New York City

nikos a écrit:

Un article du NY Times sur un projet de tour assez sympa de Nouvel. [...]

Superbe projet.

J'ai créé un nouveau sujet pour cette tour : https://www.pss-archi.eu/forum/viewtopic.php?id=29094

Courrier International 16/11/2007

La transparence selon Renzo Piano

Chargé de la conception du nouveau siège du New York Times au lendemain du 11 septembre, l'architecte italien a opté pour la lumière et les espaces ouverts. "Une ville où règne la sécurité est une ville qui n'a pas de recoins sombres", explique-t-il au Corriere della Sera.

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http://www.courrierinternational.com/ar … j_id=79829

Vous m'avez devancé. J'étais sur le point de vous mettre l'article.
Voici le lien pour celui qui vient du Monde:
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0 … 335,0.html

Enfin bon, les locaux ne sont pas aussi enthousiasmés par cette tour et à vrai dire moi non plus. Je la vois tous les jours de chez moi et je me dis qu'elle a un ton très austère qui ne va pas du tout avec les tours de time Square, plus colorées, plus funs. Cette grisaille et ce cladding très opaque sont d'une tristesse... De plus, je trouve cela très limite de mettre une simple pointe de 90m pour donner le titre a une tour de 228m de deuxième plus haut building de NY. 

Gunty a écrit:

Enfin bon, les locaux ne sont pas aussi enthousiasmés par cette tour et à vrai dire moi non plus. Je la vois tous les jours de chez moi et je me dis qu'elle a un ton très austère qui ne va pas du tout avec les tours de time Square, plus colorées, plus funs. Cette grisaille et ce cladding très opaque sont d'une tristesse... De plus, je trouve cela très limite de mettre une simple pointe de 90m pour donner le titre a une tour de 228m de deuxième plus haut building de NY. 

Oui c'est un peu le syndrome T1, un rendu cristalin qui fait fantasmer tout le monde seulement on oubli que c'est impossible à réaliser (à ma connaissance).
Pour la hauteur de la tour c'est un peu ridicule, mais bon les gens ne sont pas dupes.
Par contre je croyais que Piano et Rogers étaient brouilllés (il y a trente ans tout du moins) et l'article les présente comme les meilleurs amis du monde  , j'ai bien peur que ce soit un raccourci un peu grossier utilisé par l'auteur de l'article.

Je vous envoie un lien en rapport avec un article du New York Times concernant le projet de developpement urbain pour la zone ferrovière du "West Side" au niveau de Pennstation. Il s'agit d'un projet de développement aussi important que ground zero(voir plus). Article très intérressant présentant les projets en compétitions.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/24/arts/ … 4huds.html

Architecture Review
In Plans for Railyards, a Mix of Towers and Parks

By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF
Published: November 24, 2007
The West Side railyards are the kind of urban development project that makes builders dance in the streets. A footprint bigger than Rockefeller Center’s and the potential for more commercial and residential space than ground zero: what more could an urban visionary want?

So the five proposals recently unveiled by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to develop the 26-acre Manhattan railyards are not just a disappointment for their lack of imagination, they are also a grim referendum on the state of large-scale planning in New York City.

With the possible exception of a design for the Extell Development Company, the proposals embody the kind of tired, generic planning formulas that appear wherever big development money is at stake. When thoughtful architecture surfaces at all, it is mostly a superficial gloss of culture, rather than a sincere effort to come to terms with the complex social and economic changes the city has been undergoing for the last decade or so.

Located on six square blocks between 30th and 33rd Streets and 10th Avenue and the West Side Highway, the yards are one of the few remaining testaments to New York’s industrial past. Dozens of tracks leading in and out of Pennsylvania Station carve through the site. A string of parking lots and old industrial buildings flanks the tracks to the south; the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center is a block to the north. To build, developers first will have to create a platform over the tracks, at an estimated cost of $1.5 billion; construction of the platform and towers has to take place without interrupting train service.

City officials and the transportation authority, which owns the railyards, have entertained various proposals for the site in recent years, including an ill-conceived stadium for the Jets. The current guidelines would allow up to 13 million square feet of commercial, retail and residential space; a building to house a cultural group yet to be named; and a public park.

All five of the development teams chose to arrange the bulk of the towers at the northern and southern edges of the site, to minimize disruption of the tracks below, and concentrated the majority of the commercial towers to the east, and the residential towers to the west, where they would have views of the Hudson River.

But none of the teams have fully explored the potentially rich relationship between the railyards and the development above them, an approach that could have added substance to the plans. Nor did any find a successful way to come to terms with the project’s gargantuan scale.

