Render courtesy of Schindler
Current Status: Completed
4 World Trade Vital Stats
Address: 150 Greenwich St., New York, New York 10006 (Community Board 1)
Type: Mixed Commercial
Name: 4 World Trade Center; 4WTC; 4 World Trade
Construction: Begun 2008; Completed 2014
Design Architect: Fumihiko Maki
Executive Architect: AAI Architects, P.C.
Developer: Silverstein Properties
Builder: Tishman Construction
Height: 978 feet (298 meters); 78 stories
Total Construction Floor Area: 2,500,000 square feet; 232,258 square meters
Filed prior to July 2009, there are no Zoning Diagrams scanned for this project.
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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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Sean Khorsandi
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LANDMARK WEST!
LandmarkWest@LandmarkWest.org
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212-496-8110
