Known for his work on The New York Times Building, the Whitney Museum, and the Morgan Library expansion, Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano has completed his first residential building in NYC at 565 Broome Street. The Soho tower has 115 residences, ranging from studios to four-bedroom condos. Uber’s Travis Kalanick and tennis star Novak Djokovic have already scooped up units in the building, where sales launched last September. — 6sqft
The top of this thing is a kludgy mess. Who parked the fucking spaceships up there?
There is a certain honesty about it that I like. It’s not pretending to be something that it’s not. But those rooftop mechanicals are pretty ugly (oxymoron intended), as is that cheesy bridge between the two rooftops.
That probably doesn’t bother Renzo as he likes the mechanical. At least it’s honest.
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Possibly the least-inspired Piano building I've seen.
Which makes me think: do the financial requirements of urban residential projects stifle the creativity of otherwise brilliant designers? This is far from the first dull residential tower from a Starchitect name I've seen pop up in NY.
My theory is that buyers are far more motivated by location, amenities, and FFE than the exterior design itself. Heck, even the interior design probably weighs in more heavily to the resident's experience.
Problem is you keep building these anonymous buildings and you eradicate the character of the location that attracts people in the first place.
That is true too. I guess developers wouldn't mind as much. If its a condo, the property is out of their hands by then. If its a rental, maybe rent is still paramount to renters.
Renzo's glass curtainwall is better looking than the awful, clunky one on Herzog & de Mueron's 56 Leonard.
The top of this thing is a kludgy mess. Who parked the fucking spaceships up there?
There is a certain honesty about it that I like. It’s not pretending to be something that it’s not. But those rooftop mechanicals are pretty ugly (oxymoron intended), as is that cheesy bridge between the two rooftops.
That probably doesn’t bother Renzo as he likes the mechanical. At least it’s honest.
Come on guys, this is at par with most corporate mediocre skyscrapers popping up around the globe. Just because its from Piano's office doesnt mean you need to fawn about it.
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