What new skyscrapers will appear in New York in 2022

Although the past year has been volatile, real estate plans have grown steadily. Contractors and builders continued to push projects to change skylines, neighborhoods and cities, reports Curbed.

Some of the buildings listed below are still under construction. But many are already opening their doors, and all of them one way or another debut in 2022. The success of at least some now seems a foregone conclusion. Wealthy residents, it's safe to say, still want to live in New York. True, JP Morgan's super-tall office tower at 270 Park Avenue feels a lot less confident.

Will residents ever flood Midtown again on weekday mornings? Will corporate tenants decide to take smaller areas in order to pay for them cheaper? Will it be a few years late for the East Side Access that the passengers for whom it was designed have dreamed of for decades? Large construction projects often seem to be a kind of guessing at the needs and desires of the city for years to come. But these designs, developed in a world leading up to the pandemic, will emerge in an environment that their developers and designers never expected.

9 DeKalb / Brooklyn Tower

At 325 meters high, this building is a collaboration between JDS and SHoP Architects. Now it is the tallest and most aesthetic rarity among Brooklyn's nondescript glass skyscrapers. (11 Hoyt by Studio Gang is beautiful, but at 188 meters it is tiny compared to DeKalb.) The building, erected this fall, has an interesting feature. It contains both rented premises and apartments in a condominium. (Sales start in 2022.)

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The project also includes the 1908 Dime Savings bank, a landmark nearby whose airspace rights it used to tower, and whose domed roof would hold the project's pool. Tallest Tower - Temporary status in New York City, especially in an area such as downtown Brooklyn... It is ripe for further skyscraper construction, but the tower's design elements will remain distinctive.

Bankside, Mott Haven

Multifunctional megacomplex Brookfield in the South Bronx. An unusual project for an area that does not see many new large market-level complexes. Designed by Hill West Architects, a New York City-based firm, the nearly billion dollar project will feature seven towers with 1350 apartments, 30% of which will be affordable. There will be retail space and public facilities. While this price is not entirely market-based, it is the biggest bet the developer has made on the South Bronx in decades. The project, for the first time in a century, will open access to the Mott Haven waterfront with a public park and esplanade.

Skyline Tower and Sven, LIC

In the second half of 2021, construction was completed on the first and second tallest towers in Long Island City. The Skyline Tower, a condominium and tallest building in the area (237 meters), is the simpler of the two skyscrapers. It was designed by Hill West Architects and built by United Construction & Development, FSA Capital and Risland US.

Sven, the second tallest tower (232 meters) designed by Durst, was designed by Handel Architects and the interiors by Annabel Seldorf. With a 30% rental price, the building has a curved exterior and is the first residential project in New York to use View Glass. This glass allows residents to control the shade of their windows through an app. Long Island City's skyline is one of the most dynamic, even though the area's predominantly residential nature (and the sheer number of new developments) makes it easy to forget about it.

East side access

Billions of dollars over budget and decades of delay, East Side Access, one of the largest transportation infrastructure projects in the United States, may be completed this year. The project, first proposed in the 1960s, will extend the Long Island Railroad to a terminal below Grand Central Station. Once trains start arriving at the new terminal, nearly 162 people a day will get to work faster.

David Geffen Hall

It is unheard of for a major construction project to be completed two years ahead of schedule. The $ 550 million redevelopment of David Geffen Hall, the New York Philharmonic's Lincoln Center building, is due to open in the fall of 2022, two years earlier. Due to interruptions, the project did not require phased completion (as originally planned). Music, if all goes well, will sound better too.

2551 Broadway, Upper West Side

Another very common Extell tower in the sea of ​​looming completely ordinary Extell towers. After building two controversial towers - 38-story Ariel East and 32-story Ariel West - on Broadway near 99th Street in the mid-50s, Gary Barnett continued to build glass towers one after the other on the Upper West Side. Barnett has arguably done more to transform the area than anyone else in recent years. Even if the results are unremarkable and the neighbors are not very happy with it. He appears to have canceled nearly all of his remaining lawsuits to continue construction on 66 West 236th, which at XNUMX meters will be the tallest building on the Upper West Side.

Cornell Technology Campus, Roosevelt Island

The university has completed the construction of the Verizon Tech Alumni Hotel and Executive Education Center. These are the fourth and fifth buildings to open on the Cornell Institute of Technology campus. The master plan, developed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, will not be fully implemented until 2043. But these two buildings, designed by Snøhetta, mark the end of its first phase. Since opening in 2017, the campus has acquired the tranquil vibe befitting the sleepy Roosevelt Island. But things are likely to get a little more lively with its first hotel and resumption of travel.

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St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, World Trade Center

The Orthodox Church is the first structure on the site that is not a shopping center, memorial or office towers. After many years of financial difficulties and delays that can be called Byzantine, the building was almost completed. Hotel St. Nicholas, designed by Santiago Calatrava, is made of white marble and will open this spring. Right behind it, at the beginning of 2023, the Perelman Arts Center will appear. This is a $ 500 million dance, theater and music venue designed by Joshua Ramus' Rex firm.

130 William Street, Financial District

David Adjay's first residential tower in New York, although not the first in the city. He previously designed an affordable housing project in Harlem. 130 William is not inherently exclusive. 243-meter high condominium tower from Lightstone Group. It has three-bedroom apartments at an average price of $ 3 million. The penthouses are priced at $ 20 million. But Ajay's design - a brick building that looks fresh but also exudes the spirit of old New York - is. The city needs more alternatives to glass towers and the neoclassicism of Robert A.M. Stern. If Don Peebles' Affirmation Tower is built, Ajay may soon be working on another project that will double 130 William.

Greenpoint landing

The last two of the four Brookfield and Park Tower Group-designed residential towers, designed by OMA, will open along the Greenpoint waterfront this spring. The tower houses 2000 of the 5500 apartments on a 22 acre (8,9 ha) plot. All of this adds up to some affordable housing, large esplanades, and Greenpoint's less-dated ambience - low-rise, low-key and a bit unkempt. Some rescued naval units found at this location will be incorporated into the open space.

270 Park Avenue

JP Morgan Chase's new super-high headquarters in Midtown East. The largest voluntary destruction of the building in history took place here, but it is beginning to be erected. While not expected to open until 2024, the building's burgeoning structure is either a sunk-cost chase or a sign of confidence in the high end of the office market - and thus the relevance of Midtown Manhattan.