851 Avenue of the Americas 
-New York, NY

851 Avenue of the Americas -

New York, NY


Architect: Perkins Eastman
Area: 620,000 Sq.Ft.
Photo: Perkins Eastman
Completion Date: 2010

Awards
  • 2011 ACEC New York Engineering Excellence Award–Diamond
  • 2011 CIB of New York Roger H. Corbetta Awards–Award of Merit
  • Challenges for this residential, hotel, and retail building included designing four garage levels, the lowest at the elevation of the adjacent existing subway tunnel roof. To eliminate influence on the existing tunnel, Severud Associates set back the lowest garage level and supported the exterior foundation wall—only two feet from the tunnel—on floor-high, post-tensioned cantilevers.