The proposal by the Related Companies would transform the site into a virtual theme park for Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, the developer’s main tenant. The design, by a team of architects that includes Kohn Pedersen Fox, Arquitectonica and Robert A. M. Stern, would be anchored at its eastern end by a 74-story tower. Three slightly smaller towers would flank it, creating an imposing barrier between the public park and the rest of the city to the east.

The plan also includes a vast retail mall and plaza between 10th and 11th Avenues, which could be used by News Corporation for advertising, video projections and outdoor film and concert events — a concept that would essentially transform what is being hailed as a public space into a platform for corporate self-promotion. A proposal by FXFowle and Pelli Clarke Pelli for the Durst Organization and Vornado Realty Trust is slightly less disturbing. Following a similar plan, it would be anchored by a new tower for Condé Nast Publications to the north, and a row of residential towers extending to the west. Sinuous, elevated pedestrian walkways would wind their way through the site just above the proposed public park. The walkways are meant to evoke a contemporary version of the High Line, the raised tracks being converted into a public garden just to the south. But their real precedents are the deadening elevated streets found in late Modernist housing complexes.

By comparison, the proposal by Tishman Speyer Properties, designed by Helmut Jahn, at least seems more honest. The site is anchored by four huge towers that taper slightly as they rise, exaggerating their sense of weight and recalling more primitive, authoritarian forms: you might call it architecture of intimidation. As you move west, a grand staircase leads down to a circular plaza that would link the park to a pedestrian boulevard the city plans to construct from the site north toward 42nd Street.

Mr. Jahn built his reputation in the 1980s and ’90s, when many modern architects were struggling to pump energy into work that had become cold and alienating. Over all, the design looks like a conventional 1980s mega-development: an oddly retro vision of uniform glass towers set around a vast plaza decorated with a few scattered cafes. (In a rare nice touch, Mr. Jahn allows some of his towers to cantilever out over the deck of the High Line, playing up the violent clash between new and old.)

Another proposal, by Brookfield Properties, is an example of how real architectural talent can be used to give a plan an air of sophistication without adding much substance. Brookfield has included a few preliminary sketches of buildings by architectural luminaries like Diller Scofidio & Renfro and the Japanese firm Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa, but the sketches are nothing more than window dressing. The proposal includes a retail mall and commercial towers along 10th Avenue, which gives the public park an isolated feel. A hotel and retail complex cuts the park in two, so that you lose the full impact of its sweep.

For those who place urban-planning issues above dollars and cents, the Extell Development Company’s proposal is the only one worth serious consideration. Designed by Steven Holl Architects of New York, the plan tries to minimize the impact of the development’s immense scale. Most of the commercial space would be concentrated in three interconnecting towers on the northeast corner of the site. The towers’ forms pull apart and join together as they rise — an effort to break down their mass in the skyline. Smaller towers flank the site’s southern edge, their delicate, shardlike forms designed to allow sunlight to spill into the park area. A low, 10-story commercial building to the north is lifted off the ground on columns to allow the park to slip underneath and connect to 33rd Street.

The plan’s most original feature is a bridgelike cable structure that would span the existing tracks and support a 19-acre public park. According to the developer, the cable system would reduce the cost of building over the tracks significantly, allowing the density to be reduced to 11.3 million square feet from 13 million and still make a profit. The result would be both a more generous public space and a less brutal assault on the skyline. It is a sensitive effort to blend the development into the city’s existing fabric.

But what is really at issue here is putting the importance of profit margins above architecture and planning. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority could have pushed for more ambitious proposals. For decades now cities like Barcelona have insisted on a high level of design in large-scale urban-planning projects, and they have done so without economic ruin.

By contrast, the authority is more likely to focus on potential tenants like News Corporation and Condé Nast and the profits they can generate than on the quality of the design. A development company like Extell is likely to be rejected outright as too small to handle a project of this scale, however original its proposal. (In New York dark horse candidates often find that ambitious architectural proposals are one of the few ways to compete with bigger rivals.)

This is not how to build healthy cities. It is a model for their ruin, one that has led to a parade of soulless developments typically dressed up with a bit of parkland, a few commercial galleries and a token cultural institution — the superficial gloss of civilization. As an ideal of urbanism, it is hollow to its core.

Sur la page vous trouverez les photos des differents projets!

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/1 … index.html

Bonne lecture.

