Five-fixture master bath of Travertine and marble with radiant heated floors. Custom interiors by Herzog & de Meuron featuring the Corian counter tops, top of the line appliances including Sub-Zero refrigerator, Miele oven and cook top with fully-vented hood & Miele dishwasher. The soaring 11 ceilings & the floor-to-ceiling windows provide great sunlight and stunning views. The Northern exposure and private outdoor space offer an immersive view of the iconic Tribeca neighborhood. This Unit 19AE is the HIGHEST floor One Bedroom apartment in the building. It is located at Tribeca downtown of NYC. Furthermore, no two floor plates are the same, giving those who will live in this project their own unique home characterized by distinct moments of individuality within the overall stack.FOR SALE ONLY! 56 Leonard Street is the architectural masterpiece by Herzog & de Meuron. Together these different strategies – considering the tower from the inside-out, responding to local scales, and maximizing the potential of local construction systems – produce a building where only five out of the 145 apartments are repeated. This unusual feature for high-rise buildings also allows occupants to directly control fresh air intake. The system of staggering, setbacks and pixelation is further animated through operable windows in every second- or third- façade unit. Instead, exposed horizontal concrete slabs register the floor-by-floor stacking of the construction process and exposed in-situ concrete columns allow the scale of the structural forces at work to be experienced from within the interior. The building also shows its structural ‘bones’ and does not hide the method of its fabrication underneath layers of cladding. As a volume, the building has extreme proportions – at the very edge of what is structurally possible – and given its relatively small footprint, is exceptionally tall and slender. The overall appearance of the tower is very much a result of accepting and pushing to the limit simple and familiar local methods of construction. By grouping together ‘pixels’ of various sizes, including lobby, parking decks and housing amenities, the tower reflects and incorporates each of these neighbourhood scales. This is a part of New York characterized by a wide range of building scales – from small townhouses to large industrial blocks and the ubiquitous high-rise buildings of downtown. Meanwhile, the base of the tower responds to the special character of Tribeca. These large program components register on the exterior as large-scale blocks, cantilevering and shifting according to internal configurations and the desire to capture specific views, which ultimately results in the sculptural expression of the top. This expressiveness is driven directly by the requirements of the interior, consisting of ten large-scale penthouses with expansive outdoor spaces and spacious living areas. The top of any tower is its most visible element and, in keeping with this, the top of 56 Leonard Street is the most expressive part of the project. Aggregated together, these houses-in-the-sky, form a cohesive stack, a vertical neighbourhood, somewhat akin to New York’s specific neighbourhoods with their distinctive mix of proximity and privacy in equal measure. While careful to avoid directly overlooking a neighbouring apartment, these outdoor spaces provide indirect visual links between people – maybe strangers – who share the building. The strategy of ‘pixelating’ rooms also happens in section, creating a large number of terraces and projecting balconies. From the interior the experience of these pixels is like stepping into a series of large bay-windows. These pixels come together to directly inform the volume and to shape the outside of the tower. The project began with individual rooms, treating them as “pixels” grouped together on a floor-by-floor basis. To break-up the tendency towards repetition and anonymity in high-rise buildings, 56 Leonard Street was developed from the inside-out. In-between, the staggering and variation in the middle-levels is more controlled and subtle, like in a column shaft. At the base of the tower, the stack reacts to the scale and specific local conditions on the street, while the top staggers and undulates to merge with the sky. A careful investigation of local construction methods revealed the possibility of shifting and varying floor-slabs to create corners, cantilevers and balconies – all welcome strategies for providing individual and different conditions in each apartment. The project is conceived as a stack of individual houses, where each house is unique and identifiable within the overall stack.
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