OKO Group has released renderings of its partial conversion of the Crown Building at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, which is well underway with lofted scaffolding and a hoist structure fully operational above street level. As announced earlier this year, the property will debut as Aman New York, featuring residences and a hotel spanning the building’s fourth through 24th floors.
Permits have been filed for a four-story residential building at 64 North 8th Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Located between Wythe Avenue and Kent Avenue, the lot is four blocks from the Bedford Avenue subway station, serviced by the L train. William Lika of The Lika Organization is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Work has begun on the pilings for 601 West 29th Street, a 695-foot-tall residential skyscraper in Hudson Yards. Progress on the project, which is located at the corner of West 29th Street and Eleventh Avenue, has been swift since the lot was cleared and excavated over the summer. Designed by FXCollaborative and developed by Douglaston Development, the 58-story building is also known as Tower A in a two-building development on the parcel.
Permits have been filed for a 12-story mixed-use building at 212 East 125th Street in East Harlem, Manhattan. Located on the corner of Third Avenue and 125th Street, the lot is one block east of the 125th Street subway station, serviced by the 4, 5, and 6 trains. The Hakimian Organization is listed as the owner behind the applications.
The reinforced concrete superstructure of 555 West 22nd Street has quickly reached the tenth floor in Chelsea, and work shows no signs of slowing down. These large lower floor plates take up nearly the entire span of the property, while the next 16 floors will be smaller and form the main tower. Robert A. M. Stern Architects is the designer and Related Companies is the developer of the 26-story condominium project. SLCE Architects is serving as the architect of record. This will become the first Chelsea residential project for Robert A.M. Stern’s design firm and will contain a total of 39 units, averaging around 2,245 square feet apiece.
