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Architecture Images- Recent One Madison Avenue |
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Daniel Libeskind |
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One Madison Avenue |
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On hold. Fantastic building. Wish it was built. |
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Blobitecture |
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Apartment Building |
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Initial designs show a glass-curtained tube with cutaways spiraling up and around the façade to reveal segments of terraced verdure, like cultivated patches on the side of a steep alpine slope. |
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New York’s Madison Square Park is the latest place to go
ogling some of the city’s newest skyscrapers. Cetra Rudy and OMA have each
designed new towers on the park. Now the area is to get a forward-looking
gleaming glass and green residential tower designed by Studio Libeskind,
with spiraling gardens in the sky. The dramatic 54-storey tower will sit
atop a 14-storey masonry structure that is an annex for the Metropolitan
Life building, making it the city’s tallest residential tower. The design of the building was kept under wraps until recently when it was made public on the Architects Newspaper Blog, which scanned the images to the web from Daniel Libeskind’s new monograph. While the design of the New York Tower is in the embryonic stage, Libeskind said the following today via statement: “The design features a series of spiraling gardens extending the green of Madison Square along the facade of the tower. The tower is set back from its neighbors—maintaining views and maximizing light and air.” "We look forward to a continuing dialogue when the proposal enters the public review process”, he added. Sharon McHugh US Correspondent worldarchitecturenews.com Green Dreams on Madison Square Six years after Daniel Libeskind alighted in the middle of the World Trade Center circus, bearing images of glass towers dripping with sky gardens, the architect has unveiled a proposal for his first New York building: a glass tower dripping with sky gardens. Libeskind’s One Madison Avenue would swoop up next to, and past, the 700-foot Met Life tower. One diagram in Libeskind’s new book, Counterpoint, suggests that the 54-story condo, hovering on columns over an existing building, could top out just shy of 937 feet (Rem Koolhaas’s proposed 23 East 22nd Street is a block away.) Initial designs show a glass-curtained tube with cutaways spiraling up and around the façade to reveal segments of terraced verdure, like cultivated patches on the side of a steep alpine slope. “We didn’t just fill up the tower,” the architect says. “We’ve taken space away [from the apartments] to create the gardens,” which are actually balconies tucked within the envelope. “It’s as if nature has come back into the city,” he says. The whole project has an air of fantasy about it, but the developer is betting that the current fiscal misery will end before the approvals process does. “The assumption is that by the time construction starts, we’re going to be looking at a different economy,” Lloyd Kaplan, an Elad spokesman, says. |
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