Saturday, December 6, 2008

A reason to live in NYC

This high-rise under construction in NYC was designed by the same firm that did the "Bird's Nest" in Beijing. If we were trust-fund heirs this would be one of our residences in 2010. Very cool video below.

Project: Herzog & de Meuron - 56 Leonard Street, NYC
Location: 56 Leonard Street, Tribeca Historic District of Manhattan, New York City
Construction Commences: Fall 2008
Projected Occupancy: Fall 2010
Design Architect: Herzog & de Meuron, Basel, Switzerland


56 Leonard Street from david basulto on Vimeo.

2 comments:

Alison said...

Very cool. We'd be your neighbors!

Kenneth C Swoyer said...

Whoa, I'm gonna have to check this building out more thoroughly. I can see it from one of the places I work but I never knew anything about it.