Reply With QuoteDunno why more developers don't aim for an iconic building. I think good architecture pays off, especially with residential buildings.
From the NY Post Today:
Nouvel riche
Things are looking up at the Jean Nouvel-designed building at 100 11th Ave. New buyers include management-consulting mogul Martin Shanker, who just paid around $2.2 million for an eighth-floor condo. The building is close to 70 percent sold and on steadier ground with a $47 million refinancing loan from Pembroke Capital Management.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/busines...#ixzz0tl5kz5vb
Dunno why more developers don't aim for an iconic building. I think good architecture pays off, especially with residential buildings.
Good point. From what I can see the current design-bid-build process as it is typically done here in the US is somewhat inefficient; with the result being very high costs (and long lead times) for anything but safe 'building standard' approaches in constructing new building. I think there are big changes coming to the industry involving new methodologies such as BIM and 'integrated building process management' that will make innovative architectural designs a more viable option for builders/owners/developers.Originally Posted by Tectonic
If you want to know more: start with a Google search on the acronym BIM - then start looking for other links from what comes up from that term.
today!
Nouvel wins.
Gehry Wins
NYers win- we have them both
A great pair -- each compliments the other and would be less if sitting on their own.
This area is amazing.
If I ever doubt the greatness of New York, or the progress here....I look at these two wonders, and the new Cooper Union. And maybe Beekman.
Jean Nouvel's West Chelsea Starchitecture Blinding the Neighbors?
September 2, 2010, by Joey
The Frenchman's 100 Eleventh Avenue is known as the "Vision Machine," but the building seems to be getting something in the eye of Shigeru Ban's Metal Shutter Houses, it's high-profile neighbor across 19th Street. As part of a series in which the blog visited a different building every day in August, A Daily Dose of Architecture happened upon the uber-fancy Metal Shutter Houses while most of the apartment owners had their titular shades drawn shut. We've never seen the building so closed off, but the reason might be those reflections bouncing off Nouvel's glassy menace across the way. Guess Shigeru knew how to fit in with the West Chelsea Starchitecture District better than Annabelle Selldorf and Frank Gehry, whose buildings didn't come equipped with the same level of sunblock. And as for those metal shutters...
A Daily Dose of Architecture is not really feeling them! "The effect of the shutters is not as elegant as the renderings," the blog writes, so let's go to the videotape. Paging 2007. 2007, are you there? Oh, here we are:
Did the bodega inspiration not come through?
31 in 31: #8 [A Daily Dose of Architecture]
Metal Shutter Houses coverage [Curbed]
100 Eleventh Avenue coverage [Curbed]
http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2010/0...hbors.php#more
There were definitely no blinding glares on Friday...
Can't praise this enough, even the 'blank wall' is great.
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