Renzo Piano offre une tour transparente au "New York Times"

Entouré par le gratin de la presse, de la politique et des arts, l'architecte italien Renzo Piano, 70 ans, a inauguré, mardi 20 novembre, à New York, le nouveau siège du New York Times, le plus prestigieux quotidien d'Amérique. Une confirmation, plus qu'un baptême : la rédaction est déjà installée dans ce bijou technologique, et Piano semble avoir pris ses habitudes à la cafétéria, au 30e étage du bâtiment[...]

http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0 … 335,0.html

Dezeen.com

Hudson Yards masterplan by Steven Holl
November 26th, 2007

© Steven Holl Architects

Steven Holl Architects have presented a masterplan for Hudson Yards, a large former rail yard beside the Hudson River in Midtown, New York.

Holl drew up the masterplan for Extell Development Company, one of five developers bidding for the project. [...]

Suite de l'article : http://www.dezeen.com/2007/11/26/hudson … #more-7263
PDF de présentation du projet : http://www.extelldev.com/assets/pdf/Hud … 20Info.pdf

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StevenHoll.com

HUDSON YARDS
New York City, NY, United States, 2007

PROGRAM: master plan mixed-use project
CLIENT: Extell Development Company
SITE AREA: 11,300,000
STATUS: competition phase

Steven Holl Architects have designed a cohesive master plan for both the Eastern Rail Yards and Western Rail Yards in Manhattan that is both physically and technologically integrated. Extell Development Company proposes to transform the Eastern Rail Yards and Western Rail Yards into a world-class, mixed-use, vibrant neighborhood that features world class architecture and inspiring public spaces designed by Steven Holl Architects, that is in harmony with the surrounding environment, and that both minimizes interference with LIRR operations and returns considerable financial value to the MTA. This last large undeveloped Midtown Manhattan site provides an unprecedented opportunity to create a new urban paradigm for the 21st century. While offering a high mixed-use density of 12 million square feet; the proposed suspension deck design maximizes public space and creates a porosity and openness for the site from all sides and approaches, connecting Midtown, the Chelsea Arts District, and the convention center with a grand public park open to the Hudson River; and its innovative structural system for spanning over the Rail Yards will minimize the impacts of development on the Caemmerer Yards and allow it to offer more for the right to develop.

http://www.stevenholl.com/project-detai … amp;page=0

STEVEN HOLL ARCHITECTS PRESENTS DESIGN PROPOSAL FOR HUDSON YARDS THAT SETS A 21ST CENTURY URBAN EXAMPLE
21 November 2007

On Sunday, November 18th Steven Holl Architects (SHA) and Extell Development Company presented their master plan for the Eastern Rail Yards and Western Rail Yards (the Hudson Yards) in New York City. Extell Development Company, one of five developers currently bidding for this last large undeveloped site in Midtown, Manhattan, has selected Steven Holl Architects to lead a team of consultants for this project. Setting a new 21st century urban example, SHA and Extell focus on creating a vibrant mixed-use neighborhood with inspiring public space that both minimizes interference with LIRR operations and returns considerable financial value to the MTA. Steven Holl Architects' master plan creates a porosity and openness on all sides of the 11.3 million square foot mixed-use project that connects Midtown, Chelsea arts district and Jacob Javits Center through a grand public park on the Hudson River. [...]

Suite : http://www.stevenholl.com/news-detail.php?id=44

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J'adhère pas des masses. Cet ensemble de tours rapprochées d'égale hauteur, c'est bof....

C'est peut-être à cause de la prédominance du gris mais la vue d'ensemble est terriblement glauque.

Entièrement d'accord, d'autant que la cohérence n'y est pas du tout. Formes angulaires fac a des courbes, 

Je n'aime pas trop ce projet.
Je prefere grandement le premier presenté sur la page  voir le cinquieme (meme si on voit pas grand chose) ci dessous:

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/1 … index.html

Par contre, le parc suspendu...!  
En plus on est à NY, ce qui s'y fait est bien fait.
Bon, c'est un projet.
Sinon, ça devient un peu écolo cette ville, vu le nombre d'arbres à planter à Ground Zero, et le projet de viaduc-jardin down town, et puis ceci.

C'est vrai que l'ensemble paraît assez froid, mais je trouve que c'est le seul projet qui sorte vraiment du lot, raison pour laquelle je n'ai pas jugé utile de poster les quelques rendus des autres projets trouvés ici et là. Il faut dire que c'est aussi le mieux documenté.

Proposed 1,000 foot skyscraper would be Brooklyn's tallest structure

Here's a building that's high on Brooklyn.

Developer Bruce Ratner has plans to build a skyscraper downtown that could eclipse the Williamsburgh Savings Bank, making it Brooklyn's tallest structure.

