1 Park Lane

Handel Architects Behind Design of 1,210-Foot Tall 1 Park Lane, aka 36 Central Park South

8:30 am on May 28, 2015 By Nikolai Fedak

Yesterday, YIMBY revealed the exteriors for 1 Park Lane, which has an actual address of 36 Central Park South, the site of the current Helmsley Park Lane. While we speculated that Vinoly was behind the renderings, we have now learned that Handel Architects is in fact behind the design, which is unsurprising considering the supertall does resemble a vertically extruded take on the Trump Soho (another Handel project). The 1,210-foot tall building will have 88 condominiums, and completion is expected by 2020.

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250 5th avenue gmaps

Office Building at 250 Fifth Avenue Wants to Become a Hotel, Add a 23-Story Tower Next Door

7:30 am on May 28, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

A landmarked five-story, turn-of-the-century office building at 250 Fifth Avenue, on the corner of 28th Street in NoMad, may become a hotel and grow a 23-story tower behind it. Alteration applications were filed yesterday to expand the building to 23 stories, but the developer tells us that the single-story storefronts on 28th Street, behind the hotel, will support the new tower.

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333 Schermerhorn Street

53-Story Mixed-Use Tower At 333 Schermerhorn Street Now Rising, Downtown Brooklyn

6:30 am on May 28, 2015 By Reid Wilson

In January, the foundation was being poured at 333 Schermerhorn Street, the site of Steiner Studios’ 53-story, 581-unit mixed-use tower in Downtown Brooklyn; Brownstoner has the latest update, and it appears the tower portion is now rising and is already a few floors above the base podium. Dattner Architects and Goldstein Hill & West Architects are designing, and completion is expected in 2017.