page_title: 55 Hudson Yards
section_title: Design changes
hierarchical_section_title: 55 Hudson Yards / 55 Hudson Yards plan / Design changes
caption_attribution_description: English: Construction progress in September 2017
context_page_description: 55 Hudson Yards is a skyscraper in Hudson Yards, Manhattan, New York City, just outside the Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project. It and 50 Hudson Yards will add a combined 4 million square feet of space to the Hudson Yards project, even though the two buildings are located outside the redevelopment site itself.
  Formerly, the area was the planned site of the now-canceled World Product Center. Both 55 Hudson Yards and the never-built World Product Center were planned to be located on the site of Copacabana, which was at the site between 2001 and January 20, 2007. Located right above the 34th Street subway entrance on the Hudson Park and Boulevard, 55 Hudson Yards was also formerly the site of a FedEx World Service Center building. 55 Hudson Yards was completed by early 2019, with the first tenants occupying the building by April.
context_section_description: 55 Hudson Yards was originally conceived as a 1.75-million-square-foot (163,000 m²), 877-foot-tall (267 m) building with 56 stories at 550-570 West 34th Street. It was expected to keep the latticed glass facade and a curved roof, as well as many of the old design plans of the World Product Center because Extell was designing One Hudson Yards. However, in late 2013, a design change was made that downsized the building to 1.3 million square feet (120,000 m²). Also, the building would have had a modified beige façade, as well as a 710-foot (220 m) flat roof. The building sits on an area bounded by 11th Avenue, Hudson Park and Boulevard, and 33rd and 34th Streets. The lowest ten floors span 44,000 square feet (4,100 m²) each while the floors in the stories above each measure 28,000 square feet (2,600 m²).
  Early projections placed the building as having either 47 or 50 floors, but final plans amounted to 51 stories. (the top floor is a mechanical floor, with office space occupying the fifty floors below it).
  In May 2014, renderings for the building changed for the second time. The building's third plan depicted a facade with a mostly metallic overlay and a base larger than the rest of the building. However, the square footage and height remained the same as in the second plan. The building's facade was based on the cast iron facades of buildings in SoHo.
caption: Construction progress in September 2017
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