The proposal by the Related Companies and Goldman Sachs to redevelop the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's rail yards on the west side of midtown Manhattan calls for a 9-acre waterfront park with a bridge to the Hudson River Park, and a two-million-square-foot headquarters building for the News Corporation that would be 1,080 feet high.
The plan would contain 14 buildings ranging in height from 33 to 74 stories.
The architects are Kohn Pedersen Fox, Robert A. M. Stern and Arquitectonica.
The proposal includes about 5,300 apartments of which about 2,000 would be rentals. About 20 percent of the rental units would be set aside as "affordable" housing.
The plan also calls for a $100 million contribution to a "signature cultural facility" and a "new public school and other cultural amenities."
A rendering indicates that the plan includes a tall pylon bridge between the development and the waterfront.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority opened a small exhibition today in a storefront at the northwest corner of 43rd Street and Vanderbilt Avenue of the five submissions it has received for the redevelopment of the rail yards.
News Corporation now has its headquarters on the Avenue of the Americas in midtown.
In addition to the Related plan, the submissions are from Extell Development and architect Steven Holl; Brookfield Properties and a team of six architects including SHoP Architects and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; the Durst Organization and Vornado Realty Trust and Conde Nast Publications and architectural firms FXFowle and Pelli Clarke Pelli; and Tishman Speyer Properties and Morgan Stanley and architect Helmut Jahn.
The exhibit will be open to the public until December 3.
The illustration at the left is from a video presentation at the exhibition and its shows the Javits Convention Center and a generic rendering of planned Hudson Boulevard future development to the north of the Related proposal.
A call today from CityRealty.com to Related for more information on its proposal was not returned.
The plan would contain 14 buildings ranging in height from 33 to 74 stories.
The architects are Kohn Pedersen Fox, Robert A. M. Stern and Arquitectonica.
The proposal includes about 5,300 apartments of which about 2,000 would be rentals. About 20 percent of the rental units would be set aside as "affordable" housing.
The plan also calls for a $100 million contribution to a "signature cultural facility" and a "new public school and other cultural amenities."
A rendering indicates that the plan includes a tall pylon bridge between the development and the waterfront.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority opened a small exhibition today in a storefront at the northwest corner of 43rd Street and Vanderbilt Avenue of the five submissions it has received for the redevelopment of the rail yards.
News Corporation now has its headquarters on the Avenue of the Americas in midtown.
In addition to the Related plan, the submissions are from Extell Development and architect Steven Holl; Brookfield Properties and a team of six architects including SHoP Architects and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; the Durst Organization and Vornado Realty Trust and Conde Nast Publications and architectural firms FXFowle and Pelli Clarke Pelli; and Tishman Speyer Properties and Morgan Stanley and architect Helmut Jahn.
The exhibit will be open to the public until December 3.
The illustration at the left is from a video presentation at the exhibition and its shows the Javits Convention Center and a generic rendering of planned Hudson Boulevard future development to the north of the Related proposal.
A call today from CityRealty.com to Related for more information on its proposal was not returned.
Architecture Critic
Carter Horsley
Since 1997, Carter B. Horsley has been the editorial director of CityRealty. He began his journalistic career at The New York Times in 1961 where he spent 26 years as a reporter specializing in real estate & architectural news. In 1987, he became the architecture critic and real estate editor of The New York Post.
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