New York Projects 8 Created 30-Jun-16 By Hu Limei, Shanghai, China New Museum New York, SANAA museum New York Times Building The Met Breuer 3 Lever House Seagram Building 6 7 World Trade Center 7 New York, 4 New York, Marcel Breuer museum New York, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe New York, Renzo Piano 2 Toren 8 Brooklyn, housing 5 New York, http://wwwmimoaeu/users/hulimei/guides/new%20york/ 88 Pine Street 9 New York, IM Pei 1
photo: Dean Kaufman photo: Dean Kaufman New Museum Bowery 235 New York New York NY 10002 http://wwwnewmuseumorg/ The new home of the New Museum of Contemporary Art is a seven-story, eight-level structure located on the Bowery at a pivotal geographic and cultural intersection in New York s urban fabric A composition of stacked boxes rising 174 feet above the street and shifted off axis in different directions from the building core, conveys the dynamism of the institution, creates skylights that bring natural light into interiors, and is punctuated by windows that offer city vistas The building is clad in a silvery aluminum mesh that captures the effects of changing daylight in a vivid metaphor for the constantly changing dynamics of contemporary art and the openness and permeability of the New Museum itself The building is the first art museum building constructed from the ground up in downtown Manhattan photo: Dean Kaufman 10-2007 Main designer, Client SANAA Gensler ARUP New Museum Naomi Wednesday 12-6 PM Thursday and Friday 12-10 PM Saturday and Sunday 12-6 PM Monday and Tuesday closed The Museum is closed to the public on Monday and Tuesday CIT Free Thursday Evenings (from 7 PM to 10 PM) The New Museum is located at 235 Bowery (at Prince Street between Stanton and Rivington Streets, one and a half blocks south of Houston) Subway: 6 to Spring Street or N/R to Prince Street Bus: M103 to Prince and Bowery or M6 to Broadway and Prince http://wwwmimoaeu/users/hulimei/guides/new%20york/ 2
photo: Alberto M Sánchez photo: Alberto M Sánchez New York Times Building 8th Avenue and West 41st Street 620 New York New York http://wwwnewyorktimesbuildingcom/ Renzo Piano Building Workshop & FXFOWLE collaboratively designed a new headquarters for The New York Times The building, located on Eighth Avenue between 40th and 41st Street opposite the Port Authority Bus Terminal, unites the company's employees under one roof in an exceptional signature structure The design incorporates a transparent glass tower screened by planes of glazed terracotta tubes that seem to float above the street An advanced sunshading system, floor to ceiling glass, increased ceiling heights, efficient lighting and mechanical systems, displaced ventilation, extensive mock-up testing, and a variety of additional sustainable features will ensure that the New York Times Building will bring a new standard of comfort and efficiency in high-rise space The building is 52 Stories (1,142 feet) tall, including antenna photo: Alberto M Sánchez 11-2007 Main designer, Client Renzo Piano FXFOWLE s New York Times Company and Forest City Ratner Companies asanchez http://wwwmimoaeu/users/hulimei/guides/new%20york/ 3
photo: Naomi Schiphorst photo: Naomi Schiphorst The Met Breuer Madison Avenue at 75th Street 945 New York New York 10021 http://whitneyorg/about/breuerbuilding The Whitney Museum houses one of the world's foremost collections of twentieth-century American art It owes its striking granite presence at the southeast corner of Madison Avenue and 75th Street to the Hungarian-born, Bauhaus-trained architect Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) To design a third home for the Museum which had gradually migrated northward from its original location on West 8th Street to West 54th Street Breuer worked with Hamilton Smith, creating a strong modernist statement in a neighborhood of traditional limestone, brownstone, and brick row houses and postwar apartment buildings Considered somber, heavy, and even brutal at the time of its completion in 1966 ("an inverted Babylonian ziggurat," according to one critic), Breuer's building is now recognized as daring, strong, and innovative It has come to be recognized as one of New York City s most notable buildings and identified with the Whitney Museum's approach to art 1966 Marcel Breuer Naomi photo: Alberto M Sánchez Wednesday Thursday: 11 am 6 pm Friday: 1 9 pm (6 9 pm pay-what-you-wish admission) Saturday Sunday: 11 am 6 pm Monday & Tuesday: Closed General Information: (212) 570-3600 Subway: 6 Train to 77th Street Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4 to 74th Street Car: Two parking garages offer discounts with Whitney ticket validation 35 East 75th Street (10% discount) 68 East 80th Street (3 hours for $20) http://wwwmimoaeu/users/hulimei/guides/new%20york/ 4
