NEW YORK CITY — Durst Fetner Residential has commenced development for a new residential tower in Manhattan. West 57 will be an 870,000-square-foot high-rise building located on West 57th Street between 11th and 12th avenues.
West 57 will feature 600 apartments consisting of a mix of 80 percent market-rate units and 20 percent affordable housing. The base of the building will contain approximately 40,000 square feet of commercial space. One of the amenities of the project will be a large outdoor courtyard. Durst Fetner will be seeking LEED-Gold certification for the project. Danish architecture firm BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group is designing West 57.
“The building is conceived as a cross-breed between the Copenhagen courtyard and the New York skyscraper,” said Bjarke Ingels, founder of BIG, in a statement. “The communal intimacy of the central urban oasis meets the efficiency, density and panoramic views of the tall tower in a new hybrid typology. The courtyard is to architecture what Central Park is to urbanism: a giant green garden surrounded by a dense wall of spaces for living.”
SLCE Architects is serving as the architect of record for the project. Hunter Roberts will be the construction manager. The project is just in the beginning stages of the approval process, but it could break ground as soon as a year from now. Construction would take 2 to 2.5 years to complete.
— Coleman Wood