Herzog & de Meuron – 56 Leonard Street, NY
In the design by Herzog & de Meuron for 560 Leonard Street the load-bearing structure is strategically absent in the façade. The round columns are placed where Le Corbusier put them: just off the wall. The effect is not so much that of weightlessness – the building still has a distinct, ‘heavy’ mass that firmly stands on the ground. No, combined with the hip displacement of the upper floors, the effect is that of the stack. A stack of 56 stories, to be precise.
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very clever chaps those swiss, especially feeling the Anish Kapoor piece on the ground floor, good to see new life breathed into tall buildings again.