Contemporary

top ten recent
(2013)

For a more complete list, see
Recent New
York (c. 2013)

8 Spruce Street-
Beekman Tower

architect	Frank Gehry
location	8 Spruce Street
date	2010
style	Blobitecture
construction	Apartment Building
type	903-unit luxury residential tower clad in stainless steel. RC frame.

Mr. Gehry’s tower, by contrast, harks back to the euphoric aspirations of an
earlier age without succumbing to nostalgia. Like Jean Nouvel’s recently
unveiled design for a West 53rd Street tower, which suggests shards of glass
tumbling from the sky, it signals that the city is finally emerging from a
long period of creative exhaustion.

WTC 1- One World Trade Center
(Freedom Tower)

architect	Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
location	Nnorthwest corner of the 16-acre World Trade Center site.
date	expected to be completed sometime in 2013
style	Neomodern architecture
construction	Office Building

WTC Memorial

architect	Michael Arad (Architect) and Peter Walker (Landscape)
location	Old WTC site, lower Manhattan.
date	2011
style	Neomodern architecture
construction	Memorial
type	Complementing the memorial, a state-of-the art museum designed by Davis Brody Bond will offer visitors an opportunity to deepen their experience at the site.

WTC Transit Hub

architect	Santiago Calatrava
location	WTC site, lower Manhattan
date	2013
style	Blobitecture
construction	railway station, retail spaces
type	concrete, steel

“ The World Trade Center PATH Terminal by Santiago Calatrava, the
renowned Spanish architect and engineer, is what we should have at ground zero.
Not modified suburban malls with water fountains, but a major cultural
contribution to our city.”
Michael Kimmelman

100 11th Ave: Vision Machine

architect	Jean Nouvel
location	100-110 Eleventh Avenue / 535-541 West 19th Street
date	2008
style	Crafted Modernism
construction	Apartment Building
type	The main south curtain wall is comprised of approximately 1,647 completely different colorless windowpanes organized within enormous steel-framed “megapanels” that range from 11 to 16 feet tall and as wide as 37 feet across.

MoMA's Proposed Expansion
- The Tower Verre

architect	Jean Nouvel
location	MoMA's Proposed Expansion
date	On hold. Fantastic building. Wish it was built.
style	Deconstructivism
construction	Apartment Building
type	initially was proposed to stand 1,250 feet (381 m) tall (the same height as the Empire State Building below its mast) and contain 75 floors. The building's skin would contain a faceted exterior that tapers to a set of crystalline peaks at the apex of the tower. Due to this, the project is said to be one of the most exciting additions to New York's skyline in a generation.

15 CPW

architect	Robert A. M. Stern
location	15 Central Park West (60th Street and Central Park West).
date	2006-8
style	Contemporary Neo-classical According to New York Times architecture critic Paul Goldberger, 15 CPW was designed to "echo" Central park West's many notable late Art Deco buildings. He describe the building in Vanity Fair as an "ingenious homage to the classic Candela-designed apartment buildings on Park and Fifth Avenues." He compares 15 CPW to the great apartment houses of the 1920's, 834 Fifth Avenue, 778 Park Avenue, 1040 Fifth Avenue and 740 Park Avenue.
construction	Apartment Building

515 West 23rd

architect	Neil Denari
location	515 West 23rd
date	2012
style	Blobitecture
construction	Apartment Building
type	Concrete and steel frame

HL23 architect Neil Denari spoke about his East Coast comeback, his shiny
buildings that look like cars, and what makes his High Line building a "social
contract." The best part may be the archibabble that results from a question
about building luxury residences: "Okay, this is a very high-end building, it's
very expensive, but I think for me, I just sort of think it's for the city. And
the people who live in this building, I think they know the building is for the
city. They're participating in the symbiosis of the High Line and the shift in
design culture. New York is back."

One Madison Avenue

architect	Daniel Libeskind
location	One Madison Avenue
date	On hold. Fantastic building. Wish it was built.
style	Blobitecture
construction	Apartment Building
type	Initial designs show a glass-curtained tube with cutaways spiraling up and around the façade to reveal segments of terraced verdure, like cultivated patches on the side of a steep alpine slope.

56 Leonard Street

architect	Herzog &De Mueron
location	56 Leonard Street
date	on hold
style	Crafted Modernism
construction	Apartment Building
type	The tower will stand 56 stories tall, house 145 residential units featuring apartments and luxury penthouses.

IAC
/ InterActiveCorp
Offices

architect	Frank Gehry
location	West 15th Street and Ninth Avenue (the corner of Ninth Avenue and 15th Street)
date	2007
style	Late Modern Deconstructivist
construction	zinc and glass
type	Office Building

BLUE Condominium

architect	Bernard Tschumi
location	Norfolk Avenue, between Delancey and Rivington Avenues in Manhattan's Lower East Side.
date	2007
style	Deconstructivist
construction	glass, steel and concrete frame
type	Apartment Building
	The BLUE Condominium by Bernard Tschumi on Manhattan's Lower East Side is more aligned with Gehry's office building than Nouvel's residential one, as can be seen by the below image.

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