American architect Neil Denari has designed HL23, an apartment building for New York.
Renderings are by Hayes Davidson.
See also our earlier story on Denari’s Alan-Voo House.
Here’s a little bit of info from Denari:
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HL23 is noted theorist Neil Denari’s first freestanding building and quite a special project for New York City in many respects.
The avant garde design will become reality thanks to seven separate one-time exceptions to zoning law by the City of New York’s Department of Planning, and the building is already expected to become a landmark in the heart of the West Chelsea district.
Built to LEED Gold Certification environmental standards, it will be the subject of an entire museum exhibition.
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Posted by Rose Etherington
speechless… I just don’t know what to say!
February 29th, 2008 at 2:26 pmcrazy! i thought it was built up already. amazing renders.
denari’s works are visually impressive.
February 29th, 2008 at 2:29 pmnice one. handsome.
February 29th, 2008 at 3:18 pmnot sure there are enough millionaires left in NYC for yet another *truly* luxury tower.
who buys these anyway?
OMFG!!!! He’s makin Lindy ROY look real bad next door.
February 29th, 2008 at 4:18 pmGreat project.
February 29th, 2008 at 5:01 pmWho knew you could get good things built in NYC?
Congrats to ND and his gang.
not sure this is really an “avant garde design” but it’s a lovely building nonetheless. fine fine work!
February 29th, 2008 at 5:09 pmWonderful! So sleek, clean lines, crisp, wipe clean.
February 29th, 2008 at 5:15 pmPerfect environment for Ad Executives to have high profile wanks in.
That is nice
February 29th, 2008 at 7:08 pmNot sure about making the shower out of blue-cheese though
February 29th, 2008 at 7:14 pmAre these renders???
February 29th, 2008 at 10:05 pmYes they are! Wow.
February 29th, 2008 at 10:06 pmNot a fan. The interior spaces are pretty unexceptional, or am I missing something?
March 1st, 2008 at 12:46 amIs the black coloured building next to it part of the design?
March 1st, 2008 at 2:29 amAmazing renders…
March 1st, 2008 at 2:32 ambottom line:
March 1st, 2008 at 3:35 amit is hot.
stunnnnnnning
March 1st, 2008 at 4:09 ami like this new modernism..
but i wonder what has changed in housing since the Mies van der Rohe lake shore drive apts.??
March 1st, 2008 at 3:05 pmthe black building is high line 519
March 1st, 2008 at 3:06 pmby ROYdesign
don’t think i could live there, but its a stunning building. spetacular rooms!
March 1st, 2008 at 7:50 pmsleek but not that impressive… as with most of is work the renders always look better than the final thing. I hope these super rich clients can afford tilting curtains…
March 2nd, 2008 at 11:49 amHandsome shape,Accentuated structure , Spectacular views from living and bedrooms .also it has good contrast with disgusting facades of neibor buildins.somehow it stands alone.
March 2nd, 2008 at 1:50 pmIt is good to see a proposal for a confident new building in NYC but ……..
I don’t really appreciate the benefit of the overtly expressive structure or an undulating facade in a domestic building. Yes, the panorama and open plan apartments will be stunning and highly desirable, but I’m sure this could have been acieved in a more straightforward and ultimately more urbanisticlly coherent form. Who wants a strangley scaled diagonal strut disturbing the view? And what’s wrong with a bit of enclosure to compensate for the vertiginous expanse of glass?
Anyway I’m sure Hayes Davidson’s clever computer rendering can come up with a few hyper-real alternatives. Keep tapping that mouse and good luck with realising the project.
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:09 pmsimply cool, but a little bit remind me of sejima’s house
March 3rd, 2008 at 1:57 amI want that strange strut
March 3rd, 2008 at 3:06 amLoking really good. I can’t tell from the image if the building has been built or it’s just a CGI. Agree with the Sejima’s resemblance. Exactly my first thought!
March 3rd, 2008 at 2:57 pmwow!!!
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:44 pmI actaully had the privilege of working next to the design team for this project. My firm was lending some of our office space to Denari as a NY base of operations.
I bring this up because I want to highlight the fact that I have seen him and his team work in person. Denari is one of the elite architects working right now and he deserves high praise. His best quality is the fact that he is a great guy and not a dickhead. You wouldn’t know he was a bigshot if you had just met him.
As far as the building form is concerned, it engages the adjacent highline in a great way. The relationship that the high-line visitor has with the project makes brings them to a high state of awreness. The building commands a presence.
There are more projects that will be showing up on the high-line in the next few years that are equally as intriguing.
March 3rd, 2008 at 7:53 pmwhy not show a few floor plans?!
March 4th, 2008 at 12:52 ammm mmm mmmmm!
March 4th, 2008 at 7:36 amNEIL MY BOY!!!
This is nowhere near the architecture of sejima. No clear formal og spatial idea, just a bunch of expensive details and rounded corners on top of each other that make the building look “dynamic” and advanced. This is airport-architecture of housing.
Renderings are impressive tho.
March 4th, 2008 at 11:06 amnow i just need a couple million and i’m set.
March 4th, 2008 at 9:08 pmWhy don´t you create a new Categorie call VIRTUAL ARCHITECTURE ?
March 5th, 2008 at 4:09 pmHow do they have time to play with “pie in-the-sky pretend architecture”? Because they don’t have any clients.
March 5th, 2008 at 8:34 pmI thought these were all photos initially - amazing renders.
Fantastic building as well - really enjoying the dynamic created by the jaunty angles, overhang and the slit down the cladding.
March 6th, 2008 at 12:48 pmThe structure on the side walls is superb - the glass combined with this makes the building seem light and very spacious despite small footprint. Great job.
I was more amazed by the renderings…bloody gorgeous! The whole concept looks great, hope it turns out exactly the way it looks now.
March 6th, 2008 at 3:45 pmQuite a beautiful light weight, floating structure. I could imagine the maintenance of the building to be super costly.
March 12th, 2008 at 7:22 pmimpressive design. nice use of space and functionality.
March 31st, 2008 at 10:53 amquestions: as we head into global warming:
*does the open expanse of glass make it into an oven?
*will it be high on energy bills?
*do the windows open out or does one live with air-conditioning for climate control?
Certainly a tour de force of the designers art but… like living in ones own private air terminal?
May 15th, 2008 at 3:50 pm