Current Status: Completed
157 West 57th Vital Stats
Address: 157 West 57th Street (Community Board 5)
Type: Hotel and Residential
Name: One57 aka “The Billionaire Building”; formerly: Carnegie 57
Construction: Begun April 2009; Completed 2014
Design Architect: Christian de Portzamparc
Executive Architect: SLCE Architect LLP
Developer: Extell Development Company
Builder: Lend Lease Project Management & Construction
Height: 1,004 feet, 5 inches (306 Meters); 75 Stories
Total Construction Floor Area: 853,567 square feet; 79,299 square meters
Site Area: __
Density: __
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
