Park Avenue Place
60 East 55th Street
New York, NY
- Studio from $685,000 to $735,000 updated 01/13/2012
- 1 Bedroom from $885,000 to $2,150,000 updated 01/24/2012
- 2 Bedrooms from $1,875,000 to $2,795,000 updated 01/25/2012
- 3 Bedrooms from $3,999,000 to $12,000,000 updated 09/07/2011
Overview
About Park Avenue Place, 60 East 55th Street
Some blocks in Manhattan just knock your socks off.
This short block between Madison and Park Avenues has four distinctive towers and this is the most exquisite of the lot.
It is a mixed-use tower that was designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox, one of the world's leading architects of commercial buildings. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill handled the interiors.
The building combines five stories of private club facilities, known as The Core Club, and has 76 condominium apartments including a duplex penthouse on the 44th and 45th floors with terraces.
It was one of the first residential designs to be undertaken by Kohn Pedersen Fox, which would follow it up in 2006 with its undulated glass fa?ade design by William Pedersen for an 11-story apartment building at 122 Greenwich Avenue.
Park Avenue Place, as 60 East 55th Street is known, was developed by Davis/RFR of which Aby Rosen was a principal. Mr. Rosen, who owns Lever House and the Seagram Building, both nearby Park Avenue Place, is a partner with Hines Interests in the residential project at 122 Greenwich Avenue.
Park Avenue Place looks a little like a high-tech, stainless-steel aircraft carrier, minus its superstructure, standing on one end, which is to say that it is very elegant and has a precision feel.
As such, it is a good neighbor to Heron Tower, the slightly smaller tower just to its east that is a pleasant, conservative, pin-strip office building that lends a calming effect to an otherwise "wild" block.
Across the street from the Heron Tower is Helmut Jahn's obelisk office building, known as Park Avenue Tower, that has four slanted towers, an open pyramid roof ornament, bulbous stringcourses, and a very large plaza across from the Heron Tower.
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