HUDSON YARDS — Hanging gardens and climbing terraces will feature prominently on a 65-story glass tower coming to the Hudson Yards.
Developer Tishman Speyer on Monday released renderings of The Spiral, a 2.85-million-square-foot tower to be located at 66 Hudson Boulevard, between the High Line and Hudson Boulevard Park.
Each floor of the 1,005-foot-tall high-rise will have an outdoor landscaped terrace. From a distance, the terraces will appear to spiral around the building from top to bottom, creating a “unique, continuous green pathway,” Tishman Speyer said in a release.
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“The Spiral combines the classic Ziggurat silhouette of the premodern skyscraper with the slender proportions and efficient layouts of the modern high-rise,” Bjarke Ingels, founding partner at design firm BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, said in a statement.
“The string of terraces wrapping around the building expand the daily life of the tenants to the outside light and air,” he added.
The building will extend from West 34th Street to 35th street, with an entrance on Hudson Boulevard East, said Tishman Speyer, which acquired the development site in 2014.
The building's six-story base will house about 27,000-square-feet of space for retailers, as well as a “spacious amenity terrace,” the developer added.
