

This Pencil-Thin Tower Sets a New Bar for Skinny High-Rises
Both 432 Park Avenue and 111 W. 57th Street in New York City hit the reset button on the notion of what a residential building could look like. These new and rising towers are pinnacles of urban infill development: super-tall, super-skinny projects whose slim footprints were never considered for high-rises before the current building boom. When it is completed, 111 W. 57th Street, designed by SHoP Architects, will be just slightly more slender than Rafael Viñoly's 432 Park. A


Condos, Floating Gardens Alternate in Wild Midtown Tower
ODA's newly-unveiled design for a Midtown East tower will try something new (for the firm, at least): prioritizing personal gardens as an amenity, and not at ground level but throughout the height of the building. The tower coming to 303 East 44th Street is being developed by Triangle Assets and will contain six 16-foot-high gaps throughout the height of the facade that will serve as wrap-around green spaces, the Daily News reports. The 600-foot-tall building will be divided


DAILY NEWS EXCLUSIVE: New United Nations skyscraper will have floating full-floor gardens
That deluxe apartment in the sky is nothing without Manhattan’s latest uber-amenity: A floating garden. A new 41-story skyscraper at 303 E. 44th St., will feature six 16-foot-high gaps in the façade — each filled with a full-floor, canopied green space that will wrap around the core of the tower. There will also be a private full-floor roof garden for residents of the penthouse. “To have an apartment at the top of the world is one thing, but to have a private garden at the to