100 11th Ave: Vision Machine - by Jean Nouvel

**lofter1** · June 9th, 2007, 02:22 PM

These two different views seem like two entirely different buildings:

From the Northwest by day ...

From the Southwest by night:

Nice to see all these images side by side ...

These shades are just plain bizarre ...

**ZippyTheChimp** · June 9th, 2007, 03:01 PM

Originally Posted by zarzapan

hanging scrims!"

LOL.

They should hire you to write the marketing brochure.

I think we're going to argue about this building until it reveals itself - like IAC.

**zarzapan** · June 9th, 2007, 03:03 PM

Yeah, the different perspective renderings help to explain how the effect will change as you move around the exterior. I'm really looking forward to seeing this go up.

I like the multiple "hanging scrims" and think they make a very interesting complement to the windows but I wonder how the heck something like that would work in practice. Motorized? Then you would need a remote with about 30 different buttons to adjust 'em. If you have to pull them manually you have a different problem, given the height of the ceilings. If on the other hand you could not adjust them it would be silly.

**pianoman11686** · June 25th, 2007, 10:47 PM

6/23:

**Front_Porch** · June 26th, 2007, 03:26 PM

My favorite thing about this building, and it's really clear in this set of renderings, is the way the travertine is polished near the windows.

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**hey19932** · August 23rd, 2007, 05:09 PM

Has this started rising yet?

**zarzapan** · August 23rd, 2007, 06:02 PM

Last I saw there was just a backhoe scratching around on the site.

**lofter1** · August 23rd, 2007, 06:35 PM

Lots of foundation work / deep pile driving needed on this site (orignally marshland before it was filled in to become piers and waterfront) ...

**BrooklynRider** · August 23rd, 2007, 08:21 PM

The questionable part of this project are those two sides we don't see in the renderings.

**kz1000ps** · August 23rd, 2007, 08:33 PM

Per the rendering below it looks like it'll be a 22-story version of Le Corbusier's Notre-Dame Du Haut, specifically the south facade: http://figure-ground.com/travel/image.php?ronchamp/0002

**infoshare** · August 24th, 2007, 09:30 AM

Originally Posted by zarzapan

Last I saw there was just a backhoe scratching around on the site.

I walked by the site (without my camera) recently. The excavation work has begun and they are now to about 20 feet deep on the excavation.

**Jasonik** · August 24th, 2007, 02:38 PM

Have we heard anything new about Shigeru Ban?

"With his New York partner, Dean Maltz, Ban is designing a condominium tower next to Frank Gehry’s new IAC headquarters building beside the West Side Highway in Manhattan."

I just starting a thread about it so put any info here.

**hey19932** · August 24th, 2007, 08:56 PM

Glad to hear construction is progressing! for a while I thought that this project was dead becuase of the lack of attention it got for the last couple of months