herzog & de meuron constructs concrete apartment building
architecture firm herzog & de meuron has completed an eight storey residential building inside a former industrial site in northern switzerland.
The 831-foot-tall reinforced concrete structure (see sidebar, page 96) contains only 145 condominiums, ranging from 650-square-foot studios to penthouse apartments of more than 6,000 square feet. Although no two floors within the building are exactly the same, the unit types are organized into seven zones that can be discerned from the outside if one carefully studies the shift in the patterns ...
40 Bond, Apartment Building, New York
The structure of the building is pushed to the exterior, thus introducing depth and liberating the interior from freestanding columns. Both slab and column are made of reinforced concrete , and clad with gently curved glass covers, which wrap over the structure and can be read as a continuation of the windowpanes.
The Bond Street area was one of NY's most exclusive residential neighborhoods at the beginning of the 18th century. Prominent families lived in elegant brick and marble-faced row houses and mansions. The area lost its glamour in the 1840s when Fifth Avenue became more desirable and commercial buildings began to replace row houses. The diversity of buildings in NoHo, the mix of residential ...
56 Leonard Street, New York
Conceived like a huge stack of lone houses, the building presents unique and identifiable apartments within blocks. With the objective of giving each condominium a differentiated set of conditions, the floor slabs vary, creating corners, balconies, and cantilevers that take on special forms.
In a city where many of the world's most prominent architects have yet to leave their mark, Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron continues to build; its fourth building in New York City opened this week. The firm has become something of a staple in the city's luxury real estate market over the past decade, a tenure it began with a condo project at 40 Bond Street in 2007. Since then, Herzog & de ...
56 Leonard Street by Herzog & de Meuron
The building also shows its structural 'bones' and does not hide the method of its fabrication underneath layers of cladding. Instead, exposed horizontal concrete slabs register the floor-by-floor stacking of the construction process and exposed in-situ concrete columns allow the scale of the structural forces at work to be experienced from ...
Instead, exposed horizontal concrete slabs register the floor-by-floor stacking of the construction process and exposed in-situ concrete columns allow the scale of the structural forces at work to be experienced from within the interior.
56 Leonard Street Herzog & de Meuron
Instead, exposed horizontal concrete slabs register the floor-by-floor stacking of the construction process and exposed in-situ concrete columns allow the scale of the structural forces at work to ...
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