Renovation work is underway on Nomad Tower, a 39-story Class A office building at 1250 Broadway in NoMad, Manhattan. Building owner Global Holdings will replace more than 2,000 legacy single-pane windows with LuxWall’s Transparent Insulation technology, marking the first East Coast office implementation of its kind. The property is located between West 31st and 32nd Streets.
Renderings have been revealed for 625 Madison Avenue, a proposed 52-story skyscraper in Midtown East, Manhattan. Developed by Related Companies in partnership with Andrew Mathias and designed by Foster + Partners and Gensler, the structure is planned to yield 840,000 square feet of office space between the Plaza District office core and Billionaires’ Row residential corridor. The property is located between East 58th and 59th Streets.
YIMBY checked in on four residential and commercial developments among the wave of new construction in Washington Heights, Manhattan. All located near the 1, A, and C trains at the 168th Street station, the properties are part of the neighborhood transformation around the Columbia University Irving Medical Center, which includes larger projects such as KPF’s 1150 Saint Nicholas Avenue and Studio Gang’s 635 West 165th Street.
The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) is reviewing a proposal for modifications to 150 East 42nd Street, a 45-story office skyscraper in Midtown, Manhattan. Designed by MdeAS Architects and Higgins Quasebarth Partners and developed by RXR, the project focuses on upgrades to the building’s ground-floor entrances along East 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue, adjacent to Grand Central Terminal. The scope of work is limited to the entry areas, with no changes proposed to the tower or broader base of the building.
Construction is progressing on the eight-story Vagelos Innovation Laboratories at 1150 Saint Nicholas Avenue in Washington Heights, Manhattan. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox for Columbia University, the all-electric structure will serve as a new state-of-the-art biomedical research facility and also include symposium and community spaces for the university’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. The project is being built at the corner of West 167th Street and Audubon Avenue.
