This strikingly tall and narrow 60-story condo tower is to be known as One Madison Park and will smartly have its entrance on the leafy block of 23 East 22nd Street in Manhattan's Flatiron district. Only 100 feet shorter than the nearby Clock Tower building, One Madison Park will have just 70 condominium apartments (no more than two per floor). Units will range from one to four bedrooms, with a triplex penthouse. The glassy curtain wall will be divided into discreet sections as it rises, almost like stacked cubes. Views up Madison Avenue and toward the midtown skyline will be unobstructed. A second condo tower designed by Rem Koolhaas will sit on 22nd Street. After the jump another view of the condo tower in context from the busier 23rd Street side, and a look at that mad Madison Avenue view.
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If only the most well located new condo projects are getting financing in the credit crunch, then Related's Superior Ink building at 70 Bethune Street (also to be known as 400 West 12th Street) in Manhattan's West Village would seem a good candidate to weather the storm. The PR machine behind this one is attempting to make this a downtown version of 15 Central Park West - incredible location, Robert AM Stern architects, historicist design. It's a straightforward formula for success. But word on the street is that Related's bean counters have value-engineered some of the life out of Stern's plans. Don't expect the no-expense-spared m.o. lavished on 15 CPW. While Stern's uptown loveletter to New York will be for the ages, this one seems unlikely to gain such widespread applause. Still, if you want only the latest in new construction and you must be in the West Village there isn't much to choose from. After the jump, a little more detail.
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