Render courtesy of Durst Organization
Current Status: Completed
Queens Plaza Park Vital Stats
Address: 29-37 41st Avenue, New York, New York 11101 (Queens Community Board 1)
Type: Residential
Name: Queens Plaza Park; Queens Plaza; New Clock Tower; Sven
Construction: Construction Begun 2018; Complete 2021
Design Architect: Handel Architects; Seldorf Architects
Executive Architect: Handel Architects LLP
Developer: The Durst Organization
Builder: _
Height: 755 feet (230 meters); 67 stories
Total Construction Floor Area: 795,076 square feet; 73,865 square meters
Site Area: 4,471 square feet; 415 square meters
Density: 958 units
View Zoning Diagram HERE
Loopholes Exploited:
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
