Famed architect
Bjarke Ingels has been tight lipped about a project his team has been working on for
New York City and we're delighted to report that it was finally unveiled today! The
West 57th residential tower is an evolutionary growth from
BIG’s other
residential projects in Copenhagen, only at the scale of New York’s famed skyline. It brings with it a huge south-west facing slope, with protected green space making up the heart of the project.
Mr. Ingels has dropped a few hints about his project unveiling in New York – perhaps the biggest was opening an office and moving to the city. The tower is a clear hybrid of the northern European model of airy courtyards and sun loving facades with New York’s density and celebration of scale. Each apartment will get a balcony, many overlooking the adjacent Hudson River, and the complex as a whole will have a public transition green space not dissimilar to the 8 Tallet project that W57 emulates.
From the streets, the building appears as a richly detailed wall of angled windows and from the riverside softens the cities skyline. Amazingly the project shares the similar quality of transitioning an industrial section of a city to the residential with their ski slope/waste incinerator, as the apartment complex sits next to a largely defunct steam plant and garbage facility.
+ Bjarke Ingels Group W57
+ Past architecture stories about BIG on Inhabitat
The New World Order is the same as the Old World Order. The only difference is in the materials. Everything else including the surfs and the slaves are the same.
Outstanding share it is actually. My father has been searching for this tips.
bjarke ingels is the most exciting designer working today.
the building’s form is not an imposition of the architect’s ego on the city’s citizens. it emerges from sound principles of design; urban, climate, eco, historic, humanist.
and what is the result; a new idea of what a building can be
@syke
“Everything else including the surfs and the slaves are the same.”
How about the smurfs?
gorgeous.
I think it’s a beautiful building! I wonder how much those apartments will cost?!
I’m not easily impressed. . . but that’s ipmressing me!
YMMD with that asenwr! TX
Im not wohtry to be in the same forum. ROTFL