Current Status: Under Construction
Sky House Vital Stats
Address: 15 East 30th Street, New York, New York 10016 (Community Board 5)
Type: Mixed Residential and Commercial
Name: Skyhouse; Madison House; 126 Madison Avenue
Construction: Begun 2017; Complete by 2021
Design Architect: Handel Architects LLP
Executive Architect: Handel Architects LLP
Developer: JD Carlisle Development Corporation; Fosun Group
Builder: _
Height: 805 feet (245 meters); 56 stories
Total Construction Floor Area: 407,521 square feet
Site Area: 10,044 square feet
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
