Teh One Who Knocks
09-19-2019, 10:53 AM
By ROSS IBBETSON FOR MAILONLINE
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New York's Central Park Tower is set to become the world's tallest residential building, offering penthouses for $63million and breathtaking 1,500ft views over the Manhattan skyline.
The skyscraper had its 'topping off' ceremony on Tuesday to celebrate the structure reaching its maximum height as it looms over Billionaires' Row. It will be opened in 2020.
Apartments now listed on the tower's website range from $6.9million for a 33rd floor, two-bedroom place, to $63million for a five-bedroom penthouse on the 112th floor.
Spectators at the ceremony on the 107th floor looked over the length and breadth of Central Park and cast their eyes south, over Times Square and down to One World Trade Center.
It will feature 'the world's most exclusive club' with a 60ft outdoor pool, sundecks and luxurious cabanas for its super-rich residents.
The Club, spread across 50,000 square feet, will provide a five-star beverage service so that home owners can cool off during the summer, as well as a spa offering massages, facials and body treatments throughout the year.
The largest penthouses, known as Duplex Residence Grand Salons, provide wall-to-wall views over the city and disguised structural elements to limit any impact on the panorama.
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Extell Development Company say on the building's website: 'Structural elements are discreetly located between the residential units, resulting in widescreen, floor-to-ceiling glass, unencumbered views and generous floor plates.
'These fine homes have been meticulously designed to maximize views and light with expansive dimensions and soaring ceiling heights.
'The strikingly appointed master bathrooms at Central Park Tower are offered in both dark and light schemes and are finished with the finest imported stones, custom millwork and premium fittings and fixtures.'
Extell President Gary Barnett said the $3billion, 1,550ft tower is entering an 'oversupplied' market.
'We have to price it at a reasonable range for this type of product,' he said. 'And we have to be flexible when we're selling the really large units.'
Curtains dropped on Tuesday as Barnett presided over the topping off ceremony, pushing a button to reveal panoramic views from what will be someone's 107th-floor living room.
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All of Central Park was visible, as were landmarks like the Chrysler Building and the George Washington Bridge. One block east was the huge crane helping to build 111 West 57th Street, a rival super-tall tower that's also scheduled to open next year.
Critics have complained the tall, skinny towers proliferating along the southern edge of Central Park over the last few years are casting shadows on the park, but Barnett dismissed those concerns.
'We've done shadow studies,' he said. 'It's just a question of, you know, occasionally somebody might be sitting somewhere in the park and there'll be a shadow for, I don't know, 20 or 30 minutes.'
Extell secured the right to build Central Park Tower by buying 6,000 square feet of 'air rights' from surrounding buildings. Its 1,550-foot height makes it even taller than One World Trade Center without its crowning spire.
The Council on Tall Buildings measures One World Trade Center's height as 1,776 feet, a tally that includes the spire.
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Measured just to the roof, One World Trade's height would be 1,368 feet. By comparison, Chicago's Willis Tower is 1,451 feet when measured to the top of its roof and 1,729 feet when measured to the top of the television masts atop its roof.
Central Park Tower will be the world's tallest building that is mostly residential, although there are other buildings with a residential component that will be taller.
Extell's partners in the project include Nordstrom, which is building a seven-story department store at the building's base.
Nordstrom department store will occupy the first seven floors of the West 57th Street building.
https://i.imgur.com/rt8MK2N.png
New York's Central Park Tower is set to become the world's tallest residential building, offering penthouses for $63million and breathtaking 1,500ft views over the Manhattan skyline.
The skyscraper had its 'topping off' ceremony on Tuesday to celebrate the structure reaching its maximum height as it looms over Billionaires' Row. It will be opened in 2020.
Apartments now listed on the tower's website range from $6.9million for a 33rd floor, two-bedroom place, to $63million for a five-bedroom penthouse on the 112th floor.
Spectators at the ceremony on the 107th floor looked over the length and breadth of Central Park and cast their eyes south, over Times Square and down to One World Trade Center.
It will feature 'the world's most exclusive club' with a 60ft outdoor pool, sundecks and luxurious cabanas for its super-rich residents.
The Club, spread across 50,000 square feet, will provide a five-star beverage service so that home owners can cool off during the summer, as well as a spa offering massages, facials and body treatments throughout the year.
The largest penthouses, known as Duplex Residence Grand Salons, provide wall-to-wall views over the city and disguised structural elements to limit any impact on the panorama.
https://i.imgur.com/kwhDPfF.png
https://i.imgur.com/06J5KqW.png
Extell Development Company say on the building's website: 'Structural elements are discreetly located between the residential units, resulting in widescreen, floor-to-ceiling glass, unencumbered views and generous floor plates.
'These fine homes have been meticulously designed to maximize views and light with expansive dimensions and soaring ceiling heights.
'The strikingly appointed master bathrooms at Central Park Tower are offered in both dark and light schemes and are finished with the finest imported stones, custom millwork and premium fittings and fixtures.'
Extell President Gary Barnett said the $3billion, 1,550ft tower is entering an 'oversupplied' market.
'We have to price it at a reasonable range for this type of product,' he said. 'And we have to be flexible when we're selling the really large units.'
Curtains dropped on Tuesday as Barnett presided over the topping off ceremony, pushing a button to reveal panoramic views from what will be someone's 107th-floor living room.
https://i.imgur.com/yKEMJGI.png
https://i.imgur.com/GI9TkLQ.png
All of Central Park was visible, as were landmarks like the Chrysler Building and the George Washington Bridge. One block east was the huge crane helping to build 111 West 57th Street, a rival super-tall tower that's also scheduled to open next year.
Critics have complained the tall, skinny towers proliferating along the southern edge of Central Park over the last few years are casting shadows on the park, but Barnett dismissed those concerns.
'We've done shadow studies,' he said. 'It's just a question of, you know, occasionally somebody might be sitting somewhere in the park and there'll be a shadow for, I don't know, 20 or 30 minutes.'
Extell secured the right to build Central Park Tower by buying 6,000 square feet of 'air rights' from surrounding buildings. Its 1,550-foot height makes it even taller than One World Trade Center without its crowning spire.
The Council on Tall Buildings measures One World Trade Center's height as 1,776 feet, a tally that includes the spire.
https://i.imgur.com/m9n6Soz.png
https://i.imgur.com/rM0ge0H.png
https://i.imgur.com/nQE8wNT.png
Measured just to the roof, One World Trade's height would be 1,368 feet. By comparison, Chicago's Willis Tower is 1,451 feet when measured to the top of its roof and 1,729 feet when measured to the top of the television masts atop its roof.
Central Park Tower will be the world's tallest building that is mostly residential, although there are other buildings with a residential component that will be taller.
Extell's partners in the project include Nordstrom, which is building a seven-story department store at the building's base.
Nordstrom department store will occupy the first seven floors of the West 57th Street building.