Topic: NYC: herzog & de meuron's tribeca jenga tower

[mrnyc]

funny thing about that, no one ever seems to jump out of buildings very often. not like you'd think. a college freshman or two at nyu regularly seem to jump every year in the fall, but anything else is rare and random. thankfully.

[Ram23]

This really will be a beautiful building.  The rendering animation is one of the best I've ever seen.

[jpop]

Me, too. Tronic does some other amazing stuff for commercials and whatnot.

I can't wait to see this building go up.

[mrnyc]

oh yeah, the animation is stunning....check this out, wired ny has screenshots!!!

[David]

I'm not sure if I like the wedged bean or not. It seems a trifle unnecessary. It's also a little disturbing since it gives the illusion that it is the only thing balancing the building. Sort of like how we used to wedge sugar packets underneath one of the table legs at Indigo.

[mrnyc]

the big news all week is that this stalled tower is back on at last
- it will be u/c starting next week (likely minus the bean)
- completion date is 2016:


Work to Begin on 56 Leonard St., a 57-Story Tower in Tribeca

BY CARL GLASSMAN
POSTED OCT. 10


....“It’s a very complicated structure,” said Tony DelGreco, a vice president of Lend Lease (formerly Bovis Lend Lease ) and the manager of the project.

DelGreco said that the first 10 floors will go slowly because of the large cantilevered apartments.

“When you get past the 46th floor that’s when you get all the cantilevers coming again and it slows us down again,” he said. “So this has an 18-month concrete schedule for that reason. It’s just a slower, methodical job. You have to go slow to get it right.”

DelGreco said construction will begin next week on the north side of the site where workers will begin the three-month job of chopping up the sidewalk and putting in utility vaults for Con Edison.  It will take more than a year-and-a-half, beginning in December, to build the superstructure, with facade work to start next July. The building is scheduled for completion in Spring, 2016.


http://tribecatrib.com/news/2012/october/1363_work-to-begin-on-56-leonard-street-57-story-tower-to-soar-above-tribeca.html

[StrapHanger]

This thing's gonna be awesome. It's amazing how resilient the high end condo market is in NYC

[mrnyc]

finances are set and constructionis again underway:


Big condo tower gets $350M funding
 
Financial package assembled by Bank of America, M&T Bank and others is one of the biggest since the market for condominiums began to revive last year.
 
By Daniel Geiger @dangeiger79
January 9, 2013 1:17 p.m..
 
Bank of America and a group of other lenders, including M&T Bank, have closed on a $350 million package of financing for a planned 60-story residential condominium at 56 Leonard St. in TriBeCa, sources familiar with the deal say.
 
It is one of the largest construction loans to be awarded since the condo industry began to stir to life last year after several years of dormancy following the Great Recession.
 
Bank of America has been an active lender to a growing pipeline of office, retail and residential development projects.
 
The North Carolina-based bank is in talks to provide part of a $200 million loan to the Related Companies to build a second phase to its Gateway retail center in Brooklyn's East New York section. The new wing of that project will be anchored by a Shop Rite grocery store.
 
At 56 Leonard Street the Texas-based development firm Hines is overseeing the project, which was designed by the Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron, which famously designed the so-called birds nest stadium for the Beijing Olympics, as well as the condo at 40 Bond St. in lower Manhattan, with its distinctive green-glass facade.
 
Executives involved in the deal could not be reached for comment.
..

Read more: http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20130109/REAL_ESTATE/130109915#ixzz2Ie22e1qS

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With foundation construction now complete at 56 Leonard Street, final utility vault work is planned for the Leonard Street roadway, between Church and West Broadway. In order for Con Edison crews to install pre-cast concrete vaults, the roadway will be closed for the next two weekends, January 19th and 20th, and 26th and 27th, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. Westbound motorists will be detoured to White Street, two blocks north.

The 56-story condominium tower, located on the large lot at the corner of Church Street, also is in the opening phase of superstructure erection. Contractor Lend Lease will install a tower crane at the site next month, with another Leonard Street full road closure expected the weekend of February 16th to complete the operation. More details will be posted here upon announcement.

The innovative new building, designed by the Swiss architectural firm Herzog and de Meuron, is expected to open in spring 2015, and will be among the tallest in Tribeca.

more:
http://www.lowermanhattan.info/news/56_leonard_street_utility_12109.aspx

[mrnyc]

from the site today
mostly it still looks like 2008
but its definately back to life


today

[mrnyc]

an army of workers on the site today.

crane tower prep!

[mrnyc]

here is another view from presidents day:




also -- these apts are officially on the market.
floorplans+news here:

http://m.ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/02/20/tribecas_longstalled_56_leonard_is_finally_on_the_market.php

[mrnyc]

per ssp the big crane is up and construction is already above street level:




this bldg should start to look real interesting right away - stay tuned!

[mrnyc]

i took these early this am

[mrnyc]

construction is moving along now!

[mrnyc]

70% sold -- apt renders and remarks here:


5.09.2013, 20:29 PM

Jenga-like 60-story skyscraper would be Tribeca's tallest


It looks like a Jenga game — but it just happens to be the hottest building in town.

Tribeca’s soon-to-be-tallest building, 56 Leonard, sold more than 70% of its 145 units in just 10 weeks — including one to a Frenchman who got so excited just from looking at renderings of the unevenly shaped structure that he bought a $6 million apartment over the phone.


http://m.nydailynews.com/life-style/real-estate/tribeca-new-tallest-60-story-tower-rising-jenga-game-article-1.1339903

[mrnyc]

somebody on ssp did a neat quick paste of the two new big downtown bldgs going up now -- 30 park place & 56 leonard:

[Loretto]

I'd contend that it's equally likely to be a shot from the future and Freedom Tower is still under construction.

[mrnyc]

^ lol!!!