Wednesday 4 July 2018

WATCH: Jean Nouvel on fitting 53W53 into NYC’s skyline, architecture as art and more

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. “If you travel around the world you won’t know where you are because buildings […]



source https://therealdeal.com/2018/06/25/watch-jean-nouvel-on-fitting-53w53-into-new-yorks-skyline-architecture-as-art-and-more/#new_tab

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