In Midtown Manhattan, at a pace of one floor every four days, the skyscraper designed by Jean Nouvel is beginning to rise above New York’s MoMA. Construction on the project - which began life nearly a decade ago as ‘Torre Verre’ - got underway in 2014 with a new name, 53W53. Now, with the development overmore halfway through its 55-month schedule, the super-tall structure is on track to open in early 2019.
Construction photos released along, on the 58th level  (the completed building will contain 82 floors)  with new renderings, show the development of French architect Jean Nouvel's skyscraper in Manhattan.

Skyscraper is rising above New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) at 53 West 53rd Street, the new name 53W53 residential tower is due to reach 320.0 meter tall once complete.
 
"53W53's sculptural form, progressive yet reminiscent of classic Manhattan skyscrapers, incorporates an innovative exposed structural system, which Nouvel refers to as the diagrid," said a statement released with the images. "Because of the building's tapering design and the diagrid, the layout of each condominium residence is unique."

The buildings interiors have been designed by interior architect Thierry Despont, known for his "mastery of exceptional private residences" and some of the most luxurious hotels in the world. 145 residences range in size from one-to-five bedrooms, including full floor homes and duplex penthouses with private elevators.

The skyscraper is one of several residential towers in Midtown Manhattan that are categorised as supertall – measuring between 300 and 600 meter (980 and 2,000 feet ). Rafael Viñoly's 432 Park Avenue or Christian de Portzamparc's One57  are among the others.

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Ateliers Jean Nouvel
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Project Leaders.- Bertram Beissel, Manal Rachdi, Damien Faraut, François Leininger, Ingrid Menon, Stacy Eisenberg. Architects.- Pablo Alvarenga, Maya Barakat, Jean-Patrick Degrave, Constanza Jorquera, Narjis Lemrini, Amanda Ortland Beissel, Matthieu Puyaubreau, Mélanie Doremus, Fred Imbert, Tristan Israel, Laetitia Degroote, Etienne Gobin
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Architect of Record.- AAI Architects, P.C.
Structural Engineer.- WSP Cantor Seinuk
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Owners
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Goldman Sachs; Pontiac Land Group
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Developer
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Gerald D Hines Interests
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Proposed.- 2007. Start of Construction.- 2014. Completion.- 2017-2019
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Height.- Architectural.- 320.0 meter / 1050 feet
Height.- To Tip: 320.0 meter / 1050 feet
Floors Above Ground.- 77
Floors Below Ground.- 3
No. of Apartments.- 180
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Jean Nouvel, (born August 12, 1945) is a French architect. Nouvel studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and was a founding member of Mars 1976 and Syndicat de l'Architecture. He has obtained a number of prestigious distinctions over the course of his career, including the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (technically, the prize was awarded for the Institut du Monde Arabe which Nouvel designed), the Wolf Prize in Arts in 2005 and the Pritzker Prize in 2008.

Nouvel was awarded the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honour, in 2008, for his work on more than 200 projects, among them, in the words of The New York Times, the "exotically louvered" Arab World Institute, the bullet-shaped and "candy-colored" Torre Agbar in Barcelona, the "muscular" Guthrie Theater with its cantilevered bridge in Minneapolis, and in Paris, the "defiant, mysterious and wildly eccentric" Musée du quai Branly (2006) and the Philharmonie de Paris (a "trip into the unknown" c. 2012).

Pritzker points to several more major works: in Europe, the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art (1994), the Culture and Convention Center in Lucerne (2000), the Opéra Nouvel in Lyon (1993) , Expo 2002 in Switzerland and, under construction, the Copenhagen Concert Hall and the courthouse in Nantes (2000); as well as two tall towers in planning in North America, Tour Verre in New York City and a cancelled condominium tower in Los Angeles. International cultural projects such as the Abu Dhabi Louvre, the Philharmonic Hall in Paris, the Qatar National Museum in Doha, or the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2010 in London.

In its citation, the jury of the Pritzker prize noted:

Of the many phrases that might be used to describe the career of architect Jean Nouvel, foremost are those that emphasize his courageous pursuit of new ideas and his challenge of accepted norms in order to stretch the boundaries of the field. [...] The jury acknowledged the ‘persistence, imagination, exuberance, and, above all, an insatiable urge for creative experimentation’ as qualities abundant in Nouvel’s work.

Among his principal completed projects, we find the Arab World Institute in Paris, the Cartier Foundation and the Quai Branly museum in Paris, the Culture and Congress Center KKL in Lucerne, the extension of the Queen Sofia Arts Center in Madrid, the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, the Philharmonic of Paris…
 
Among the projects currently under studies or under construction: the “53W53, Tour de Verre” integrating the extension of the MoMA galleries in New York, the residential towers “Le Nouvel” in Kuala Lumpur, “Anderson 18” and “Ardmore” in Singapore and “Rosewood” in São Paulo, the office towers “Hekla” and “Duo” in Paris, the cultural complex “The Artists’ Garden” in Qingdao or the National Art Museum of China NAMOC in Beijing… The design of the Louvre Abu Dhabi began in 2006 with Jean Nouvel’s Partner Architect Hala Wardé.
 

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