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Pyramid of Tirana by MVRDV
CategoriesArchitecture

This week BIG completed The Spiral supertall skyscraper in New York

By Zarkon Group,
Pyramid of Tirana by MVRDV

This week on Dezeen, we reported that BIG completed its first supertall skyscraper, a 66-storey commercial high-rise wrapped with a series of stepped terraces.

Located along New York’s High Line, The Spiral reaches 314 metres-high and its footprint reduces towards the top as the ascending terraces cut into the building.

Studio founder Bjarke Ingels described the building as combining “the classic ziggurat silhouette of the premodern skyscraper with the slender proportions and efficient layouts of the modern high-rise.”

Pyramid of Tirana by MVRDV
MVRDV added a stepped roof to the Pyramid of Tirana

Also in architecture news, the Pyramid of Tirana in Albania reopened as a cultural hub with a stepped roof and colourful boxes designed by Dutch architecture studio MVRDV and local studio IRI Architecture.

Originally built in the 1980s as a pyramid-shaped museum dedicated to Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha, the building’s form was retained with sections of the sloping concrete roof kept as a slide.

Piss Soap project by Arthur Guilleminot at Het Nieuwe Instituut's New Store 1.0 pop-up at Dutch Design Week
Customers exchanged urine for soap at a pop-up shop during Dutch Design Week

Dutch Design Week was in full swing this week, with events and exhibitions taking place across Eindhoven including a pop-up shop where customers exchanged urine for soap in a bid to encourage more ethical consumption.

Elsewhere at the festival, design student Willem Zwiers showcased marbled furniture made from salvaged second-hand books and designer Emy Bensdorp exhibited her proposal to clean PFAS “forever chemicals” by firing contaminated soil into bricks.

Photo of engineer Jasper Mallinson wearing the Mecha-morphis device on one arm
Mecha-morphis is a wearable, portable CNC machine

In other design news, product design engineer Jasper Mallinson aimed to bridge the gap between man-made and robotic construction with a lightweight, wearable CNC machine named Mecha-morphis.

Mallinson hopes that in the future, the device will be used on worksites to help realise parametric designs with “superhuman precision”.

Amare in The Hague by NOAHH
Betsky wrote an opinion piece on how Dutch architecture has become “notably boring”

Also this week, American architecture critic Aaron Betsky wrote about his views on the lack of exciting architecture projects built in the Netherlands in recent years.

To Betsky, Dutch architecture has lost the sparkle it once had, comparing OMA’s 1987 Netherlands Dance Theater with the “box festooned with fluted columns” that replaced it (pictured above).

75.9 House by Omer Arbel
A home with fabric-formed concrete pillars turned readers’ heads this week

Popular projects this week included a home in British Columbia with fluted pillars made by pouring concrete into fabric formwork and a Mexican seaside resort with wooden guesthouses raised on stilts.

Our latest lookbooks featured dining rooms with built-in seating and bathrooms where subway tiles lined the walls and surfaces.

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The Spiral by BIG
CategoriesArchitecture

BIG’s first supertall skyscraper reaches completion in New York

By Zarkon Group,
The Spiral by BIG

Architecture studio Bjarke Ingels Group has announced the completion of The Spiral, the studio’s first supertall skyscraper and first commercial high-rise in New York City that features a “Ziggurat silhouette”.

It reaches 1,031 feet (314 metres) into the sky, making it a super tall skyscraper, which is a skyscraper between 300 meters (984 feet) and 600 meters (1,968 feet) tall. Located along the High Line, the 66-storey building gets its moniker from a series of stepped terraces wrapped around its exterior.

The Spiral by BIG
BIG has completed its first supertall skyscraper, in New York City

“The Spiral punctuates the northern end of the High Line, and the linear park appears to carry through into the tower, forming an ascending ribbon of lively green spaces, extending the High Line to the skyline,” said Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) founder Bjarke Ingels.

“[It] combines the classic Ziggurat silhouette of the premodern skyscraper with the slender proportions and efficient layouts of the modern high-rise.”

Stepped terraces wrapped around a skyscrapers exterior
It is located at the north end of the High Line in Manhattan’s Hudson Yards neighbourhood

On its lower levels, the building features glazed, recessed openings at the street-level lobby and office spaces above.

As they move upward along the building, the openings shift into terraces populated with “a landscape that has never been installed at or above 300 feet elevation in New York City”, according to the team.

An intersection in NYC
Stepped terraces create a spiral pattern that spans the exterior

“The Spiral ensures that every floor of the tower opens up to the outdoors, creating hanging gardens and cascading atria that connect the open floor plates from the ground floor to the summit into a single uninterrupted workspace,” said Ingels.

“The string of terraces wrapping around the building expands the daily life of the tenants to the outside air and light.”

“As the trees and grasses, flowers and vines have taken root over the last two summers, The Spiral is slowly becoming an ascending ribbon of green wrapping around the entire silhouette of the tower–like a 1,000-foot-tall (304 metres) vine at the scale of the city’s skyline.”

A lobby with large glazed opening
The planted landscape responds to environmental conditions

The stepped terraces slowly cut into the building’s floor plates as they ascend, reducing the overall volume of the tower towards its top.

