The architect behind 53 West 53rd wanted the tower to be synonymous with New York City, to be a building that couldn’t easily be slipped into another skyline.
“A worldwide catastrophe today is the number of buildings that are parachuted because they were preconceived. Offices, housing, shopping malls all look the same,” Jean Nouvel told The Real Deal, translated from French.
— The Real Deal
Mini video interview with 53W53 'MoMA Tower' architect Jean Nouvel, produced by The Real Deal.
53W53: Jean Nouvel's "New York" Building. Video via The Real Deal on YouTube.
The 1,050-foot luxury tower topped out a few days ago and ranks now—along with Renzo Piano/FXFOWLE's New York Times Building and the iconic 1930 Chrysler Building—as NYC’s sixth tallest building.
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really?
this tower might as well stand in chicago, london, or shenzhen, and it still wouldn't look out of place.
at this scale, it's a bit harder to pull off good critical regionalism.
it's not really hard. Do a building that looks like this:
or this:
or:
Or:
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