TSX Broadway / Tempo by Hilton New York Times Square (New York City, New York)

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470-foot, 46-story modernist hotel originally completed in 1990 as the Embassy Suites Times Square. Designed by Fox & Fowle, the building utilized bridge-like engineering technology to wrap around and over the existing Palace Theater on Times Square. The hotel sits above the landmark on a hybrid composite steel and concrete bridge-like structure consisting of cross trusses and two 130-foot-long composite trusses. Only four columns, two on either side of the theater, come down to the ground to support the structure.

The hotel later became a DoubleTree Suites by Hilton, the only all-suite hotel on Broadway in Times Square. The tower sits on a multi-story podium that mostly enclosed the Palace Theatre, except for along the north side on 47th Street. The podium was almost completely covered in dynamic signage, and the tower had a rounded northwest corner, and was clad in dark-green pre-cast panels.

In 2019, the existing structure was gutted, the first step in an almost complete rebuild. Nearly 75 percent of the building was razed to create a new mixed-use property dubbed TSX Broadway. Designed by PBDW Architects, Mancini Duffy, and Perkins Eastman, the program calls for 75,000 square feet of retail space spanning the first ten stories, a 4,000-square-foot performance venue with Times Square’s only permanent outdoor stage cantilevering out above the sidewalks along Seventh Avenue, 30,000 square feet of dining space, and a 669-key hotel above it all. Meanwhile an LED display on the southern elevation is displayed and flashes various advertisements.

In the preserved bottom quarter of the structure the Palace Theater is lifted 30 feet higher from its current position to the new 6th floor to make room for new retail space below. The 3rd floor has a permanent public outdoor platform that cantilevers over the sidewalk along 7th Avenue 30 feet in the air, across from the TKTS red stairs. It is suspended among a massive 18,000-square-foot LED screen that wraps around the corner of the tower’s 10-story podium. An outdoor terrace dedicated to food and beverage space and measuring 10,000 square feet is situated above the LED signage. The new tower portion retains the curved corner and is clad in a glass curtain wall.

The 661-room hotel tower reopened in August 2023 as the Tempo by Hilton New York Times Square

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