The skewed glass box tower coming to 59th Street is the first project in New York to be completely developed (not co-developed or financed) by a Chinese firm. Somewhat ironically, the developer goes by the name Euro Properties. The tower is designed by Singaporean architect Soo Chan—of Soori High Line fame—and while sales have yet to launch, asks in the condo tower will be "consistent with ultraluxury developments in the area."

Although Oosten takes its name from the Dutch word for East, it's being developed by Chinese firm Xinyuan Real Estate. News of the revived long-stalled development first came to light when Forbes Asia spotted marketing for condos at the full-block site on major Chinese real estate website SouFun.com, before even news of the development's revival had circulated nationally. The 215-condo development is designed by WASA studio with think! architecture and design, and will have Piet Boon-designed interiors. Sales launched in September from $710,000, and as of December the development was 25-percent sold.

Chinese company Fosun International Ltd. dished out $725 million in December 2013 for Chase Manhattan Plaza (now rebranded as 28 Liberty Street), with plans to redevelop the landmarked site. Fosun wants to add 175,000 square feet of retail to the building's base (including three floors underground) and replace the SOM-designed tower's black granite ground-level facade with glass storefronts. On May 6 the proposal went ahead of the LPC, who sent the developer and project architect SOM—tapped again—back to the drawing board.

Chinese private equity firm Kuafu Properties announced plans to bring a Chinese lantern-inspired condo and hotel tower to the Hudson Yards Special District, but after trying to axe co-developers Blackhouse Development and Siras Development, the tower's on the rocks. Before Kuafu went rogue (or perhaps it was Blackhouse and Siras), the tower was anticipated to rise 47 stories and have a 400-room hotel and 42 condos.

The Bank of China purchased the under-construction 28-story tower on the corner of 40th Street and Sixth Avenue for $600 million at the end of 2014 from developer Hines, who embarked on constructing the glassy tower with nary a tenant in place. The Bryan Park-facing building is very nearly complete—looks like Curbed will have new neighbors pretty soon.

The General Motors building on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 59th Street—you know, the thing behind the Apple Cube—is the most valuable individual tower in the country. The statistic is based off of its 2008 sale for $2.8 billion. Beijing-based developer Zhang Xin and her family bought a 20-percent stake in the building in 2013, the Journal reports.

China Vanke teamed up with Aby Rosen's RFR Holdings to resurrect a long-stalled development site at 610 Lexington Avenue. Now rebranded/re-addressed 100 East 53rd Street, the development duo tapped starchitect Norman Foster to design a slender 61-story condo tower with an angular facade. With 94 apartments, amenities include a gym with a 60-foot pool, a library lounge, and a media room. Sales are launching soon.

above will follow suit soon. In February, an arm of China-based Sunshine Insurance Group bought the hotel from Starwood for $230 million, which comes out to $2 million per room.

In addition to its stake in the GM Building, Soho China also shelled out $600 million to own a piece of Park Avenue Plaza. An SOM-designed tower with a green glass facade, it is very, very shiny.