El concurso fue ganado por Foster + Partners (que parece estar de suerte en Nueva York ultimamente) y también participarón Atelier Christian de Portzamparc, Ateliers Jean Nouvel, Herzog & de Meuron, KPF, Maki and Associates, Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Richard Meier, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners y Zaha Hadid Architects.
Responsables del proyecto.- Shohei Shigematsu, Rem Koolhaas.
Arquitecto asociado.- Jason Long
Arquitecto de proyecto.- Jake Forster
Equipo.- Ted Lin, Sandy Yum, Ahmadreza Schricker, Patrick Hobgood, Daniel Quesada Lombo, Andy Westner, Rob Daurio, Clarisa Garcia Fresco, Carla Hani, Suzan Ibrahim, Christina Argyrou, Cass Nakashima, Lisa Hollywood, Denis Bondar.
Texto del proyecto.-
For commercial buildings, Manhattan’s zoning laws prescribe a silhouette from which there is no escape (yet): a stretched pyramid. Our current aesthetics oscillate between nearly exhausted orthogonality and a still immature curvaceousness.
Our building is an intersection of these two observations: it proposes a stack of three cubes—the lower one a full solid block on Park Avenue, the smallest on top, rotated 45 degrees vis a vis the Manhattan grid, oriented beyond its mere location in a sweep from midtown to Central Park.
The three cubes are connected by curved planes to create a subtle alternation of flat and three dimensional planes, each reflecting sky and city in their own way.
The shape is at the same time highly artistic and highly efficient, a diagram of maximum beauty and maximum rentability, combined in a single, Brancusi-like shape. Its geometry at the same time reinforces and escapes the existing city. It resonates with each of its famous neighbors—Seagram, Lever, AT&T, Racquet Club—yet is emphatically futuristic.
Its conceptual model accommodates both the design competition’s request to maintain 25% of the existing building and the entirely-from-scratch scenario with equal ease.
CRÉDITOS.
Situación: Concurso junio 2012.
Cliente: L&L Holdings.
Localización: New York, NY, USA.
Lugar: 425 Park Avenue, entre 55th and 56th St. Nueva york. EE.UU.
Programa: 564,040 gsf / 52,401 m2 torre de oficinas, incorporando el 25% del edificio existente
Altura de torre: 634 ft, 37 plantas (36 por encima del existente).
Estructura, MEP / Services, Fachada: ARUP
Desplazamiento vertical: Edgett Williams Consulting Group
Presupuesto: Faithful & Gould
Maquetas: OMA/ Vincent de Rijk
Diseño gráfico: MTWTF
Superficie de parcela: 27,941 ft2
Areas de Oficina: Base (F1-F5):22,100sf/ Volumen medio (F13-F21):14,025sf/ Volumen superior (F29-F36): 10,070sf