Render courtesy of Handel Architects
Current Status: In Planning
260 South Street (Tower A) Vital Stats
Address: 260 South Street, New York, New York 10002 (Community Board 3)
Type: Residential
Name: 260 South Street; 260 South Street (Tower A)
Construction: _
Design Architect: Handel Architects LLP
Executive Architect: _
Developer: CIM Group; L+M Development Partners
Builder: _
Height: 798 feet (243 meters); 69 stories
Total Construction Floor Area: _
Site Area: _
There are no zoning documents currently available to the public for this development.
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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...
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