Render courtesy of Rafael Viñoly Architects/Halkin Mason
Current Status: Completed
In the summer of 2014, 432 Park Avenue surpassed the Empire State Building as the tallest building in midtown, a title the ESB held since the Great Depression.
432 Park Avenue Vital Stats
Address: 432 Park Avenue (Community Board 5)
Type: Mixed Commercial and Residential
Name: 432 Park Avenue aka 432 Park Avenue Condominiums
Construction: Begun November 2011; Completed December 2015
Design Architect: Rafael Viñoly
Executive Architect: SLCE Architect LLP
Developer: CIM Group/Macklowe Properties
Builder: Lend Lease Project Management & Construction
Height: 1,396 feet, (425.5 Meters); 88 Stories
Total Construction Floor Area: 412,637 square feet; 38,335 square meters
Site Area: __
Density:
View Zoning Diagram HERE
Loopholes Exploited: Excessive Floor to Floor Heights (16’5″ on average); Excessive Mechanical Area (19 Floors!); Unenclosed Patios as design feature.
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
