35 Hudson Yards was designed by David Childs of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, which also engineered it. It is clad in limestone rather than glass, which is the decision that separates it from everything around it, and it stands on a platform built over working railway tracks rather than on ground.
The tower stacks several uses on floor plates of different sizes, and the changes between them are expressed as setbacks that turn as the building rises. High strength concrete kept the structure thin enough to make those transitions and to keep the load on the platform down. The setbacks leave terraces at the changes of plane.
For the apartments this means two things. Floor plates differ from one part of the tower to another, so a plan does not repeat up the building the way it would in a tower of constant section. And the residences that sit at a setback open onto terrace rather than glass, so the room has a door and an outdoor floor level to resolve where another would simply have a window.
Ceilings run to eleven feet with glazing the full height.
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Building facts
Built
2015
Floors
71
Residences
143
New York City Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output, version 26v1. Tax lot 1007027503.