30 Hudson Yards

The 30 Hudson Yards is a Contemporary skyscraper designed between 2011 and 2014 by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, and built between 2014 and 2019 in New York, NY.

Its precise street address is 500 West 33rd Street, New York, NY. You can also find it on the map here.

The 30 Hudson Yards has received multiple architecture awards for its architectural design since 2019. The following is a list of such prizes and awards:

• Structure Award 2022 Award of Excellence in 2022
• Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Awards in 2020

On the 100th floor, at a height of 340 meters, there is a triangular observation platform that extends out from the building. On the 101st floor, there is a bar and an event space.

An outdoor staircase at the top of the tower offers the attraction known as "City Climb at Edge," allowing visitors to ascend to the highest part of the building.

Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates was the architecture firm in charge of the architectural design.

That being said, architecture is a complex discipline involving many professionals from different fields, without whom this building would have not been possible. We will surely be leaving out a lot of names here, but here is a list of the people we do know also played their part in making the 30 Hudson Yards a reality:

• Thornton Tomasetti in charge of Structural Engineering
• Tishman Construction as the Main Contractor
• Heintges in charge of Facade Consultancy
• Jaros Baum & Bolles in charge of MEP Engineering
• Jaume Plensa as the collaborating Artist

The 30 Hudson Yards can be categorized as a Contemporary building.

The 30 Hudson Yards uses a trussed-frame structure made of steel columns and poured concrete over metal decking slabs.

A trussed-frame structure uses a combination of beams and columns to sustain the building's weight, and diagonal elements to provide stability against horizontal forces such as wind or seismic activity by triangulating the structure. The walls in this case are non-load bearing, which allows for more flexibility when distributing the interior spaces.

The building spans above a bustling rail yard, which includes two platforms bridges, 30 active railway tracks, three rail tunnels, and the newly constructed Gateway Tunnel. The columns and support structures of the tower are positioned between the railway lines, avoiding underground utilities, while the trusses holding up the south facade of the towers span across the tracks

From an aesthetic point of view, the facade features high-tech, blue-tinted glass panels.

The volume is articulated into two seamlessly connected volumes, with the cantilevered triangular observation deck on the 100th floor as the crowning design element, which gives the project its unique profile while also helping to maintain a sense of balance and harmony in the building's overall form .