Monolithic glass curtain walls are becoming less common in new proposals, for example, as designers work to incorporate concerns over environmental performance and facade modulation into their work. Right to Left: Jean Nouvel's 53W53, Raphael Vinoly's 432 Park Avenue, KPF's One Vanderbilt, and Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture's Central Park Tower.Īs incredibly tall buildings have advanced and proliferated across the New York area, the conventions of skyscraper design have been somewhat upended. The ever-multiplying clusters of residential and office towers taking shape in downtown and northern Brooklyn, in addition, have extended western outposts of the city’s world-famous skyline, while the relatively staid high-rises in Long Island City, Queens, as well as those located across the Hudson River in Jersey City and Hoboken, indicate that New York’s decade-long post-recession growth spurt is reshaping the entire region rather than merely a few choice neighborhoods. On Manhattan’s western edge, the Emerald City-like Hudson Yards development has sprung up over the last half-decade as an equally controversial set of sky-piercing buildings, their slanting, chiseled forms broadcasting ostentatious luxury, corporate retro-futurism, and America’s frothy economy all at once. The steady stream of neck-straining renderings for the row of supertall towers on the southern edge of Central Park, for example, has created what some have called an “accidental skyline” shaped in part by tricky real estate maneuvers, the exploitation of zoning codes, and piles of cash that nearly rival the heights of the towers themselves. New York City’s constantly growing skyline has reached new and dazzling heights during the second decade of the 21st Century. Together, along with a forthcoming set of acrobatic high-rises slated for the Brooklyn waterfront that SHoP has also had a hand in crafting, the featured buildings highlight several of the dynamic conversations taking shape within the realm of skyscraper design, as issues of extreme height, massing, historic preservation, and environmental performance play out across the city’s (and the world’s) evolving skylines. In an attempt to better understand the micro- and macro-forces at play shaping the city’s skyline, we’re taking a look at three recent distinctive tower projects designed by SHoP Architects in partnership with JDS Development, Property Markets Group and Spruce Capital Partners, including: 111 West 57th, a spindly supertall under construction on Billionaire’s Row the American Copper Buildings, two metallic skyscrapers overlooking the FDR expressway and 9 DeKalb, a forthcoming supertall tower set to become Brooklyn’s tallest building. One doesn’t need to visit New York City in order to understand that the city’s skyline is undergoing drastic change, both within and-increasingly-outside of Manhattan.
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