The Blue Condo, Bernard Tchumi architects
It happens sometimes that after repeatedly seeing a building, he ended up finding something interesting to the ground on arrival, the detail of the window, or the passage of time and the dirt will go well. Something happens to this building's French architect Bernard Tchumi
The Blue Condominium, or Blue, is a building of 17 floors and 32 departments which are located in the Lower East Side in Manhattan, in the process of gentrification sector after years of marginalization.
This building is part of a series of residential buildings that were erected in the city of New York in recent times in which the architect's name is used as a marketing tool for real estate product. Is this due to the quality of design We offer either of the possibilities of the media as a brand name, comparable to Prada, Gucci or Muji. In this line you can see projects for the island of Calatrava, Jean Nouvel, Shigeru Ban, Herzog & de Meuron, among others).
Unlike the aforementioned buildings, luxury is not a feature in this building. Rather be seen as a cheap building standards for construction of the city and the resources of design used primarily to draw his silhouette in this sector of New York and address the various departments must adapt to this.
Apparently not very different from children of various grade of Santiago, and use up the last square meter salable. What we do is a structure that has not imposed many restrictions for certain games, through its lines and shape of your amosaicada color palette that reflects "the diversity of the community around them and at the same time is fused with the sky (clear).
Blue can be seen entering or exiting the Manhattan Bridge and Williamsburg because it recognizes the monumental building that looks like a hand dolly to lay appeal, health (or firing).
