Lifting a giant off the street
The greenest supertall in the skyline
The ghost of Union Carbide
Norman Foster's high tech lineage
marcus Drag steel beams to discover how Norman Foster engineered New York's greenest skyscraper.
Recycling a giant: Dismantling the 52-story Union Carbide Building salvaged enough steel to build several new skyscrapers, keeping thousands of tons of metal out of landfills.
The act or process of tearing down or destroying a building or other structure. The 2021 dismantling of the Union Carbide Building was the tallest voluntary building demolition in history.
What major city planning initiative enabled the construction of the new 270 Park Avenue?
What did JPMorgan Chase pay forty-one million dollars into as a requirement for building their new supertall?
How did workers demolish the 52-story Union Carbide Building in the middle of dense Manhattan?
What luxury residential hotel occupied the 270 Park Avenue block before the 1960 Union Carbide Building was built?
What percentage of materials from the demolished Union Carbide Building was recycled or salvaged?