Archinect - News2024-05-06T08:39:19-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/118886896/helmut-jahn-chats-about-his-latest-nyc-tower-50-west
Helmut Jahn chats about his latest NYC tower, 50 West Alexander Walter2015-01-21T13:24:00-05:00>2015-01-21T13:24:41-05:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/lj/ljau6sk63qa8yon2.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The idea is always that a building like this in a particular light merges with the sky. The building is on a very small site, and has a very small footprint. There was a requirement from a planning point of view, which we fully supported and were actually happy about, that we had to provide a plaza on the ground floor. And that’s actually why the building toward the base, it pulls in its belly and it slopes so that the urban space is adequate and a required size.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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