From William Zeckendorf’s work with I.M. Pei and Minoru Yamaski in the 1960s and ’70s to his grandsons’ projects with the likes KPF and, most notably, Robert A.M. Stern, who created both the brand new 15 Central Park West and the newly renovated 18 Gramercy Park South, the Zeckendorfs have a thing for high design. — New York Observer
Foster + Partners has just designed its second apartment tower in North America, and first in the U.S., for Zeckendorf Development. They are the same developer who worked with Robert A.M. Stern on 15 Central Park West, considered the best-selling condo building of all time. Can Lord Norman and his sleek 44-story tower top that?
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Maybe it's just a bad rendering, but I'm having difficulty understanding how this constitutes "high design."
It's not high design, it's just marketing.
Ah, finally an end to wondering what it would be like to live in the HSBC Hong Kong bank building.
this bland monstrosity hardly deserves to be even referenced in the same sentence as the HSBC bank in hong kong....
Hard to believe these two buildings come from the same hand. I guess times are hard even for Mr. Foster cause that apartment building looks like developer schlock from the 1970's.
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