Steps from the Empire State Building, Bjarke Ingels Group has designed a soaring office skyscraper for HFZ Capital Group on the site of the old Bancroft Building in Midtown Manhattan. Original plans for a Moshe Safdie-designed residential tower were abandoned, and new renderings of the current office scheme dubbed 29th and 5th have been unearthed by New York YIMBY.

29th and 5th, image by Bjarke Ingels Group via New York YIMBY

To be certified according to LEED performance standards, the highrise is described as a 168-metre-tall tower containing 300,000 square feet of space under Department of Buildings filings. But according to YIMBY, the renderings portray a tower with a much higher apex and a much larger footprint.

29th and 5th, image by Bjarke Ingels Group via New York YIMBY

Architecturally, the building will be mostly clad in floor-to-ceiling glass, with a spine of terraces stretching up the eastern elevation servicing each floor. Additional landscaping would be provided at ground-level in the form of garden islands that double as seating spaces.

Terraces snake up the east side of the tower, image by Bjarke Ingels Group via New York YIMBY

29th and 5th joins other BIG-designed New York projects The Spiral and The Eleventh, as well as the completed VIΛ 57 West.

Ground-level landscaping, image by Bjarke Ingels Group via New York YIMBY

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