Tall & Urban News

OMA has released a new preliminary rendering of 41-47 West 57th Street. About 237,100 square feet (22,027 square meters) will be devoted toward residential usage with 119 units, while nearly 205,100 square feet (19,054 square meters) of commercial space will make room for a 158-room hotel and a 10,212-square-foot (947-square-meter) restaurant. 41-47 West 57th Street is located between Fifth and Sixth Avenues and will include ground-floor frontage on both West 57th and 58th Streets.

The rendering is looking west from above Fifth Avenue toward the southern corner of Central Park and the Plaza Hotel, with 41-47 West 57th Street in the center of the image. The other slender skyscrapers and supertalls from SHoP Architects‘ 111 West 57th Street down to Robert A. M Stern‘s 220 Central Park South make up the right half of the rendering, rising above the early 20th century buildings along Central Park South. The building massing for 41-47 West 57th Street includes a sloped northern elevation facing Central Park, which gradually climbs toward a flat roof parapet. 

Sedesco wants to have the two elevators placed at the southwestern corner of West 56th Street and Sixth Avenue and lead down to the 57th Street station, which services the F train. This would be done under the new Zoning for Accessibility program, which allows developers to provide improvements to transit stations in exchange for more building allowances to a project within 500 feet (152 meters). 41-47 West 57th Street conveniently sits only 250 feet (76.2 meters) away to the east of the 57th Street stop. Sedesco also stated that the supertall would downsize to 385,706 square feet (35,833 square meters) if rezoning is not approved. 

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