![]() Its ambition is to achieve, despite its size, a character that is individual and personal, perhaps even intimate …” (Herzog & Meuron) “… Leonard Street acts against this anonymity and repetitiveness, emanating from so many towers of the recent past. For those living in these structures, this experience of equality and repetition can be relatively unpleasant. The multiplication of units within simple extruded forms produces repetitive and anonymous structures without additional benefits or architectural qualities despite the incredible densities they attain. Typical residential towers often do not improve in the living environment. However, the towers have come to be defined solely by their height and as category they have become anonymous. The high-rise tower is an important ingredient within the contemporary city. The surface of the ground on which the building is displaced is 12,954 m2 of which this only occupies 3,810 m2 in floor, the ground floor is distributed as follows: 563 m2 for commercial premises, 2,956 m2 for the gym and a room Of projections among other services. The exact location of the site is found at 56 Leonard Street on the corner of Church St, in New York‘s popular Tribeca neighborhood, the Historic District of Midtown Manhattan, United States, like many others in the image of the revolutionary Soho. ![]() This unusual feature for high-rise buildings also allows occupants to directly control the intake of fresh air.Īlthough its completion was scheduled for 2010, it was extended until the end of 2016 and in the first months of 2017 there were still details to be completed The system of staggering, recoil and pixelation is further encouraged through operable windows in every second or third facade unit. The exposed horizontal concrete slabs record the floor-to-floor stacking of the construction process and the exposed concrete columns allow the scale of structural forces to be located at work from the inside. ![]() The building also shows its structural “bones” and does not obscure the method of its construction under the cladding layers. As a volume, the building has extreme proportions, at the very edge of what is structurally possible, and given its relatively small surface, it is exceptionally tall and slender. The general appearance of the tower is the result of accepting and pushing to the limit the local and simple methods of construction. This is the first skyscraper built by the Swiss architects, who, although they have already faced larger projects (at least at the urban and social level), have never before had the opportunity to experiment with American construction par excellence, and that better Place for its debut that the city of the skyscrapers. The 56 Leonard Street skyscraper is a vertical expression of sculpted surfaces in glass, overhanging and shining crystals. Herzog & de Meuron have erected an iconic tower on the New York skyline. ![]()
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