BLUE RICHIES ! New York City
Like the tower sez ; RICHIES ! ! !
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16-story condominium known as BLUE
photo shot ; April 25, 2007
Delancey Street
New York, NY
Designed by Bernard Tschumi Architects;
www.lowermanhattan.info/construction/project_updates/105_...
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brooklyngirl (62 months ago | reply)
hilarious juxtaposition
Betty Blade (62 months ago | reply)
all roads lead to Rome...
Runs With Scissors (58 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Crosswalks, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
Cairlinn (33 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Blue Architecture, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
jacquesduteal [deleted] (12 months ago | reply)
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A different view ...
and Description by
© Bernard Tschumi Architects
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BLUE Residental Tower
New York, 2004-2007
The building's base occupies a lot zoned for residential use and cantilevers over an existing building designated for commercial use. The slightly angled walls facing the street and rear yard artfully negotiate the varying setback rules, crossing the line between the commercial and residential zoning districts.
The sloped top of the building integrates the zoning district's two sky exposure plane requirements. The cantilever over the commercial space on the southern portion of the building is also angled from base to top, thus enlarging the size of the units
located on the upper floors,
which have stunning views of Lower Manhattan from river to river.
This strategy also maximizes the amount of allowable residential square footage. The pixelated facades reflect both the internal arrangement of spaces
and the multi-faceted character of the neighborhood below.
The building consists of 32 residences ranging from one- and two-bedroom units near the base to full-floor units with large terraces higher up, crowned by a duplex penthouse.
The sloped window wall is a feature of many units. All units have full-height windows in the living and dining rooms. The apartments are outfitted with sustainable materials, including bamboo floors and wall panels, palm flooring, and river-pebble bathroom tiles.
~ " BLUE " also recycles unused space on top of a neighboring commercial structure as an urban garden that provides communal space for residents and guests and broad views of the Williamsburg Bridge.
www.tschumi.com/projects/6/
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www.tschumi.com/projects/6/
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jacquesduteal [deleted] (12 months ago | reply)
For my own reasons....
I found this by © Bernard Tschumi Architects
very interesting.
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MoMA Acquires Jean Tschumi Drawings
20 January 2010
Categories: Announcements
The works on paper cover the range of Jean Tschumi’s brief but fascinating career, from his early work while a student at Paris’s Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts to his late masterpiece, the Nestlé Headquarters (1956-1960) in Vevey, Switzerland, for which he won the Reynolds Prize in 1960.
All forty-three drawings were published in the recent monograph Jean Tschumi: Architecture at Full Scale by Jacques Gubler (Skira and Rizzoli International Publishers), which traces Tschumi’s multifaceted production as an architect, urban planner, and furniture designer who often integrated different dimensions of creative design into his individual works.
www.tschumi.com/news/9/
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Rem Koolhaas and Bernard Tschumi in Conversation
18 May 2011
Bernard Tschumi speaks in conversation with Rem Koolhaas at his alma-mater,
the ETH in Zurich,
on recent developments in architecture, concepts and theory vs. practice, and globalization.
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www.tschumi.com/news/
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From Wikipedia .org / wik
"Theory "
1960s-70s
Re: -- Throughout his career as an architect, theorist, and academic,
Bernard Tschumi's work has reevaluated architecture's role in the practice of personal
and political freedom.
- Since the 1970s, Tschumi has argued that there is no fixed relationship between architectural form and the events that take place within it. The ethical and political imperatives that inform his work emphasize the establishment of a proactive architecture which non-hierarchically engages balances of power through programmatic and spatial devices.
- In Tschumi's theory.... architecture's role is not to express an extant social structure,
but to function as a tool for questioning that structure and revising it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Tschumi
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...and I appreciate reading this description from 2002
" World Trade Center Design Diary "
New York, 2002
© Bernard Tschumi Architects
September 11th, 2001 was an attack not only on the World Trade Center or even America, but on the physical fabric of the city itself.
To address 9/11 and the resulting tragedy requires that,
rather than simply trying to rebuild memories of the past
or attempting to reconcile the demands of local interest groups
and parties with financial takes in the site,
we interrogate the very idea of the future city.
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World Trade Center Design Diary
New York, 2002
The Tri-Towers project is not about providing images or "designs." Architects must first determine the context in which they operate. They must try to design the conditions before conditioning the design.
The Tri-Towers similarly is not a project in the conventional sense, but rather, an attempt to generate a set of questions about the city of the 21st century. The building is intended to be an urban condenser, combining high density and "mixity" of multiple programs. The Tri-Towers carry no symbolism except for their presence.
© Bernard Tschumi Architects
Credits / Program: Cultural, Master Plan, Offices, Theoretical
World Trade Center Design Diary
New York, 2002
www.tschumi.com/projects/41/#
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