270 Park Avenue
Update
03/08/22
JP Morgan's Ambitious Midtown Supertall Begins to Climb
Over the past several months, general contractor, , has been hard at work, erecting the steel superstructure of 270 Park Avenue in East Midtown. The colossal, 70-story, tower project is being developed in-house by multinational investment bank, , to house their new corporate headquarters.
This new tower replaces the 707-foot tall, Union Carbide Building (now demolished), which housed the company's previous head office. With a planned height of feet, it will double the height of the old one.
Designed by , 270 Park will total over 2.5 million square feet and contain office space for approximately 15,000 employees. In comparison, the Union Carbide Building was only fit to hold 3,500.
At this stage, I-beam deliveries have been arriving at the site in a constant flow. With the complex structural framework more or less finished at the base of the building, the focus has shifted to the floors that will sit above it.
Designed with more traditional and uniform geometry, the floors atop the base should prove less time-consuming to construct, meaning that we may see a faster rate of superstructure progress as the build moves forward.
Amidst all the ongoing steelwork, not to mention the constant influx of equipment and workers, the inside of the structure is essentially still an open cavern. Nevertheless, this bare-bones state of progress serves to showcase the extreme level of thought that goes into the engineering process for a project of this size.
Taking up a full city block, the sheer scale of the project is hard to comprehend, even in this early stage of construction. With such a presence now, 270 Park Avenue will undoubtedly be the crown jewel of East Midtown when construction wraps up in 2024.
