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100 11th Ave: Vision Machine – by Jean Nouvel

It would be a fast turnaround for an ordinary building, but for the finest French starchitecture has to offer—quelle horreur! We might have guessed the lobby rocks threw things out of balance, but it turns out the boulders are just three of many horreurs plaguing the building’s buyers. Continue reading

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Jean Nouvel’s West Chelsea Starchitecture Blinding the Neighbors?

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. Continue reading

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Tower on Hudson River nears completion

Designed as a direct descendent of French architect Jean Nouvel’s Parisian landmark Arab World Institute building, his new 23-storey residential tower overlooking the Hudson River is nearing completion. Previously known as 100 11th, the tower has now been named Nouvel Chelsea in admiration of the architect’s prestige but the architect himself has called it his ‘vision machine’.
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At the Corner of Grit and Glamour- Architecture Review of Nouvel’s 100 Eleventh

During the past few years Chelsea became a one-stop-shopping destination for high-style contemporary architecture as well as high-end art, and the results can be depressing. For every significant building that went up, the neighborhood seemed to produce a half-dozen or so inferior knockoffs. The feeling on the streets now is the same as it is in most of the galleries: the sheer amount of work, and the mediocrity of most of it, can make the effort of sorting out the good from the bad too painful to contemplate. Continue reading

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Jean Nouvel’s ‘Vision’ Rising in Chelsea

A gray strip of West Chelsea is about to become the capital of bold architecture in Manhattan. In one corner, the undulating curves of Frank Gehry’s new IAC building. And now facing it, Jean Nouvel’s “Vision Machine,” a 23-story glittering glass residential tower at the 19th Street and the West Side Highway, which broke ground this week. Continue reading

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