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One Madison Park 
View from Madison Square Park (June 2010)Former names The Saya General information Type condominium Address 22 East 23rd St. Town or city New York, NY Country United States Coordinates 40°44′26″N 73°59′17″W / 40.74064°N 73.98807°WCoordinates: 40°44′26″N 73°59′17″W / 40.74064°N 73.98807°W Construction started 2006 Completed 2010[1] Height 188.22 metres (617.5 ft) Technical details Structural system highrise Floor count 50 (91 units) Design and construction Landlord Shemesh Group Architecture firm Cetra/Ruddy Other designers Rem Koolhaas Website One Madison Park 
One Madison Park in the background, with the Met Life Tower with its landmark clock, Metropolitan Life North Building and the black New York Merchandise Mart in the foreground
One Madison Park is a luxury residential condominium tower at 22 East 23rd Street, at the foot of Madison Avenue, across from Madison Square Park in the Flatiron District of Manhattan, New York City.
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History
The building under construction in September 2008; the Met Life Tower is in on the leftAlthough much of the area nearby is included in various historic districts – such as the Ladies Mile Historic District, Gramercy Park Historic District and Madison Square North Historic District – the location of One Madison Park is not, enabling the building to be constructed "as of right" with the transfer of air rights from the shorter buildings that surround the site.
When the building was originally announced, it was to be 47-stories and called "The Saya"; the name was changed to One Madison Park around the time that construction began in 2006. The building as constructed has 50 stories.[2] At one point, a 22-story building designed by noted architect Rem Koolhaas was to be the "companion" to One Madison Square, on 22nd Street, but current plans call for an 11-story building designed by Cetra/Ruddy, the firm that designed One Madison Park. Koolhaas designed the interiors of many of the condominium's amenities, which included a private screening room, an upscale restaurant run by chef Charlie Trotter,[3] a spa and fitness room, and a wine cellar.[4] The building, which contains 91 residential units,[2] is topped by an 8,300-square-foot (770 m2) triplex penthouse, for which the original asking price was $45 million,[5] which, when the building was first put on the market in 2007, included an outdoor terrace, a butler and a one-bedroom apartment for him on a lower floor.[3]
As of April 2010, the building had topped out, but was still not complete, having run into financial difficulties. Sales of residential units had stopped, but the appointment of a receiver on April 15 allowed sales to start again.[6] The building continues to be mired in financial and legal problems, including multiple lawsuits and allegations of fraud.[4]
Architecture
The building was designed by the architectural firm Cetra/Ruddy.[7]
Nicolai Ouroussoff, the architecture critic for the New York Times, called One Madison Park "a dazzling addition to a street that includes two of the city’s most celebrated skyscrapers: Pierre LeBrun’s 1909 Metropolitan Life Tower, across the street, and Daniel Burnham's 1903 Flatiron building, a half block west. It jolts the neighborhood into the present."[7] In the New York Observer, Dana Rubinstein was somewhat less enthusiastic. Conceding that the tower was "not ugly", she wrote that the building is "in its overpowering, hubristic way, kind of pretty."[4] One local resident called it "the turd in the punchbowl of Madison Square,"[4] but architect Dan Kaplan is quoted on a Wall Street Journal weblog as saying that the building is an "elegant, thin stalk", and represents a continuation of a long-held vision of Manhattan. Kaplan does say, however, that the sliver building "turn[s] its back, a little bit, on the park".[8]
See also
- Madison Square
- 22nd Street (Manhattan)
- Flatiron District
- Met Life Tower
References
- Notes
- ^ "One Madison Park" on Skyscraperpage.com. Accessed: 2010-12-09
- ^ a b "One Madison Park Data Page" at SkyscraperPage.com
- ^ a b Barbanel, Josh. "The Butler Could Do It" New York Times (November 25, 2007)
- ^ a b c d Rubinstein, Dana "In the Shadow of the Boom", New York Observer (March 9, 2010)
- ^ One Madison Park website
- ^ Rubinstein, Dana (April 16, 2010). "One Madison Park to Receivership; Flood of Sales to Come?". The New York Observer. http://www.observer.com/2010/real-estate/hurray-sales-can-resume-one-madison-park-judge-appoints-receiver. Retrieved 2010-05-15.
- ^ a b Ouroussoff, Nicolai. "Near-Empty Tower Still Holds Hope" New York Times (June 28, 2010)
- ^ Troianovski, Anton, "Skyscraper Face-Off in Madison Square" on WSJ.com
External links
- Official website
- "One Madison Square" at Curbed.com
- "In the Shadow of the Boom" profile of the building's financial and legal problems on New York Observer
- Images on SkyscraperPage.com
- Image of the planned "companion" building on East 22nd Street designed by Rem Koolhaas
- "One Madison Park" building information
- "One Madison Park" on Architecture News Plus
- "CetraRuddy" on Architecture News Plus
Categories:- Residential buildings completed in 2010
- Buildings and structures in Manhattan
- Condominiums and housing cooperatives in New York
- Skyscrapers between 150 and 199 meters
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