851 Avenue of the Americas
PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS
- Location: 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.