ONE57 West 57th Street is a new skyscraper designed by Christian de Portzamparc (1994 Pritzker Prize Winner), and the Extell’s new flagship residential tower and hotel development. Slated to be the tallest residential property in Manhattan, this skyscraper will rise to over 1,000 feet (75 stories) and provide residents with great views of Central Park to the North, Downtown to the South, and both Hudson and East Rivers. The building will have 92 luxury residences above the 210-key Park Hyatt New York hotel.

Synopsis about project

In 2005, Gary Barnett, the president of Extell, commissioned Christian de Portzamparc to design several towers on 57th Street. The building’s trademark soaring movement, with its summit turned towards the immense open sky of Central Park, emerged early in the design stage.

In the light of his previous projects, the architect was quickly able to come up with a definitive solution to build the highest residential tower in New York during an economic crisis, on a highly irregular site, as part of a complex including the Park Hyatt Hotel and, on the upper floors, stunning apartments with views over Central Park, with an interior design by Thomas Juul-Hansen, thereby covering every aspect of the project.

The lots finally acquired by the promoter formed an “L” shape. Christian de Portzamparc drew on this complexity to provide the main thrust of his design. The result reflects the structural requirements of a markedly elongated tower, the city’s alignment regulations and the air rights specific to this site. The building’s volumes are linked by an ascending and descending cascading movement that flows over curved transitional surfaces containing inhabited terraces.

A vertical pattern of contrasting stripes comprised of two different glass types (with uniform visibility from the interior) distinguish the north façades and recall the vertical energy of New York’s cascading skyline, in contrast with the east and west façades that resemble the aleatory aesthetic of the Le Monde and Nantes projects, with its Gustave Klimt-like pixilation that fluctuates with the constantly changing light exposure.

 

CREDITS

Architects.- Atelier Christian de Portzamparc.

Program.- Hotel and Residential.
Client.- Extell Development Company.
Executive Architect.- SLCE Architect LLP.

Consultant Façade.- Israel Berger Associates.
Residential interior design.- Thomas Juul-Hansen, LLC.
Hotel interior design.- Yabu Pushelberg
Total construction floor area.- 74,353 m² (800,329 sqf)
Height.- 306 m (1004 ft), 75 floors.

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Christian de Portzamparc, born in Casablanca in 1944, is an architect and urban planner. He graduated from the Paris School of Fine Arts in 1969 and set up his agency, the Atelier Christian de Portzamparc, in 1980. Based in Paris, France, the Atelier is a global operation with a close-knit team of 100 employees who enjoy positive working relationships with established partners around the world. Organized into several “studios”, they work with partners on a wide variety of ambitious international projects. As well as constructing buildings, Christian de Portzamparc, an architect, urban planner and painter, is engaged in the search for form and meaning.

From the city to the object, Christian de Portzamparc has worked on towers since his first projects in 1974. His best known tower is the LVMH Tower in New York, USA, completed in 1999 (Business Week and Architectural Record award 2006), followed by the competition for the Hearst tower in 2000 and soon to be accompanied by the residential tower 400 Park Avenue in Manhattan, New York, USA, approved by the City Planning authorities in 2004 and for which the site demolition started in December 2011. The 603-feet high headquarters of French bank Société Générale at La Défense district in Paris, the Granite Tower (completed in 2008) is the first sustainable high-rise building in France (H.E.Q. certified, the French equivalent of the North American LEED).

In 1994, Christian de Portzamparc became the first French architect to gain the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize at the age of 50. He has been made Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, Officier de l’Ordre du Mérite and Chevalier de l’Ordre de la Légion d’Honneur, and was awarded the Grand Prix d’Architecture de la Ville de Paris in 1990, the Médaille d’Argent in 1992 and the Grand Prix National d’Architecture in 1998. He has also been appointed an Honorory Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (A.I.A.). The most prestigious city planning prize in France, Grand Prix de l’Urbanisme, was awarded to him in 2004. In 2006, the Collège de France created a 53rd chair dedicated to “artistic creation”, Christian de Portzamparc was its first holder.

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Published on: January 5, 2014
Cite: "New Skyscraper to New York" METALOCUS. Accessed
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