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The proposal by the Tishman Speyer Properties and Morgan Stanley to redevelop the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's rail yards on the west side of midtown Manhattan calls for 13 buildings with about 13 million square feet of space including 10 million square feet of office space and 3,000 residential units, of which about 10 percent would be affordable, and about 500,000 square feet of retail space.
The plan would also include a PS/IS school and a new "town square" for the West Side.
Helmut Jahn is the architect and Peter Walker is the landscape architect.
The plan calls for all the buildings to be LEED Gold-certified.
The project combines a mix of low-, mid- and high-rise buildings.
According to an article in today's edition of The New York Times by Charles V. Bagli five of the seven residential buildings "would be cantilevered over the High Line."
The high-rise buildings in the proposal are distinguished by broad diagonal banding designs. The two tallest towers are along Tenth Avenue and the northern one has a slanted east wall and the southern one has a slanted west wall. There is also a low-rise building with an asymmetrical fenestration pattern near the southeastern corner of the site.
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.
Morgan Stanley has its headquarters now in Times Square.
In addition to the Tishman Speyer and Morgan Stanley 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 Related Companies and Goldman Sachs and News Corporation and architectural firms Kohn Pedersen Fox, Robert A. M. Stern and Arquitectonica; and the Durst Organization and Vornado Realty Trust and Conde Nast Publications and architectural firms FXFowle and Pelli Clarke Pelli.
The exhibit will be open to the public until December 3.
The plan would also include a PS/IS school and a new "town square" for the West Side.
Helmut Jahn is the architect and Peter Walker is the landscape architect.
The plan calls for all the buildings to be LEED Gold-certified.
The project combines a mix of low-, mid- and high-rise buildings.
According to an article in today's edition of The New York Times by Charles V. Bagli five of the seven residential buildings "would be cantilevered over the High Line."
The high-rise buildings in the proposal are distinguished by broad diagonal banding designs. The two tallest towers are along Tenth Avenue and the northern one has a slanted east wall and the southern one has a slanted west wall. There is also a low-rise building with an asymmetrical fenestration pattern near the southeastern corner of the site.
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.
Morgan Stanley has its headquarters now in Times Square.
In addition to the Tishman Speyer and Morgan Stanley 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 Related Companies and Goldman Sachs and News Corporation and architectural firms Kohn Pedersen Fox, Robert A. M. Stern and Arquitectonica; and the Durst Organization and Vornado Realty Trust and Conde Nast Publications and architectural firms FXFowle and Pelli Clarke Pelli.
The exhibit will be open to the public until December 3.
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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