The City Tech Tower by Italian architect Renzo Piano would rise up to 1,000 feet tall, by some estimates, on Jay St. and include a mix of residential, commercial and office space for New York City College of Technology. [...]

http://www.architectureweek.com/cgi-bin … e_b-1.html

Awsome! Beau projet pour Brooklyn qui renforcerait son CBD (3eme de la ville). Mais bon je serais nostalgique de ne plus voir la Williamsburg Savings Bank comme plus haut buidling de Brooklyn, surtout après sa renovation.
Mais bon ils construivent tellement de condominiums de luxe dans le coin que tot ou tard ils feront des choses plus grandes.
Sinon, cette tour pourrait être non seulement la plus haute de Bklyn, mais la plus haute de Long Island!

Une petite ballade en voiture dans une avenue de New York en vidéo mais surtout en 3D ! :

http://adn.blam.be/papervision/

Belle tour pour Brooklyn 

Silverstein Properties unveil Stern-designed tower at Ground Zero







Silverstein Properties unveiled today a Robert A. M. Stern Architects’ design for a new 912-foot tower at 99 Church Street in Lower Manhattan. The limestone and cast stone building will house a 175 room Fours Season Hotel in the first 22 floors with residential units located above[...]

http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/in … ad_id=1915

Classique, mais classieux.

Robert A.M. Stern Architects

SILVERSTEIN PROPERTIES REVEALS DESIGN OF 99 CHURCH STREET

JANUARY 29, 2008 – Silverstein Properties President and CEO Larry A. Silverstein today unveiled Robert A.M. Stern Architects' design for 99 Church Street, an 80-story hotel and residential tower in Lower Manhattan. Located between Barclay Street and Park Place, the elegant 912-foot tower will be home to a 175-room Four Seasons Hotel with 143 private residences above. The project will also include a public park.

The limestone and cast stone shaft of the tower rises to a dramatic skyline profile of full-floor penthouses and setback terraces. The hotel entrance on Barclay Street leads visitors into four floors of lobbies, lounges, a restaurant (which also has an entrance of its own on Church Street), ballrooms, meeting facilities, spa, fitness center, and pool. A separate entrance and lobby at 30 Park Place serves the residences.

"Our partnership with Four Seasons at 99 Church Street serves as further validation of Downtown's ongoing transformation into a dynamic, sustainable and unparalleled urban community," said Mr. Silverstein. Kathleen Taylor, President and Chief Operating Officer of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, said, "This development, with the combined vision of Silverstein Properties and Robert Stern, promises to be an exciting project as it reinvents the historic downtown district."

"99 Church will counterpoint the glass-and-steel office towers that Larry Silverstein and his organization are building along Greenwich Street, and together these buildings will help Lower Manhattan realize its potential as a great place to live and work. I am proud to be a part of this effort," said Robert A.M. Stern, founder and senior partner of Robert A.M. Stern Architects and dean of the Yale School of Architecture. Silverstein Properties is simultaneously developing three office towers at the World Trade Center.

Yabu Pushelberg is the interior designer for the hotel guest rooms. SLCE Architects is architect-of-record.

Autre rendu :

Brooklyn : Domino Sugar Plant

D'après ce que j'ai cru comprendre, ce projet n'est pas encore approuvé. Il prévoit la construction de plusieurs tours résidentielles, sur le site d'une ancienne sucrerie désaffectée qui devrait être rénovée et intégrée au projet. L'architecte est Rafael Viñoly.


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© Rafael Viñoly Architects

Un article sur la tour de Robert A.M. Stern Architects juste au dessus:

Une tour de plus près de Ground Zero

(12/02/08) Silverstein Properties a dévoilé récemment un projet de Robert A. M. Stern Architects pour un nouveau gratte-ciel de près de 280 mètres de haut qui s'élèvera bientôt dans le ciel de Manhattan.

Le bâtiment en pierre calcaire abritera un hôtel de 175 chambres sur les 22 premiers niveaux, et des habitations au-dessus.  L'entrée de l'hôtel mènera le visiteur vers quatre étages publics comprenant lobbies, lounges, restaurants, salles de réunions, centre de fitness, piscine, etc. Une seconde entrée permettra aux habitants d'accéder directement à leur logement.[...]

http://www.lejournaldelarchitecte.be/pr … ionaux.php

La sucrerie est encore la, je sais pas si elle marche toujours. Ils ont mis une enseigne lumineuse que l'on voit depuis le pont "save domino".

Une photo de NY Times building en fin de construction en janvier

Je pense qu'il y a erreur, il s'agit de la Bank of America tower (BofA) dont la construction va bientôt se terminer.

Le New York Times building est, quant à lui, déjà terminé :


(http://www.brianrose.com/journal/2007/0 … ng_21.html)