Bloomberg's James S. Russell praises NMDA's condo project in NYC's High Line development.
"...only HL23, one of the smallest of the current artsy crop, channels the inner beauty of the High Line and puts it in elegant vertical form."
Images by Hayes Davidson
"Denari compares his design to a plant reaching for a shaft of sunlight from out of a crack in the sidewalk. The 13-story building rises out of a skinny, seemingly unbuildable 25-foot- wide slot of land. It unfurls in faceted planes of glass and metal, held in place by diagonal braces that look like sinews. The diminutive tower seems to wave gently, bending just a bit east over the old elevated railroad, while the south-facing side tilts back at the top."
Images by Hayes Davidson
Images by Hayes Davidson
9 Comments
That's beautiful. Like a flashback of the space age design, but at the same time more futuristic than Foster's.
Those are all render right?
Or are the condos actually already for sale.
right next to lindy roy? whoa, expensive block...
the second image looks real. what i like is it inverts the typological tall building, with the smalles floor being on the bottom and the penthuis being the largest.
my former employer, who went to school w/ ND is probably shi**ing his pants right now. bonus!
They must be renderings, the Highline itself isn't done yet.
Wake me up when it's built.
anyone else think the structural members are a bit 'too visible'?
765 that is what i thought...
But at least the middle render, looks photographic in quality.
Sameolddoc, personally i like the look.
...are those white diagonals structure or decoration? If the interior is column free, I'm with it.
They're structure. And yeah, I like them a lot, too.
Saw the big model of this at the MOCA fashion & architecture show, it's a beautiful thing.
Form follows function.
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