15 Hudson Yards
The tower at 15 Hudson Yards is an eighty-eight-story residential high-rise containing a mix of rental apartments and condominiums; a third of the units are designated as affordable housing. The building anchors the southeast corner of Hudson Yards, a twenty-eight-acre mixed-use development between Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen. Following decades of failed proposals to develop the air rights above the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s train maintenance and storage yard—including a stadium for New York’s unsuccessful 2012 Olympic Games bid—Related Companies devised a plan that would address the challenges of the site. First, to allow the train yard and its thirty active tracks to stay operational throughout construction, the buildings and its elevated deck are supported on caissons that opportunistically slip between the tracks where possible and are drilled down to bedrock. In addition, because the area had to be accessible to its future mixed-use tenants, the number 7 subway line was extended and the new Hudson Yards station was built.
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