425 Fifth Avenue

425 5th Avenue | also 1 East 38th Street | Midtown | built 2003

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  1. 2001

    Michael Graves replaces Robert A. M. Stern as architect of the 425 Fifth Avenue tower

    Work on the Fifth Avenue and 38th Street tower began in late 1999, with Robert A. M. Stern as the original architect. In 2001 Michael Graves took over the design. The developer was RFR Davis. The result was a 55-story residential tower with 197 units, rising 618 feet at the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 38th Street.

    Source: Wikipedia

  2. 2002

    April

    The 425 Fifth Avenue tower tops out in April and opens that September

    The tower reached its full height in April 2002 and opened that September. Completion is usually dated to 2003. With 55 floors, it stood as the 96th-tallest building in New York City as of July 2016. It is also known as The Envoy, and RFR Realty now owns it.

    Source: Wikipedia

  3. 2003

    Air rights and a public plaza bonus add floor area to the 425 Fifth Avenue tower

    To maximize the floor area, the developers drew on air rights from two small neighboring buildings and on a zoning bonus for providing a public plaza. The site had earlier held a five-story structure known as the Siebrecht Building. The finished tower, completed in 2003, contains 197 units.

    Source: Wikipedia

  4. 2003

    Patterned windows and masonry tie 425 Fifth Avenue to the Art Deco skyscrapers of the 1920s

    The Skyscraper Museum's Sky High exhibition pairs 425 Fifth Avenue, completed in 2003, with 400 Fifth Avenue, a mixed-use hotel and condominium tower. Both rise above the lower buildings around them in Midtown South. The museum notes that their window patterns and stone cladding echo the Art Deco towers of the 1920s.

    Source: old.skyscraper.org

  5. 2003

    Graves stacks shops and offices below the apartments, with a sky lobby on the seventh floor

    Michael Graves's own project page describes the base as two retail floors under four office floors, each use with its own ground-level entrance. A sky lobby on the seventh floor serves the residential elevators. The seventh and eighth floors hold a swimming pool, fitness center and residents' club that open onto terraces formed by the zoning setbacks, and a small park on East 38th Street fronts the residential entrance.

    Source: michaelgraves.com

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