photo: Alberto M Sánchez photo: Alberto M Sánchez Lever House Park Avenue at 53rd Street 390 New York New York http://wwwleverhousecom/ When Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merill built Lever House in 1952, Park Avenue was lined with solid masonry buildings, packed one against the other, all pushed to the street's edge The Lever Brothers (manufacturers of soap and detergents) erected the boulevard's first glass-covered tower The tower stands with its narrow side towards the street The slab is counter-posed to a horizontal slab which floats on a series of columns The horizontal mezzanine is cut out in the center, creating a central courtyard Now, 50 years later, Lever House stands as a model of intelligent architecture, and with it current landmark restoration, it shines brighter than ever The restoration holds as closely as possible to the original It is a small building by Manhattan standards, but the glass-walled skyscraper marked a turning point in American architecture The fact that the tower now seems like just one of so many towers shows how much it has been copied 1952 Client Lever Brothers Company asanchez photo: Alberto M Sánchez Public spaces in the building are open during -hours You can also visit the restaurant, opening hours are: Lunch Mo-Fri:11:45-02:30 pm Dinner Mo - Thu 05:30-11 pm Friday Saturday 5:30pm - 11:30 pm +1 212 688 6000 http://wwwmimoaeu/users/hulimei/guides/new%20york/ 5
photo: Fernando Miguel García Martín photo: Fernando Miguel García Martín Seagram Building Park Avenue 375 New York New York 10152 The Seagram Building located at 375 Park Avenue, between 52nd Street and 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan, was designed by the German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, in collaboration with the American Philip Johnson and was completed in 1958 The Seagram Building was meant to confirm Mies' assertion that when modern industrialized building technology is truthfully expressed, architecture becomes transcendent Ironically, the luxurious materials used (marble for the plaza benches, travertine for the lobby walls and floor, tinted glass and bronze for the curtain wall) and the carefully controlled customized details that pervade the building remind the viewer that this building is far from being the simple result of rationalized industrial production and construction techniques Much copied but not matched, the Seagram Building is generally recognized as the finest example of skyscrapers in the International Style (text from New York ure Images) Public access unknown! 1958 Client Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Joseph E Seagram & Sons fotosvoladoras photo: Fernando Miguel García Martín http://wwwmimoaeu/users/hulimei/guides/new%20york/ 6
photo: Piotr Krajewski 7 World Trade Center Greenwich Street 250 New York New York 10007 http://wwwwtccom/ 7 World Trade Center is a building in New York City, located across from the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan The name '7 World Trade Center' has referred to two buildings: the original structure, completed in 1987, and the current one On September 11, 2001, 7 WTC was damaged by debris when the nearby North Tower of the WTC collapsed 7 WTC would eventually collapse completely later that day Associated with the World Trade Center complex only by name, the new 7 WTC aspires to be a fresh image representing new growth The 52-storey Manhattan tower looks to historic SOM predecessors as a model of simple form and functional representation, but moves beyond these precedents through contemporary building enhancements that have created a new model for life safety and sustainable design (text from Wikipedia and architects' website) Public access unknown! 2006 pkrajewski_pl photo: Piotr Krajewski http://wwwmimoaeu/users/hulimei/guides/new%20york/ 7
Toren Myrtle Avenue 150 Brooklyn New York 11201 http://torencondocom/ SOM architects residential hi-rise on the edge of the Fort Greene neighbourhood of Brooklyn Project is not public! 2009 Kevin_Guyer photo: Kevin Guyer Take the B, R or Q subway to the Dekalb Avenue stop Walk west down Flatbush Avenue two blocks towards the Manhattan Bridge Toren is at the corner of Flatbush and Myrtle You can also drive over the Manhattan Bridge, which turns into Flatbush Avenue and drive through three traffic lights to Myrtle Avenue and take a left You will be right in front of Toren http://wwwmimoaeu/users/hulimei/guides/new%20york/ 8
photo: Andre Staalenhoef 88 Pine Street Pine Street 88 New York New York NY 10005 http://wwwpcf-pcom This 32-story investment tower, intended for an unknown and varied tenancy with diverse space requirements, was designed for maximum interior flexibility The building program stipulated that large amounts of undivided space be provided for Wall Street brokerage houses The solution is a loft building designed with economically placed columns and slabs; only essential components are expressed The white aluminum cladding was selected to stand out among other, darker towers downtown, and to complement historic sailing vessels moored at South Street Seaport The white finish was achieved by "painting" the curtain wall with baked-on silicone-reinforced acrylic enamel, the first such large-scale application Each 28-foot bay frames a continuous window comprising three large panes of glass butt-joined with silicone sealant The absence of mullions preserves the building's simplicity and suggests its interior flexibility 1973 yep photo: Andre Staalenhoef http://wwwmimoaeu/users/hulimei/guides/new%20york/ 9