News at starchitect Jean Nouvel‘s condominium MoMA Tower (officially called 53W53) has been relatively quiet since units hit the market just over a year ago. But CityRealty brings us an update from the Billionaires’ Row construction site, where the 1,050-foot-tall, tapered tower is currently getting the first of its intricate, diagrid skin, which the architect once said will resemble blood running the veins with its nighttime lighting. “The irregular structural pattern of crisscrossing beams,” according to CityRealty, creates a curtain wall made of “non-mirrored glass and painted aluminum elements, and along the tower’s mechanical and ventilation areas, a secondary system of mullions […]
News at starchitect Jean Nouvel‘s condominium MoMA Tower (officially called 53W53) has been relatively quiet since units hit the market just over a year ago. But CityRealty brings us an update from the Billionaires’ Row construction site, where the 1,050-foot-tall, tapered tower is currently getting the first of its intricate, diagrid skin, which the architect once said will resemble blood running the veins with its nighttime lighting. “The irregular structural pattern of crisscrossing beams,” according to CityRealty, creates a curtain wall made of “non-mirrored glass and painted aluminum elements, and along the tower’s mechanical and ventilation areas, a secondary system of mullions […]