Have you ever seen a building being pulled apart from the inside? You’re about to. The latest renderings of 303 East 44th Street show a slender glass tower whose floors are separated by 16-foot gaps and supported by elegantly sculpted concrete beams. The effect is that the building looks like it is being slowly stretched, as if the floors were glued together or stuck together with gum. To see how ODA New York’s Eran Chen does it, watch the above video or visit The Real Deal‘s

ODA New York's residential tower for Manhattan features open-air terraces between the floors, designed to fulfil "the dream of a suburban backyard" Called East 44th Street, the 41-storey glass tower is slated to be constructed in midtown Manhattan on a site that currently contains a mid-rise residential building. The top half of the building will feature 16-foot-high (4.8 metres) "gaps" between every two to three floors that will be occupied by open-air terraces. Each private

In their pursuit to improve the quality of urban life and increase the amount of green space in the city, ODA New York has unveiled plans for a stunning residential tower featuring "open floors", each 16 feet high, between every two floors. "There is a huge disconnect between how we live in our cities and what we need, as human beings, for quality of life," said Eran Chen, the founder and executive director. "I don’t think that we should be forced to choose between enduring i

ODA New York's new tower proposal changes the formal expressions of all super-tall skyscrapers of New York- ODA NY studio designed a new tower that creates wider green spaces and private gardens for residents- which will also create a new historical era in architecture. The project is called ''East 44th Street''. ODA New York, in their well-documented pursuit to improve the quality of urban life, designs the most expansive example yet of urban green space, and increased natur

ODA Architecture is throwing back to the Space Age with its latest designs for a tower at 303 East 44th Street, which is being developed by Triangle Equities. The top half of the building will feature 16-foot gaps between every two floors that are separated by white beams, The Real Deal reports. The spaces between the floors will be turned into private, outdoor sculpture gardens. "There's going to be a time in New York City where living without a substantial outdoor space is

Last Spring, the New York Daily News brought us the first renderings of Triangle Assets’ 41-story, 44-unit residential building planned at 303 East 44th Street, in Midtown East. Now updated renderings have surfaced of the ODA Architecture-designed project. The tower will stand 600 feet in height and its residential units will measure from roughly 1,000 to 2,000 square feet. Units will also feature shared, but private, outdoor garden spaces. Completion is expected in 2017, ac

303 East 44th Street is full of 16-foot gaps between floors that create private gardens A new Midtown East tower will look like it’s being pulled apart: The floors will be vertically separated and supported by smooth, white beams, like ligaments stretching between the floors. Or, like chewing gum suspended between the sidewalk and a shoe. The latest renderings of 303 East 44th Street show a slender glass tower whose floors are separated by 16-foot gaps and supported by elegan

Benjamin Stavrach, 21 Vice President of Development and Director of Leasing and Property Management at Triangle Assets Benjamin Stavrach got an up-close-and-personal introduction to real estate. His father, Joseph Stavrach, the chief executive officer of Triangle Assets, moved his desk over to make room for him. The senior Mr. Stavrach instructed his son to keep his eyes and ears open during every phone call and every meeting. “I really learned from him for a year,” the junio