executive Architect: __
Structural Engineer: Severud Associates Consulting Engineers
Developer: SL Green
Builder: Tishman Construction
Height: 1,401 feet, (427 Meters); 58 Stories
Total Construction Floor Area: 1,750,000 square feet; 162,600 square meters
Site Area: 44,048 square feet; 4,092 square meters
View Zoning Diagram HERE
Loopholes Exploited: Demapping a public street as an amenity plaza, Providing Subway improvements in exchange for overbuilding the underlying zoning.
Read through our blog below for more information on Supertalls.
THE GUARDIAN: Anything but “Super”
Like leggy plants given too much fertiliser, [sic] these buildings are a symptom of a city irrigated with too much money. The Guardian takes on the emergence of a "new" typology in "Super-tall, Super-skinny, Super-expensive: the 'Pencil Towers' of New York's...
Mechanical Voids Are Highbrow/Despicable
From New York Magazine's "The Approval Matrix: Week of February 4, 2019": "So it's perfectly legal right now for developers to put 160-feet tall "mechanical voids" in their buildings to give apartments higher priced views?" Wethinks they're looking at you, 50 W. 66th...
Out of this world!
GOTHAMIST picks up where it left off last week in its expose on the City Planning Commission's Zoning Text Amendment. Journalist Elizabeth Kim notes that although this language may impact the design of 36 West 66th Street, to revise "the design of a 160-foot tall...
Contact Information
Sean Khorsandi
Executive Director
LANDMARK WEST!
LandmarkWest@LandmarkWest.org
45 West 67th Street New York, NY 10023
212-496-8110
