The 432 Park Avenue is a Contemporary skyscraper designed in 2011 by Rafael Viñoly, in association with SLCE Architects, and built between 2011 and 2015 in New York, NY.
Its precise street address is 432 Park Avenue, New York, NY. You can also find it on the map here.
Rafael Viñoly was the architecture firm in charge of the architectural design, in association with SLCE Architects.
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 432 Park Avenue a reality:
The 432 Park Avenue can be categorized as a Contemporary building.
Contemporary style architecture builds on top of the principles of Modernism and Postmodernism, but incorporates other variables which might not have been that important in the past, but certainly are today, such as technology, sustainability, inclusivity, and others.
From a historical point of view, it is hard to categorize things from a not-so-distant time, and therefore we choose to categorize most buildings built after the year 2000 as "Contemporary". It is possible that as time goes by and we, as a society, gain perspective on the things happening today, we'll be able to look back and recategorize all these buildings into more concrete subsections, some of which might not even exist today.
The 432 Park Avenue reaches an architectural height of 1394ft (425m), with the last accesible floor being 1286ft (392m) off the gorund. It has a total of 88 floors, 85 above ground and 3 basements, served by 11 elevators.
Ever since opening its doors to the public in 2015, the 432 Park Avenue has mainly been used as Residential space.
Looking at the building from the outside and dividing its height at the technical floor levels, the six upper volumes house the residences, while the lower section is dedicated to exclusive amenities for residents, such as staff accommodations, conference rooms, meeting rooms, and screening rooms, as well as a fully equipped restaurant with access to a garden terrace, a health and spa center featuring a gym and swimming pool, independent storage spaces, wine cellars, and underground parking.
The 432 Park Avenue has a total of 104 residential units throughout its 85 floors. If you are interested in learning more about the residences and their availability, you can check the 432 Park Avenue's website.
The 432 Park Avenue uses a framed tube-in-tube structure , with reinforced concrete columns and beams.
A framed tube-in-tube structure uses a central core, known as inner tube, which usually holds stairs, lifts and installations, and a perimeter of columns around it, which form the exterior tube. The interior tube is tipically more massive (often made of reinforced concrete), and the exterior tube is "lighter" (made of steel or concrete columns). Both tubes are conencted via horizontal elements which make up the floors and also transmit any horizontal froces from the facade to the core.
The facade of the building is load bearing. This is a direct consequence of the integration of the exterior "tube" into the facade, something which most framed tube-in-tube buildings do in order to liberate the interior space from structural elements and achieve a more flexible interior.
So the facade of the builing is techinically load-bearing, yes, however, in between the load-bearing colums we find a window-wall facade system, which by itself would not be cosnidered load-bearing.
The structure is based on a square floor plan and a regular grid composed of large windows, each measuring 3x3 meters.
The uniform grid layout is interrupted by 6 double-height technical floors with no windows that expose the building’s core to the exterior elements. These interruptions play a role in redirecting wind pressures and ensuring the structural stability of this structure, with a remarkable slenderness ratio of 1:15.
From an aesthetic point of view, the facade features a regular pattern or 3x3 meters windows framed by a white concrete regular grid, which is also structural.
