425 Park Avenue

New York, United States, North America

Completed · Commercial · Class A Office Tower · Continental · 2022

A 47-storey, full-block Class A office tower on Park Avenue — the first full-block office building on the avenue in over 50 years — with column-free floorplates. Notable for early-stage integration of its environmental services strategy with the architecture, including a floor-by-floor HVAC concept developed with the design team from competition stage.

Innovation highlights

• Floor-by-floor HVAC coupled to a water-cooled DX loop with heat recovery on both sides
• Waterside free cooling (economiser) integrated into the floor-by-floor arrangement
• Services concept and column-free architecture developed together from competition stage
• Per-floor zoning so conditioning tracks actual occupancy

Innovations in the catalogue

• Floor-by-Floor Water-Cooled DX with Dual Heat Recovery and Waterside Free Cooling

Client / Developer

L&L Holding Company

Architect

Foster + Partners

Engineer

Foster + Partners (concept design); WSP (detailed design)

Type

Class A Office Tower

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