After running into trouble with an earlier proposal, developers William Gottlieb Real Estate and Aurora Capital Associates got the approval to construct a futuristic wedge-shaped office tower, also known as the Solar Carve, designed by Chicago's Studio Gang. The 139,000-square-foot building topped out in April at 10 stories tall and will feature 40,000 square feet of retail a 10,000-square-foot shared roof deck, an 8,000-square-foot second floor terrace located right next to the High Line, and private outdoor space on eight floors. Completion is slated for March 2019.

Rafael Viñoly, the architect behind 432 Park Avenue, has designed a boutique office building for the erstwhile site of Prince Lumber. The nine-story building will cover 115,000 square feet, 20,000 of which will become a massive roastery for Starbucks, marking the Seattle-based brand’s largest outpost in the world. Construction on the building is supposed to wrap up this year, with the Starbucks soon to follow in 2018. Aurora Capital Associates and Vornado are the developers behind the project.

Bjarke Ingels Group and HFZ Capital’s twisty development at 76 Eleventh Avenue, dubbed The Eleventh, is making progress. The project will feature two towers that rise 300 and 400 feet. In addition to 240 condos that will go from $2.8 million up to a whopping $25 million, the development will have a 137-key luxury hotel and spa. HFZ will also team up with Friends of the High Line to collaborate on an open-air pedestrian promenade for the development, which will run adjacent to the elevated park, and a “Bridge Lounge” that will connect the two towers. The project is slated to open in 2019.

Related Companies is in the midst of creating Hudson Residences—a new condo project spread out between multiple sites along and near the High Line. Details are being kept under wraps, but Thomas Heatherwick has been confirmed as the architect of a dual-tower building within the project. Robert A.M. Stern is rumored as the architect on the building that will rise at 555 West 22nd Street.

The block of West 18th Street between the High Line and the IAC building is due to be transformed by Related Companies, which has more than a few neighborhood-altering buildings in the works in West Chelsea. This particular site will eventually be home to a mixed-use building with ground-floor retail, as well as two residential towers: one that will rise 22 stories, and another that will rise 10 stories.

A building that once belonged to the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation is going the condo route: plans have been filed for an 11-story building with nine residential units, and a little bit of commercial space. The site came with 27,692 buildable square feet, and the developer will be using all but 212 square feet of that, according to the permits. The architect of record is Cary Paik of Paik Architecture.

A single-story building that was formerly home to Anton Kern Gallery will give way to an 11-story, nine-condo building developed by DDG, the folks behind offbeat projects like the bluestone-clad 12 Warren and West Broadway’s chocolate factory-to-condo conversion Xoco 325. In keeping with the developer’s other projects, it wouldn’t be out of line to guess that the building’s design—yet to be unveiled—will be far from boring.

There isn’t much information around what’s to become of the eight story building at 541 West 21st Street but rumor has it that the property is being marketed for a luxury office conversion and was purchased by real estate investor Norman Rappaport in 2016.

The Albanese Organization originally planned to convert a five-story warehouse into a 10-story office building but has now decided to go with an 11-story tower, designed by COOKFOX Architects, at the corner of West 22nd Street and the High Line. The latest renderings revealed for the project show that the completed building will have plenty of outdoor space that overlooks the elevated park.

After purchasing the lot at 188 Eleventh Avenue for $10 million in 2012, developer Jonathan Leitersdorf submitted plans for a 19-story tower with ten full-floor apartments, along with one five-floor penthouse (!!!) that will be occupied by Leitersdorf himself. The plan also calls for the rehabilitation of the adjacent, four-story Chelsea Highline Hotel, which will be converted into 19 permanently affordable apartments.

It’s been nearly three years since The Fitzroy, the green terracotta and copper condo of Hollywood set designers-turned-architects and interiors gurus Roman & Williams, hit the market from $5.2 million. Last June, the ten-story condo building topped out and facade installation is nearing completion. There will be just 14 condos ranging in size from two- to five-bedrooms and sales for some of the residences and the building is expected to debut sometime this year. CORE is handling sales and marketing.

The gas station-replacing condo at 239 Tenth Avenue, known as The Getty, from developer Victor Group has been in the works for a few years now. The 12-story condo building, which is located at at the corner of West 24th Street and Tenth Avenue, has just six apartments, with prices reportedly starting at $16 million. One of those, a three-story penthouse, recently sold for $59 million. The Modlin Group and Douglas Elliman are jointly handling sales and marketing at the development.

The condo coming to 220 Eleventh Avenue was one of the last designs that Zaha Hadid personally worked on before her untimely death in 2016. Although the design has yet to be revealed, it will take cues from Hadid’s other work and have “signature loft-like condominium residences” as well as space for a yet-to-be-determined cultural institution that developer Moinian Group hopes will become a “hub” for neighborhood activity. A teaser site was revealed in 2017 though other details remain under wraps.

Brazilian architect Isay Weinfeld makes his New York City debut with Jardim, a two-building condo that quietly launched sales in 2016. Both of the 11-story buildings that make up the High Line-adjacent development topped out toward the latter part of 2017 and there is a shared central courtyard that connects the two towers. There are 36 condos start at just under $2 million and are asking up to $7.55 million and construction on the Centaur Properties and Greyscale Development Group-developed condo is expected to wrap sometime this year.

Soo K. Chan's second High Line-hugging building, dubbed Soori High Line, has been in the works for quite some time: Sales originally launched back in 2014, but a full roll-out of its 31 units (including a gorgeous $22.5 million penthouse) was held until the building was closer to being completed. Nearly half of the Japanese-inspired apartments come with private pools and some of the units have already reappeared on the market.

The lesser-known sister project to Soori High Line, rising at 515 West 29th Street, is also designed by architect Soo K. Chan and, as the Times put it in a 2014 profile, “will be rippled like the surface of a sea.” Sales for this project launched in March 2018, with prices starting at $4.3 million. There are just 15 apartments—five of which are penthouses—and building amenities will include a roof deck with a kitchen, a 24-hour attended lobby, a gym, and extra storage. The condo, which is now being stylized as Five One Five, is being developed by Forum Absolute Capital Partners, while CORE is handling sales and marketing.