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Central Park Tower
Central Park Tower
New York, NY, United States
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Central Park Tower
New York, NY, United States
Project Featured on Feb 09, 2024
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2020
Central Park Tower is a beacon of glass and steel, rising 472 meters above the ground plane. The new quintessentially New York tower is now certified as the world’s tallest residential building. Located on West 57th Street, each residence has gracious living and entertaining spaces that maximize multiple panoramas and citywide views from floor-to-ceiling windows.
The residential program has 179 residences that range from one-to-four bedrooms to studio suites and full-floor duplex and triplex homes. The program is organized vertically into of tiers that are separated and distinguished by the major mechanical floors distributed through the tower. As the tower climbs vertically, the corners set back and notch, helping counteract wind loads and helping achieve the desirable unit size and layouts on the upper tiers, while also providing private terraces for special units.
The podium features a new department store, characterized with an undulating curved glass facade that brings prominence to the flagship store. The 225,000-sf space occupies seven retail floors, including an upper-level mechanical floor and a below-grade retail back-of house floor.
Central Park Tower is rich with amenities. Functional spaces include onsite daycare facilities, dry cleaning, storage lockers, and bike storage. Entertainment spaces include lounges, pools, spa areas, landscaped terraces, and the “Central Park Club” with 50,000 sf of amenities across three floors, including a residents’ lounge with billiards, a cigar bar, and screening room. The showpiece is a 15,000-sf outdoor terrace with a pool, cabanas, a bar, a screening wall, and an outdoor children’s playground.
A major design feature is the building’s cantilever. The cantilever occurs 290 feet above grade and slips the body of the tower east. This eccentricity demanded structural load shifts, as well as design solutions that would address the context. Numerous studies were done to understand the impact of the cantilever from the street: what would you see while walking along 57th and how would it impact the context? The most immediate consideration was to be for the Arts Student League next door, which is not just a typical contextual building. The use and life of that building demanded that we understood the standard and quality of light conducive to the work being created by the students. Skylights that bring non-glare diffuse light into their space, would remain and be very sensitive to light pollution.
The solution was to study façade materials that, through their luminescence and texture, would diffuse light, reduce reflectivity, and meet the strict requirements for art. The entire eastern base of the Tower is clad in zinc, which is a material that is creating the light quality required but also a low embodied-carbon material that supported the sustainable principles of the tower. The beauty of the zinc is in its lifecycle. The material weathers or patinas over time and will add a softer, even artful, quality to the base of the tower as it relates to the neighborhood.
The residential program has 179 residences that range from one-to-four bedrooms to studio suites and full-floor duplex and triplex homes. The program is organized vertically into of tiers that are separated and distinguished by the major mechanical floors distributed through the tower. As the tower climbs vertically, the corners set back and notch, helping counteract wind loads and helping achieve the desirable unit size and layouts on the upper tiers, while also providing private terraces for special units.
The podium features a new department store, characterized with an undulating curved glass facade that brings prominence to the flagship store. The 225,000-sf space occupies seven retail floors, including an upper-level mechanical floor and a below-grade retail back-of house floor.
Central Park Tower is rich with amenities. Functional spaces include onsite daycare facilities, dry cleaning, storage lockers, and bike storage. Entertainment spaces include lounges, pools, spa areas, landscaped terraces, and the “Central Park Club” with 50,000 sf of amenities across three floors, including a residents’ lounge with billiards, a cigar bar, and screening room. The showpiece is a 15,000-sf outdoor terrace with a pool, cabanas, a bar, a screening wall, and an outdoor children’s playground.
A major design feature is the building’s cantilever. The cantilever occurs 290 feet above grade and slips the body of the tower east. This eccentricity demanded structural load shifts, as well as design solutions that would address the context. Numerous studies were done to understand the impact of the cantilever from the street: what would you see while walking along 57th and how would it impact the context? The most immediate consideration was to be for the Arts Student League next door, which is not just a typical contextual building. The use and life of that building demanded that we understood the standard and quality of light conducive to the work being created by the students. Skylights that bring non-glare diffuse light into their space, would remain and be very sensitive to light pollution.
The solution was to study façade materials that, through their luminescence and texture, would diffuse light, reduce reflectivity, and meet the strict requirements for art. The entire eastern base of the Tower is clad in zinc, which is a material that is creating the light quality required but also a low embodied-carbon material that supported the sustainable principles of the tower. The beauty of the zinc is in its lifecycle. The material weathers or patinas over time and will add a softer, even artful, quality to the base of the tower as it relates to the neighborhood.
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