Lifting a Skyscraper: Foster + Partners Recasts NYC Corporate Tower for a Zero-Carbon Future

Foster + Partners redefines JPMorganChase’s new 60-storey HQ in New York through structural invention and zero-carbon intelligence. 270 Park Avenue marks a pivotal shift in how tall workplace buildings negotiate ground, carbon and comfort. Foster + Partners won the commission in 2018 using a structural strategy instead of a formal gesture. The brief demanded a 2.5-million-sq-ft headquarters for 10,000 people on a tightly constrained transit-loaded block — without erasing public realm. The answer lay in lifting the mass 80 feet off the ground! The design approach uses a fan-column and triangular bracing system that facilitates the skyscraper to “perch” on […]