Construction has officially completed at 520 Fifth Avenue, finishing Rabina's 88-story, 1,002-foot Kohn Pedersen Fox-designed supertall that now holds down the northwest corner of Fifth Avenue and West 43rd Street, one block north of Bryant Park.
The last of the terracotta panels wrapping the podium went up at the start of August, with the remaining finishing work set to run out the summer.
That terracotta is doing more than covering the frame. Kohn Pedersen Fox drew the skin from Fifth Avenue's prewar masonry towers, running vertical ribs up the shaft and framing the base in arched openings that catch the light differently as the day moves. Against the glass around it, the tower reads warm, a return to the material that built the avenue a century ago.
Twenty-five floors of boutique office fill the lower half of the mixed-use tower, with ground-floor retail meeting the sidewalk along Fifth Avenue.
The 100 residences, running from one to four bedrooms with interiors by Charles & Co, do not begin until the 42nd floor. That entry point is the whole point of the plan: rather than stacking a deep deck of small units from the base, the tower spends its first 41 floors on office, retail, and club space, putting every home above its neighbors' rooflines and saving the views for residents.
Moss, the private members club, occupies its own territory in the building with a separate entrance on West 43rd Street. Inside, the club runs from a spa with plunge pools and lounges to a full fitness floor, yoga studio, boxing ring, golf simulators, a pickleball court, a podcast studio, and its own bar and dining room.
Residents get an amenity floor of their own at the very top. The Penthouse 88 crowns the tower with a Lounge, Dining Room, Library, and glass-walled Solarium, wrapping river-to-river views around the building's highest floor.
The address puts all of it on Midtown's civic spine. Bryant Park and the New York Public Library sit one block south, Grand Central is a short walk east, and Rockefeller Center runs ten blocks up the avenue. Few corners in Manhattan carry that much within a five-minute radius.
The completion also lands as Midtown builds upward on every side. 175 Park Avenue is beginning to take shape over Grand Central, The Torch is rising to the west, and Citadel's $6 billion Park Avenue supertall is officially moving forward.