Current Status: Completed
Bloomberg Tower Vital Stats
Address: 731 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York 10022 (Community Board 6)
Type: Mixed Residential and Commercial
Name: Bloomberg Tower; Alexander’s Tower; One Beacon Court
Construction: Begun 2000; Completed 2004
Design Architect: Caesar Pelli & Associates; SLCE Architects
Executive Architect: AAI Architects, P.C.
Developer: Vornado Realty Trust
Builder: Bovis Lend Lease
Height: 806 feet (246 meters); 57 stories
Total Construction Floor Area: 1,406,047 square feet; 130,626 square meters
Site Area: 84,348 square feet; 7,836 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...
Contact Information
Sean Khorsandi
Executive Director
LANDMARK WEST!
LandmarkWest@LandmarkWest.org
45 West 67th Street New York, NY 10023
212-496-8110
