One Madison

is on the left.|alt=One Madison, a tall, narrow black building with squarish projections is under construction. It stands to the right of the MetLife Tower, a similarly tall building with a pointed roof. , and the black New York Merchandise Mart are in the foreground.|alt=A view of several New York City buildings from the air, looking north from above approximately 20th Street. Although much of the area nearby is included in various historic districtssuch as the Ladies' Mile Historic District, Gramercy Park Historic District, and Madison Square North Historic Districtthe location of One Madison is not, enabling the building to be constructed "as of right" with the transfer of air rights from the shorter buildings that surround the site. Construction When the building was originally announced, it was to be 47 stories and called The Saya. The name was changed to One Madison Park around the time that construction began in 2006 and then to One Madison after it was taken over by the Related Companies. The building as constructed has 60 stories. By April 2010, the building had topped out but was still not complete, having run into financial difficulties. Sales of residential units had stopped, but the appointment of a receiver on April 15 allowed sales to start again. The building continued to be mired in financial and legal problems, including multiple lawsuits and allegations of fraud, and was forced into bankruptcy by some of its creditors in June 2010. At one point, a 22-story building designed by noted architect Rem Koolhaas was to be the building's "companion" on 22nd Street, but later plans called for an 11-story building designed by CetraRuddy, the firm that designed One Madison; although at the time construction began in January 2013, permits had reportedly been issued for a 6-story building, which will include the entrance lobby and two duplex apartments. Post-completion By 2013, ownership of the building had passed to a consortium of creditors, including the Related Companies, the CIM Group, and HFZ Capital Group, who completed construction and resumed sales that year. , seventy-five percent of the building's units had been sold. ==Architecture==

The building was designed by the architectural firm CetraRuddy. It features 360-degree views and contains 53 residential units, Structural features The building's first five stories contain service and commercial spaces on the ground floor, above which are mechanical spaces and the building's amenities. These five floors act as a base for the building's tower, which is partly cantilevered over an existing three-story building to the east. 's (left) 777 feet in 2017. The cross-section of One Madison's tower is 50 ft x 53 ft (15.25 m x 16.15 m), which makes it, at the height of 621 feet (189.3 m), one of the slenderest buildings in New York City; its height-to-width ratio is 12:1. To accommodate the architectural design of the building, which called for windows on all sides, lateral bracing that would normally be placed around the tower's perimeter is located in the center in a cruciform shape, creating internal shear walls in an optimal configuration. To cope with lateral winds and potential seismic forces, the shear walls were made with high-performance concrete. One Madison also utilizes a tuned liquid damping system on the roof consisting of three U-shaped reinforced concrete tanks full of water. These counter the building's lateral motion by about 3%. Rem Koolhaas designed the interiors of many of the condominium's originally planned amenities, which included a private screening room, an upscale restaurant run by chef Charlie Trotter, ==Residents==

, seen in September 2014. NFL quarterback Tom Brady and his supermodel wife Gisele Bündchen own one $14-million suite and rent out a similar apartment in One Madison. Peter Buffett, son of Warren Buffett, used to live in One Madison. Fredrik Eklund, a noted New York City realtor, author of The Sell, and a principal in the reality TV series Million Dollar Listing New York, used to rent at One Madison, but had moved out by 2016. News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch bought the building's triplex penthouse and another full-floor apartment below it for a total of $57.3 million in February 2014. The original asking price for the penthouse was $45 million, and was originally announced as including a butler with his own one-bedroom apartment on a lower floor. Prior to Related's takeover of the building, the penthouse was under contract for $32 million, but that deal never closed. == Critical reception ==

Nicolai Ouroussoff, the architecture critic for The New York Times, called One Madison Park "a dazzling addition to a street that includes two of the city’s most celebrated skyscrapers: Pierre LeBrun’s 1909 Metropolitan Life Tower, across the street, and Daniel Burnham's 1903 Flatiron Building, a half block west. It jolts the neighborhood into the present." Architect Gordon Gill, of the firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, say of the building that it was "Simply a unique and elegant solution derived without relying on excessive form making to create an 'identity' for itself." Since 2013, it has been part of the "Sky High & the Logic of Luxury" exhibition at the Skyscraper Museum in Lower Manhattan. ==References==