The eighth-tallest building on our year-end countdown is The Spiral, a 1,041-foot commercial supertall at 66 Hudson Boulevard in Hudson Yards. Designed by Bjarke Ingels Group and developed by Tishman Speyer, the 66-story skyscraper will yield 2.85 million square feet of office space. Turner Construction Company is the general contractor, Banker Steel provided the steel work, and Permasteelisa is the façade contractor for the nearly $3.7 billion project, which spans a full block between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues and West 34th and 35th Streets.
The tower’s exterior has progressed since our last update in June, with work now complete on the ground floor and main lobby facing Bella Abzug Park. The secondary construction elevator has also begun disassembly from the northern elevation, leaving a gap in the curtain wall that will soon be filled in.
The Spiral. Photo by Michael Young
The Spiral. Photo by Michael Young
The Spiral. Photo by Michael Young
The Spiral. Photo by Michael Young
The Spiral and Hudson Yards. Photo by Michael Young
The Spiral (right). Photo by Michael Young
The Spiral. Photo by Michael Young
The Spiral. Photo by Michael Young
The Spiral. Photo by Michael Young
The Spiral. Photo by Michael Young
The Spiral. Photo by Michael Young
The Spiral. Photo by Michael Young
Work has also been progressing on the landscaping for the building’s signature stepped terraces.
The Spiral. Photo by Michael Young
The Spiral. Photo by Michael Young
The Spiral. Photo by Michael Young
The Spiral. Photo by Michael Young
The Spiral. Photo by Michael Young
The Spiral. Photo by Michael Young
Several high-profile tenants have signed leases at the Spiral, anchored by Pfizer with 746,000 square feet. Other tenants include Turner Construction Company with a 13-year, 75,000-square-foot lease; Alliance Bernstein with 166,000 square feet; HSBC with more than 265,000 square feet across three podium floors; NewYork-Presbyterian with a 75,000-square-foot suite on the second floor; and Debevoise & Plimpton LLP with 531,000 square feet.
The pinnacle of The Spiral. Rendering courtesy of Tishman Speyer
Daytime rendering of The Spiral’s podium levels. Rendering courtesy of Tishman Speyer
Remaining office floors above the podium are available in three tiers: mid office floors on levels 21, 22, and 29 through 33 ranging from 43,904 to 49,566 square feet; upper office floors from levels 53 to 62 spanning 36,605 to 38,326 square feet; and penthouse office floors between levels 63 to 65 measuring 35,245 to 36,175 square feet. Amenities include a 66th-floor outdoor terrace on the southeast corner, a lounge, meeting and events spaces on the 66th floor called “Studio,” bike storage, and on-site executive parking for up to 30 vehicles for company leadership and C-Suite executives with charging stations for electric cars.
The complex will also house a new dining concept led by chefs Erik Ramirez and Juan Correa. The restaurant will be located on the ground floor at the corner of Tenth Avenue and West 34th Street.
Evening rendering of The Spiral’s ground floor and podium levels where the restaurant will be. Rendering courtesy of Tishman Speyer
The Spiral’s remaining construction should likely conclude within the first half of 2023.
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The tower’s design is on full floors with beautiful stepped terraces at daytime, at night I should see on ground floor and podium levels. Unbelievable that I saw skyscrapers in Hudson Yards, please opened the door to this city on watering views: Thanks to Michael Young.
Merry Christmas!
The best part will be the lush “hanging gardens of Hudson” when everything grows out, and drapes the building! 🤣🌳🪴🌿
That isn’t going to happen. Decades and decades of attempts at gardens like these, and not one has worked. Even in climates where it should work, and there’s the money and will to maintain.
Just a mediocre graffic. The green conceit will !poof! disappear once the maintenance costs are clear, and all that office space remains unleased.
Sad that with all this opportunity in the last decade to build substantive architecture in the city of Chrysler and Met, instead we get bad tchotchkes.
BIG is a cartoon of themselves.
Developer overreach. Couldn’t BIG do better? This is a 2020s version of the disheartening onslaught of towers on Sixth Avenue and Water Street. Good luck with the “gardens.”
Merry Christmas and beautiful photos!!
The worst tower of Hudson Yards because all that mattered was maximum square footage and Bjarke couldn’t manage enough to make it look good. It’s another glass box with a zigzag gash.
Merry Christmas!
The spiral effect is very minimal, quite underwhelming.
What a letdown…
I feel like if they hadn’t called it “The Spiral”, perhaps we would all judge this building differently…. It’s not really a spiral—maybe like an 8-bit spiral? As a building, it’s almost 55’s twin, size-wise…although I do prefer 55HY! Merry Xmas, YIMBYs!
And super nice pics, Michael Young!
Has anyone noticed that VIA the pyramid apartment building on 57th St. is rusted on the exterior
I believe this should be number 7 on the list not 8
Im missing the ‘spiral’ part of this. Its simply another Hudson Yards glass box with a thinly disguised gimmick to make it appear distinctive. It is not.