Jean Nouvel: 100 11th Avenue / Housing in New York
Began the construction of 100 11th Avenue, the new project of the French architect Jean Nouvel, with Beyer Blinder Belle. A 23-story tower described by the former as' a machine vision ', located at the intersection of 19th Street to West Side Highway, along the Hudson.
The building will have the most advanced curtain wall technology and built in New York, a mosaic composed of approximately 1700 panels of stained glass, all different sizes.
Among the features of the building, highlighting its semi-enclosed atrium, which houses a garden made up of suspended trees and ornamental plants, that appear to float in the air.
Among the features of the building, highlighting its semi-enclosed atrium, which houses a garden made up of suspended trees and ornamental plants, that appear to float in the air.
The main facade, the south, is formed by a curtain wall made of about 1647 stained glass panels, which are located within a framework of steel (MegaPanel) between 11 and 16 feet high (3.35 and 4.88 m) by 37 feet high (11.28 meters). Within each frame, the glasses have a different slope and colors come from the windows of the Gothic Cathedral of Sainte-Chapelle de Paris, built in the thirteenth century.
