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Bjarke Ingels West 57Famed architect <a href="http://inhabitat.com/index.php?s=bjarke+ingels">Bjarke Ingels</a> has been tight lipped about a project his team has been working on for<a href="http://inhabitat.com/newyorkcity/"> New York City</a> and we're delighted to report that it was finally unveiled today! The <a href="http://www.big.dk/projects/w57/">West 57th</a> residential tower is an evolutionary growth from <a href="http://inhabitat.com/index.php?s=bjarke+ingels">BIG</a>’s other <a href="http://inhabitat.com/cascading-green-roofed-mountain-dwellings-by-big/">residential projects</a> 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.1
West 57 BIGThe building looks like a pyramid from the side but is actually more like a sliced block.2
West 57 BIGMr. Ingel has dropped a few hints about his project unveiling in New York - perhaps the biggest was opening an office and moving to the city.3
West 57 BIGThe 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.4
West 57 BIGEach apartment will get a balcony, many overlooking the adjacent Hudson River, and the complex as a whole will have public transition green space not dissimilar to the<a href="http://inhabitat.com/8-tallet-green-roofed-apartment-complex-opens-in-denmark/"> 8 Tallet</a> project that W57 emulates.5
West 57 BIGFrom the streets, the building appears as a richly detailed wall of angled windows and from the riverside softens the cities skyline6
West 57 BIGAmazingly the project shares the similar quality of transitioning an industrial section of a city to the residential with the <a href="http://inhabitat.com/big-unveils-a-waste-incinerator-ski-slope-for-copenhagen/">this ski slope/waste incinerator</a>, as the apartment complex sits next to a largely defunct steam plant and <a href="http://inhabitat.com/skycraper-farm-recycles-garbage-into-edible-crops/">garbage facility</a>.7
