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The Big Bend is a proposed megatall skyscraper for Billionaires' Row in Midtown Manhattan. The skyscraper, which was designed by the New York architecture firm Oiio Studio in 2017, would be the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere at 2,000 feet (610 m) if it were built. Reception to the proposal has been mixed.
270 Park Avenue, also known as the JPMorgan Chase Building, is a supertall skyscraper on the East Side of the Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Designed by the firm of Foster + Partners , the skyscraper is expected to rise 1,388 feet (423 m) when completed in 2025.
The history of skyscrapers in New York City began with the construction of the Equitable Life, Western Union, and Tribune buildings in the early 1870s. These relatively short early skyscrapers, sometimes referred to as "preskyscrapers" or "protoskyscrapers", included features such as a steel frame and elevators—then-new innovations that were used in the city's later skyscrapers.
111 West 57th Street, also known as Steinway Tower, is a supertall residential skyscraper in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, United States.Developed by JDS Development Group and Property Markets Group, it is situated along Billionaires' Row on the north side of 57th Street near Sixth Avenue.
175 Park Avenue, formerly known as Project Commodore, [1] is a mixed-use supertall designed by Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill and developed by RXR Realty and TF Cornerstone that is proposed to be built on the former site of the Commodore Hotel, currently the Hyatt Grand Central New York. As currently proposed, the structure would rise to a ...
For a list of tallest proposed buildings, see either List of future tallest buildings, or; List of visionary tall buildings and structures
The first supertall building to be built in the neighborhood was One57, a 1,004-foot (306 m) apartment building between Sixth and Seventh Avenues that was completed in 2014. [24] By then, several other even-taller skyscrapers were proposed or under construction along the stretch of 57th Street roughly corresponding to the southern edge of ...
5 World Trade Center (5 WTC; also referred to as 130 Liberty Street) [2] is a planned skyscraper at the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, New York City.The site is across Liberty Street, to the south of the main 16-acre (6.5 ha) World Trade Center site.