The new 75-storey building will include not only 120 elite apartments on the upper floors, but also a seven-star hotel with 100 rooms, as well as new MOMA halls with a total area of 4.6 thousand square meters. m (on the 2nd, 4th and 5th floors). These galleries will be an extension of the space of the new building of the museum, built by Yoshio Taniguchi, and he will most likely carry out their project as well.
The restaurant and its foyer will be located below street level, and pedestrians will be able to see them through the all-glass walls and floor of the first floor of the new skyscraper.
Its facades will be lined with a diagonal mesh of steel profiles and concrete supports. This is not only an interesting formal move, but also a reasonable technical solution: bringing the structural supports outward made the floor plans as free as possible. The silhouette of the tower is sharpened, so the areas of the tiers decrease with increasing height. At the very top, residents may feel that there is not enough space between the transparent walls and the massive concrete rod in the center that contains the elevator shaft.
This is Nouvel's third residential building project for Manhattan, with a home at 40 Mercer Street due to close soon, and a 20-story tower opposite Frank Gehry's IAC complex that opened earlier this year.
