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Mar 13, 2008 · March 13, 2008. More than seven years after he signed a contract to buy the last large undeveloped site on the East Side, the developer Sheldon H. Solow gained an important approval from a City...
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The Solow Building is one of the most controversial skyscrapers in Midtown and at the same time one of the most successful real estate businesses in the area. Although completed at the beginning of a major real estate depression in the city, its owner had pre-rented much of the building, first to Monsanto Chemical and then to Avon Products. With th...
The Solow skyscraper is located at 9 West 57th Street, between 5th and 6th Av, in New York, United States. Its presence is largely responsible for the subsequent remodeling of the Plaza District in the most prestigious office area of the city. Crossing the building you come to 58th Street, where you face the south side of the Hotel Plaza on which...
According to Bunshaft, the idea of slope originated by trying to find different ways to comply with the city’s complex zoning regulations and “sky exposure plan”, designed to ensure light and air reached the street. Slope maximizes building capacity that can be contained within a certain height by filling some of the space that might otherwise be...
This gigantic office tower, 130,064 m², set new standards in design with the most elegant concave façade of curtain walls of the city. The north and south facades of the Solow Tower project slightly from the edges of the building and are extraordinarily sensual due to the very fine details of the window joints. The exterior columns of the building ...
The building recedes a few meters from its construction line, intensely reaffirming its presence street level by covering its sidewalks with the same travertine marble used in the facades and lobbies. The north and south elevations of the tower slope gradually outwards and widen as they approach ground level. This innovative strategy allowed the de...
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Solow's tower was planned to contain a wide base and curving facades, which tapered at higher stories. The lots at 36–40 West 58th Street were separated from the rest of the site by a parking lot, so Solow planned a 13-story, 225-space garage on these lots.
Nov 15, 2007 · It is on this parcel that Mr. Solow plans to build a 47-story, 688-foot-tall office tower, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, as well as three residential towers of 57 to 66 stories.
Mar 7, 2023 · 0:56. The Latitude Five25 apartment towers on Columbus' Near East Side displaced dozens of people on a frigid Christmas Day last year. It wasn't the first time the now-vacant twin towers, built...
Jun 27, 2006 · The East River Realty Company, which is headed by Sheldon H. Solow, presented a significant revision of its plans to redevelop the Con Ed facilities along the East River south of the United Nations complex to the land-use committee of Community Board 6 last night. Margaret Taylor of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, which is co-designing the plan ...
