JPMorgan Chase is hitching its barnacle to in-office work with plans for a 60-story global headquarters at 270 Park Avenue in Midtown East. Its wedding cake shape references classic New York tall buildings, while the glossy diagrid facade screams boom-and-bust 1980s.
While the project was first announced in 2018, well before COVID, renderings and additional information about the design were just released today. Foster + Partners is collaborating with Vishaan Chakrabarti’s Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU) on the project. Tishman Speyer is the developer.
270 Park Avenue is billed as New York City’s largest all-electric skyscraper. (dbox/Foster + Partners)
The bank’s HQ replaces
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