Comments on: 56 Leonard Street by Herzog & de Meuron

By: j85_vienna

j85_vienna — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:57:26 +0000

i like the renderings but i can barely see the difference between this tower and oma’s new tower in singapore? so i wouldnt exactly call it innovative..

http://www.oma.eu/index.php?option=com_projects&view=project&id=1156&Itemid=10

By: Warren_NY

Warren_NY — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:25:15 +0000

Cheungvogl and Herzog and De Meuron show two truely beautiful contributions to New York.
The only way they show any simularity is: they are both beautiful.

By: Pierre Sinsua

Pierre Sinsua — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:05:52 +0000

makes the surrounding buildings look like prison architect, brilliant although kapoor contribution looks like the building had just done a …… nevermind

By: Christoph Vogl

Christoph Vogl — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:49:44 +0000

Dear Chandelier,
Dear Jack,

Thank you for the appreciation of our design!
We see our design and the design of Herzog & de Meuron as completely independent from each other, as both react separately and reasonably in their own way, depending on requirements, brief and aim for approach, as obviously very different situations.
Reading through the ongoing controversial discussion, we think, as designers we can agree, that almost none of our ideas is born out of the innocence of pure innovation, but driven from the ‘good ideas’, which were implemented into our thinking (as reference to Rudolph) by seeing and realizing good ideas. Cheungvogl formulated the sentence “Yesterdays thought is the ground of today’s thought to grow from.” some time ago. Rudolph, OMA and many others might have explored the idea of the “pixilated high rise” before – nevertheless, it lacks of the successful realization of this beautiful concept until today – and if HDMs’ design can be described as ’pixilated high rise’, we would be very happy, to see this beautiful project being realized.
We in cheungvogl believe that HDMs’ design is a beautiful, functional form-follows-function design, which successfully stands against many form-driven high rise proposals, these days.
Our own project, Alexander House NY, sets itself into the given surrounding in a very different way. We respect adjacent context and regulations as environmental studies, to organize our project in a very integrative way, as it is set in the situation as a mid rise building in a mid rise surrounding – context and integration are very much different from the bespoke project.
Nevertheless, we follow the discussion with deepest interest, as we as cheungvogl appreciate very much the democratic and inspirational interchange on dezeen.com.

Christoph Vogl, cheungvogl

By: jack

jack — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:54:48 +0000

completly agree – cheungvogl rock!

By: chandelier

chandelier — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:03:55 +0000

i think, cheungvogl designed this a few hours before hdm – not that high, but much cooler!

http://cheungvogl.com/alexander_house_ny.htm

By: Manuj D Sharma

Manuj D Sharma — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:45:32 +0000

Looks good. Bit tessellic & cluttered!

By: Ezandkitty

Ezandkitty — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:23:29 +0000

Nobody seem to notice that the “silver bean” sculpture is almost an exact replica of the one in Chicago, so boring!. The building totally looks like a slum building in Kowloon…only way taller, big deal. This really shows no intelligent design or truly forward thinking, just marbelized WOW factor…again, boring!

By: Michael Barrick

Michael Barrick — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:15:41 +0000

Habitat ‘67

Welcome to the cutting edge of 40 years ago.

By: Yannick

Yannick — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:40:53 +0000

Disappointing, looks like it should be in Dubai instead. New York is the birth of the “skyscraper” where’s the logical progression in this scheme? Check the old books on planning guidelines for the new york skyscraper, had very cool designs and drawings.