Goodmorning Architlovers!

After getting addicted to the blogsphere with Marketing Wizard, I have decided that it was time to declare my love for architecture by engaging into a new venture... the Architect Wizard blog! Hope to keep this website live and kicking and entertain you with new and fascinating developments that occur around the world... Stay linked!

Friday, March 13, 2009

Development: Nothing Standard about it...







That's why New York is the capital of all cities... It never seezes to amaze its residents, always has something new to its visitors and knows how to work with what it got! In a part of town, the High Line in the Meatpacking district, where any other city would have left it be and forgotten, Andre Balazs, managed to build a luxury hotel. Not only, his opening coincided with the biggest development halt of this century, so all eyes on him, but also his architects - the Polshek Partnership - managed to create a rather "instantly iconic" building compared to the likes of "Le Corbusier and other notable international style buildings, like the locally based Lever House and United Nations". It's presence makes you question if it was always there, with its 13 mm concrete skin covering 28,000 sft, rising from stilts 18 stories above the High Line, a disused elevated rail line that is today one of the city’s hippest parks. The Standard's interiors aren't so bad either... designed by Hollywood set designer Shawn Hausmann and New York based Roman and Williams, they keep a modern simplistic tone, so that nothing can take away the breathtaking views from its guest...

1 comment:

Unknown said...

That is beautiful!

Marilynne

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