The announcement early last year that Ian Schrager was building 40 Bond, a condominium project in downtown Manhattan, with the Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron set the design world abuzz. Well, it’s done now, and unlike so many apartment projects that look good on paper but not in reality, 40 Bond doesn’t disappoint. NYT Sunday Magazine
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I always liked their choices of facade,.
But this project is a bit much !
I still like it... in fact I like it even more!.. those glass mullions are amazing.. definitely more art than architecture (at least for those who think of arch more of a 'social science' than an 'artistic science'), but amazing nonetheless
Salvador Dalí would have loved to buy one of these apartments.. (well, I'd like one too)
wow. kitchen cabs stop a foot short of glass. a detail that always rubs me the wrong way. looks like photographer went crazy on cnc machining. i mean the stuff is everywhere and over and over. very arabesque.
i guess some other magazine bought the rights to feature the interior shots of the units. it happens all the time. and the poor (!) public keeps waiting their tounges out for more details. clap hands boys, clap hands.
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usually an admirer of all things h&dm, this time i'm obviously missing the point. looks like lots of un- or clumsily-resolved pattern-making and messing around with expensive materials. humph.
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