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November 28, 2007
Bruce to build tallest building in Brooklyn, after all?
NY Post, A TALL ORDER IN B’KLYN
Preliminary renderings of another Ratner building - the proposed City Tech Tower on Downtown Brooklyn's Jay Street - feature a design by renowned Italian architect Renzo Piano showing a massive structure, which some online estimates yesterday put at 1,000 feet tall.
Sources familiar with the project say they expect it to top off at around 700 feet.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn’s Tallest? CUNY-Forest City Tower Could Be 65 Stories
The design of the proposed tower on the site of the Klitgord Auditorium on the New York City College of Technology (City Tech) campus, at Tillary and Jay streets, has been revealed and it appears to be between 65 and 70 stories tall. Currently, the Williamsburgh Savings Bank, at 512 feet, is Brooklyn’s tallest.
Reported over the holiday weekend first by Wired-NY.com and then by the 110 Livingston blog and Brownstoner.com, it is described as “stunningly tall” and Wired-NY, which counted the floors in the rendering, estimated that, with the spire, the building could top 1,000 feet and could be Brooklyn’s tallest.
Posted by lumi at November 28, 2007 4:49 AM