432 Park Avenue
432 Park Avenue is a skyscraper under construction in New York City. Construction of the building began in 2012 and is scheduled for completion in 2015, placing it with a planned height of 426 meters, the second highest building in the city and one of the highest to be globally.
Survey
The plans for the building were presented in the fall of 2011. It is planned to build a 426 -meter-high skyscraper in the immediate vicinity to Central Park on Park Avenue in Manhattan. The building would be with this height, the expected second- tallest building in the city after the One World Trade Center is also under construction (541 meters) a few miles south in Lower Manhattan. The building would be according to its architectural height and nine feet higher than the former World Trade Center. In design terms, the operative on a square base building is distinguished by its very slender proportion. Even with the increasing height remains the extremely narrow for its size footprint unchanged until it is flush with a flat roof. Thus, the tower rises from one hand by its shape and the other by its height from the surrounding area. The tower is to be used almost exclusively for residential purposes, on 85 floors (marketed as 96) a total of 104 apartments are provided. Underground, there will be another three projectiles for technical facilities. The construction costs will be about 880 million euros.
Demolition of the Drake Hotel
On the property on Park Avenue ( with the same name address to name ) was previously located at The Drake Hotel. It was completed in 1926 through the company's Bing & Bing and had 21 floors with 495 rooms. It was a well-known hotel of the upper class for many decades. In 2006 it was sold by the hotel chain Swissotel for 440 million U.S. dollars to the investor Harry Macklowe, who demolished in 2007 the building.
Construction work
In January 2012, began construction site preparations. In May 2012, the first construction work began on the property, which already rebar was drilled and concreted into the ground for building foundations. On September 27, 2012, started on site with the construction of the first solid construction crane, which was taken a few days later in operation. In the first weeks of 2013, a second identical crane on the other side of the shell has been installed. The concreting Been mid- February 2013 so far advanced that the construction of the skyscraper street level had been reached. The inner core of the building made of solid reinforced concrete had crossed the street level by several meters at this time. After reaching the street level was begun with the construction of above-ground floors. Mid-May to 2013 was mounted with a size of two and a half to two and a half meters first glass. Half of the amount, around 210 meters was reached in January 2014.
According to several sources of a completion is expected by 2015.
The tower end of June, 2013, in the core of the building is already 20 stories high
432 Park Avenue on July 26, 2013, about 100 feet high
432 Park Avenue end of September, 2013, about 150 feet high
The building in late November, 2013, about 180 feet high
The construction site in 2013
The tower reaches half its final height in January 2014
The tower end of January 2014