West 57th by BIG, new images by Montse Zamorano
04/09/2016.
The courtscraper [NYC] USA
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
Facing the Hudson River at 57th Street on Manhattan's West Side, the VIA 57 West tower includes 709 rental properties and 142 units and it is one of the most anticipated projects of the Bjarke Ingels Group.
West 57th by BIG. Photography © Montse Zamorano
West 57th by BIG. Photography © Montse Zamorano
West 57th by BIG. Photography © Montse Zamorano
West 57th by BIG. Photography © Montse Zamorano
West 57th by BIG. Photography © Montse Zamorano
West 57th by BIG. Photography © Montse Zamorano
West 57th by BIG. Photography © Montse Zamorano
West 57th by BIG. Photography © Montse Zamorano
West 57th by BIG. Photography © Montse Zamorano
West 57th by BIG. Photography © Montse Zamorano
West 57th by BIG. Photography © Montse Zamorano
West 57th by BIG. Photography © Montse Zamorano
West 57th by BIG. Photography © Montse Zamorano
West 57th by BIG. Photography © Montse Zamorano
Plano de situación. West 57th por BIG
Diagramas. West 57th por BIG
Diagramas. West 57th por BIG
Diagramas. West 57th por BIG
Diagrama. West 57th por BIG
Alzado justificando alturas, propuesto en 2011. West 57th por BIG
Alzado justificando alturas, propuesto en 2011. West 57th por BIG
Desarrollo volumétrico, 2011. West 57th por BIG
The first project in New York and one of the most important projects by Bjarke Ingels Group, its "courtscraper" or the West 57th, an apartment building, is showing in these new photographies by photographer Montse Zamorano.
As Zamorano shows us, the building is arranged around a courtyard with a unusual form that has pyramidal volume. Acording the developer and architect, on a 2011 statement "The proposed rezoning, along with the new and modified special permits, would allow for a mixed-use building with residential, commercial office, retail, community facility, and parking uses. This development would provide new residential uses—including affordable housing units—in the neighborhood, complement the existing residential use on the eastern portion of the block and in the surrounding area, and revitalize the vacant portions of the project block."
Amenities for occupants include an indoor basketball court, swimming pool, fitness centre and screening room, while 45,000 square feet (4,180 square metres) of retail space is spread across the ground floor.
As Zamorano shows us, the building is arranged around a courtyard with a unusual form that has pyramidal volume. Acording the developer and architect, on a 2011 statement "The proposed rezoning, along with the new and modified special permits, would allow for a mixed-use building with residential, commercial office, retail, community facility, and parking uses. This development would provide new residential uses—including affordable housing units—in the neighborhood, complement the existing residential use on the eastern portion of the block and in the surrounding area, and revitalize the vacant portions of the project block."
Amenities for occupants include an indoor basketball court, swimming pool, fitness centre and screening room, while 45,000 square feet (4,180 square metres) of retail space is spread across the ground floor.
More information
Architect
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group
Partner in Charge.- Bjarke Ingels
Project Leader.- Beat Schenk
Project Architect.- Sören Grünert
Team
Thomas Christoffersen, Celine Jeanne, Daniel Sundlin, Alessandro Ronfini, Aleksander Tokarz, Alessio Valmori, Alvaro Garcia Mendive, Felicia Guldberg, Gabrielle Nadeau, Ho Kyung Lee, Julian Liang, Julianne Gola, Lucian Racovitan, Marcela Martinez, Dominyka Mineikyte, Eivor Davidsen Maria Nikolova, Minjae Kim, Mitesh Dixit, Nicklas Rasch, Riccardo Mariano, Stanley Lung, Steffan Heath, Thilani Rajarathna, Xu Li
Collaborators
SLCE Architects (Architect of Record) , Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects, Thornton Tomasetti (Sturctural), Dagher Engineering(MEP), Langan Engineering (Civil), Hunter Roberts (Construction Manager), Philip Habib & Assoc. (Transportation), Israel Berger & Assoc. (Building Envelope), Nancy Packes (Marketing), Van Deusen & Assoc. (Vertical Transportation), Cerami & Assoc. (Acoustical), CPP (Wind), AKRF (Environmental), German Glessner (Renderings & Animation)
Client
Durst Fetner Residential
Size
870,000 ft² (80,000 m²)
BJARKE INGELS
Bjarke Ingels (born in Copenhagen, 1974) studied architecture at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen and at the School of Architecture of Barcelona, obtaining his degree as an architect in 1998. He is the founder of the BIG architecture studio - (Bjarke Ingels Group), studio founded in 2005, after co-founding PLOT Architects in 2001 with his former partner Julien de Smedt, whom he met while working at the prestigious OMA studio in Rotterdam.
Bjarke has designed and completed award-winning buildings worldwide, and currently his studio is based with venues in Copenhagen and New York. His projects include The Mountain, a residential complex in Copenhagen, and the innovative Danish Maritime Museum in Elsinore.
With the PLOT study, he won the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2004, and with BIG he has received numerous awards such as the ULI Award for Excellence in 2009. Other prizes are the Culture Prize of the Crown Prince of Denmark in 2011; and Along with his architectural practice, Bjarke has taught at Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University and Rice University and is an honorary professor at the Royal Academy of Arts, School of Architecture in Copenhagen.
In 2018, Bjarke received the Knight's Cross of the Order of Dannebrog granted by Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II. He is a frequent public speaker and continues to give lectures at places such as TED, WIRED, AMCHAM, 10 Downing Street or the World Economic Forum. In 2018, Bjarke was appointed Chief Architectural Advisor by WeWork to advise and develop the design vision and language of the company for buildings, campuses and neighborhoods around the world.
MONTSE ZAMORANO
Montse Zamorano Gañán (Madrid, 1985) is an architect specialized in architecture photography, always looking to integrate new strategies, tools and methods of marketing and branding for the outreach and support to architecture and design.
She has photographed for architects such as Foster and Partners, Álvaro Siza or Héctor Fernández Elorza and published in architecture media such as Metalocus, TASCHEN, Casabella, Architectural Record, Arquitectura Viva or Detail. Her visual work has been finalist and selected in international awards and festivals and her pictures displayed in exhibitions in Madrid, Valencia, Milan and Shanghai. She greatly enjoys teaching and has lectured and conducted workshops in Harvard-GSD, Keio, Pratt, NJIT and ETSAM.
She studied architecture at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and IIT Chicago, and she holds a Master in Branding at SVA and a Master in Integrated Marketing from NYU as a Fulbright and LaCaixa Scholar.
