West 57th Street / BIG

Written by Finn MacLeod

Architects
Bjarke Ingels Group
Location
West 57th Street, New York, NY, USA
Project Year
2015
Photographs
Field Condition

Partners-in-Charge
Bjarke Ingels, Thomas Christoffersen
Project Leader
Beat Schenk
Project Architect
David Brown
Project Team
Alessandro Ronfini, Sören Grünert, Maya Shopova, Lauren Turner, Tiago Barros, Tyler Polich, Ivy Hume, Yi Li, Daniel Sundlin, Thomas Fagan, Aaron Hales, Hongyi Jin, Mina Rafiee, Tara Hagan, Rakel Karlsdottir, Celine Jeanne, Aleksander Tokarz, Alessio Valmori, Alvaro Garcia Mendive, Felicia Guldberg, Gabrielle Nadeau, Ho Kyung Lee, Julian Liang, Julianne Gola, Lucian Racovitan, Marcella Martinez, Dominyka Mineikyte, Eivor Davidsen, Gul Ertekin, Maria Nikolova, Minjae Kim, Mitesh Dixit, Nicklas Rasch, Riccardo Mariano, Stanley Lung, Steffan Heath, Thilani Rajarathna, Xu Li, Christoffer Gotfredsen
Architect of Record
SLCE Architects
Landscape Architects
Starr Whitehouse
Structural
Thornton Tomasetti
MEP
Dagher Engineering
Civil
Langan Engineering & Environmental Services
Construction Manager
Hunter Roberts Construction Group
Transportation
Philip Habib & Assoc.
Building Envelope
Israel Berger & Assoc.
Marketing
Nancy Packes
Vertical Transportation
Van Deusen & Assoc.
Acoustical
Cerami & Assoc.
Wind
CPP
Environmental
AKRF
Renderings & Animation
German Glessner
Client
Durst Fetner Residential

Bjarke Ingels Group has reached the 22nd storey of its first project in the United States, a 32 storey sloped residential tower in New York City that will eventually be home to 750 people. The building is shown in recent photos from Field Condition draped in orange meshing as it nears the final stages of structural construction.

The building, which was approved in 2013 after a hotly contested debate over affordable housing provision, will feature stunning views of the Hudson River at a reasonable price: developers have agreed to a 35-year contract to control rent for low-income occupants.

The photos from Field Condition show the building's courtyard and balconies beginning to take shape on the notoriously narrow property. The gentle trademark curve of the structure has revealed itself and will soon be covered in cladding to complete BIG's ambitious design, along with the slim windows and angular balconies displayed in the renderings.

West 57th Street / BIG - Facade — Detail of the saw tooth slabs at the north façade along West 58th Street. Image © Field Condition

Bjarke Ingels has also taken to Instagram to celebrate the building's construction, posting photos of its milestones. W57 is set for completion in Spring 2015 and will top off in the coming months.

Courtyard complete

To see how the project will look on completion, see our post on the W57's proposal here.