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Category Archives: Modern Decon
56 Leonard Street is being put on ice
Can it be true that 56 Leonard Street is being put on ice? The uber-luxe 57-story Tribeca condo project from Herzog & de Meuron opened a schnazzy show room this fall. By mid-November the foundation had been poured. But now the word from the construction gang at the very busy and newly-glassed New York Law School Library project going up next door at 40 Leonard Street is that the fantastical stack of glassy condos, while not yet dead, has been “shut down,” and that the project will not be revived until either “March 2009″ or “sometime in 2010.” Continue reading
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56 Leonard Street
56 Leonard Street is a 796ft (243m) tall skyscraper under construction (on hold) in New York City, New York. It is designed by the Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron and will be located on Leonard Street (Manhattan) in Tribeca and have 58 floors. Continue reading
MoMa Mia! Opponents of MoMA Tower Accuse it of Brooding, Being Tall
The war of petitions over Jean Nouvel’s shrinking Tower Verre continues, and a tipster passed along the challengers’ attorney’s latest memo in the case. Continue reading
The Point of the Skyline
A skyscraper is not a metaphor. It’s what happens when a team of cost analysts, insurers, engineers, architects, developers, investors, and lenders makes a collective determination that math, physics, and market forces, fused in one enormous hunk of a building, will probably yield a profit. Continue reading
Tower Verre
Tower Verre, also known as the MoMA Expansion Tower and 53 West 53rd Street, is a supertall skyscraper proposed by the real estate company Hines to rise in Midtown Manhattan, New York City adjacent to the Museum of Modern Art. Continue reading