Built the way New York used to build.
Forty-two stories of Indiana limestone and cast bronze, on a plan slender enough that the tower reads as a single vertical line from the Park.
Field & March drew 88W61 as a set-back tower in the pre-war tradition: a masonry base that meets the sidewalk, a shaft that narrows twice as it rises, and a crown that dissolves rather than announces itself. The setbacks are not decoration — each one buys a terrace for the residence behind it.
The facade is load-bearing at the base and rain-screened above, with piers deep enough to throw a real shadow. Windows are bronze-framed and operable, which is rarer than it should be at this height.
The building, in numbers.
- Architect
- Field & March Architects
- Interiors
- Studio Halloran
- Landscape
- Weir & Co.
- Height
- 42 stories · 508 feet
- Facade
- Indiana limestone, cast bronze, operable windows
- Ceilings
- 11 feet typical · 13 feet at the penthouse
- Structure
- Cast-in-place concrete with a central core
- Sustainability
- Designed to LEED Gold
- Completion
- Fourth quarter, 2027
A lobby you walk through, not past.
Twenty-two feet of ceiling, limestone laid in a running bond, and a single arched opening on axis with the elevators. The attended desk sits to one side rather than in the middle, so the room stays a room. Deliveries, packages and service arrive on a separate street entrance and never cross the residential path.
The interiors