Posted Dec 8, 2007, 1:20 PM
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Originally Posted by NYguy
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6fb7bf8c-a289-11dc-81c4-0000779fd2ac.html
A dreaming spire for Manhattan
By Edwin Heathcote
December 4 2007
The proposal, at 53 W. 53rd St, commissioned by real estate firm Hines, comprises 75 storeys of accommodation and, at 350m, pierces the skyline at a height between the Empire State and Chrysler Buildings. It will embrace 5,000 square metres of extra accommodation for MoMA, which will expand into its lower floors, above retail provision, while the upper floors will house a seven-star hotel sharing services with the 120 or so (extremely) top-end condominiums above.
Nouvel runs through a presentation on his laptop, showing proposals for the night-time lighting of the building (“it will make it look like it has blood running through the veins of the structure,” he grins), the extraordinary interiors (“the structure becomes the space, we don’t need interior decorators here,” he grins again) and renderings of the pool and the gallery.
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I imagine it would look something like 3 WTC when lit...
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