The New Yorker's Paul Goldberger discusses Jean Nouvel's façade designs.
The New Yorker's Paul Goldberger discusses Jean Nouvel's façade designs.
When you catch your first glimpse of 100 Eleventh Avenue, a new apartment tower in Chelsea designed by the French architect Jean Nouvel, its curving façade, an abstract arrangement of windows slanting in multiple directions, looks like a gimmick. The building clatters; it jangles like a bracelet. Beside the smooth, milky-white exterior of Frank Gehry’s I.A.C. Building, across Nineteenth Street, it seems nervous, and even the architect’s description of it, “a vision machine,” smacks of trying too hard. But Nouvel, one of the world’s most famous and prolific architects, is anything but insecure.
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