Foster + Partners has completed 50 Hudson Yards in New York City as part of the Hudson Yards major development in Midtown Manhattan.
The 981-foot-tall (299 meters) skyscraper contains three million square feet (278,709 square meters) of office space, including offices for tech company Meta (formerly Facebook) and investment company BlackRock.
The 58-story skyscraper takes up a full city block on the east side of the complex. It has a stepped envelope and a symmetrical façade with floor-to-ceiling glass. Structural elements at the podium and detailing the façade are clad in Viscount white stone. Foster + Partners has stated that the building makes use of conventional, double-decker, and twin elevators for the first time in a New York City commercial office building. The elevator strategy present in the core helped to open up floor plates on the perimeter of the envelope.
“Our project is a response to the site within Hudson Yards, but its geometry also respects the wider context of the New York street grid,” said Foster + Partners founder Norman Foster.
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