Jean Nouvel’s 53 West 53 supertall in New York City nears completion

2020-04-23T20:58:00-04:00

As work on the 1,050-foot-tall 53 West 53 tower designed by Ateliers Jean Nouvel in New York City moves toward completion, crews have made progress installing the multicolored aluminum panel cladding that wraps the tower’s stacked pinnacles.

The 53-story tower is attached to the Museum of Modern Art—“Purchasers will receive title to a special Benefactor MoMA membership, affording many substantial museum benefits and privileges,” a press release reads—and features 145 luxury residences.

Interior view of the building’s shared swimming pool. Photo courtesy of Hayes Davidson.

Designed with expressed diagrid structural elements and a sharply tapered form, the tower offers a collection of condominiums ranging in configuration from one to five-bedrooms with the largest units taking up an entire floor of the tower and a series of duplex penthouses capping the building. The penthouse units, according to marketing materials, are accessed via private elevator bays.

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Jean Nouvel’s 53 West 53 supertall in New York City nears completion