Render courtesy of ATCHAIN
Current Status: Under Construction
JPMorgan Chase World Headquarters Vital Stats
Address: 270 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10017 (Community Board 5)
Type: Commercial
Name: JPMorgan Chase World Headquarters; 270 Park Avenue; JPMorgan Chase Tower
Construction: Begins 2020; Complete by 2025
Design Architect: Foster + Partners Architects
Executive Architect: AAI Architects, P.C.
Developer: JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Tishman Speyer
Builder: _
Height: 1,338 feet (423 meters); 60 stories
Total Construction Floor Area: 2,500,000 square feet; 232,257 square meters
Site Area: 80,333 square feet
There are no zoning documents currently available to the public for this development.
Superlatives: Largest controlled demolition in human history and will set the record for the tallest New York building to be powered by hydroelectric energy.
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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