The outdoor spaces created by the terraces total 13,000 square feet (1,207 square metres) and are populated with a mixture of drought and wind-resistant plant species native to the American prairie, shrubbery and trees that will bloom in the wintertime, and trellises adorned with English and Boston Ivy.

The plant arrangement differs depending on orientation to the sun and high-velocity winds. A water management system will sequester rainwater for redistribution through the landscape.

The 2.8 million-square-foot (260,128 square metres) structure will host offices and a private event space on the uppermost floor.

An aerial view of terraces
The building spans 66 storeys and is BIG’s first completed high-rise commercial building in New York City

Some floors contain double-height amenity spaces and “the option to connect adjacent floors via a grand staircase”,  as an alternative to elevators and to encourage interaction amongst colleagues.

The lobby contains cladding in “seven different metals”, meant as a homage to the industrial heritage of the surrounding Hudson Yards neighbourhood, while its stepped design nods to other Manhattan skyscrapers like the Empire State Building and Rockefeller Center.

A tree on a terrace overlooking NYC
It will hold offices and event spaces

The Spiral was developed by Tishman Speyer and built by Turner. BIG collaborated with Adamson Associates and structural engineer WSP Cantor Seinuk on its design.

The team is pursuing LEED Silver certification for the building.

BIG unveiled the design for The Spiral in 2016 to mixed reviews by Dezeen commenters. Elsewhere in New York, the studio has released images for mixed-use skyscrapers along the Williamsburg waterfront.

The photography is by Laurian Ghinițoiu.



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Steinway tower interiors with modern furniture and view of central park
CategoriesInterior Design

Studio Sofield completes interiors on world’s skinniest supertall skyscraper

By Zarkon Group,
Steinway tower interiors with modern furniture and view of central park

Studio Sofield has completed the interiors of 111 West 57th Street, also known as Steinway Tower – a supertall skyscraper designed by SHoP Architects in New York City.

The interiors mark the full completion of the 1,428-foot-tall (435-metre) skyscraper, which is the second tallest in the Western Hemisphere, and the skinniest in the world with a height-to-width ratio of 24:1.

Steinway tower interiors with modern furniture and view of central park
Studio Sofield completed interiors for Steinway Tower in Manhattan

Sited on a street bordering Central Park in Midtown that has come to be known as Billionaire’s Row, the skyscraper has views looking north and south.

New York-based Studio Sofield designed the interiors for the skyscraper as well as the adjacent Steinway Hall, which is connected to the tower.

The 91-storey skyscraper has 46 residences, with an additional 14 held in Steinway Hall, as well as a variety of amenities, and was developed by JDS Development Group and Property Markets Group.

Steinway Tower lobby inteirors with pianos
The design included interiors for the lobby spaces that connect the tower and Steinway Hall

“With 111 West 57th Street, I set out to create interior architecture that was unmistakably and quintessentially New York,” said Studio Sofield founder William Sofield.

“While celebrating the vibrancy of today, I am a historian by nature and sought to honor and evoke the splendor of our city’s gilded age.”

Steinway Tower lobby interiors gilded frames
Studio Sofield wanted the public interiors to reflect the “gilded age” of New York City

Interiors designed by Sofield includes the “block-long lobby sequence” that connects the two aspects of the tower. Here, the studio restored the original flooring of the Steinway Hall and used limestone, marble, blackened steel and velvet accents.

Murals in bas-reliefs of gold and silver leaves depict architectural landmarks of New York, and elephants were depicted elephants roaming through the city as a”tribute to the history of pianos”.

Steinway Hall swimming poool
The swimming pool room has full-height windows

Another room in the lobby sequence was outfitted with bronze mirror cladding that leads to a “domed salon” lined with banquet seating.

On 58th street, a residence entrance featuring a granite porte-cochere with grillwork doors inspired by “the bronze filigree on the building’s exterior”.

Steinway hall room
Steinway Hall was renovated using themes from the original building

The bar area and the swimming pool are also in the hall structure. According to the studio, the bar was based on the “legendary King Cole Bar with its chic bar” with an ornamental balcony and skylights that further the material references to the original building.

Elevator vestibules for the tower were completed using custom-made doors by artist Nancy Lorenz. The swimming pool is 82 feet long (25 metres) and is housed in a double-height room with floor-to-ceiling windows.

In the skyscraper, the residences each occupy at least a single floor. Each home has a central room where the views to the north and south are prioritised, and these rooms lead to a “signature great hall, which often spans the full width of the tower,” according to the studio.

Grey oak and macauba stone were used for the flooring and nine-foot-tall doors separate the room.

Steinway Skyscraper interiors
The skyscraper’s residences have wooden and stone floor

Hardware for the doors as well as other features like the freestanding bathtubs and the fixtures were sourced from long-standing US manufacturers such as PE Guerin, which, according to the studio, is the “country’s oldest architectural hardware firm”.

Other supertall skyscrapers – defined as one between 984 and 1,969 feet (300 and 600 metres) – designed by SHoP Architects include the Brooklyn Tower in Downtown Brooklyn, which is nearing its way to completion, having topped out earlier this year.

Billionare’s Row – the name for the luxury skyscrapers on 57th Street near Central Park in Manhattan, continues to see new developments, with New York studio ODA announcing the construction of a “fractal” skyscraper on the street.

The interior photography is by Adrian Gaut with exterior photography by David Sundberg.

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