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June 14, 2006
40 Bond Street: Part Deux
The De Young masters Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron get a lovely (and deserving) write up in the Financial Times in anticipation of their Bond St project: "Rather significantly, 40 Bond is the Swiss team's first job in New York and it is the city that preoccupies them. "The question," says Herzog, "is how does the condo affect the city? I think it can have a huge effect. Ian has proved with his hotels that he can contribute to the culture of architecture with the creation of a type of hotel that didn't exist before. 40 Bond . . . is a very constrained project, in size and type, but sometimes the less latitude there is, the more freedom there can be. So we need to ask: 'how can you make architecture out of this?' We were interested in stacking two existing typologies: the brownstone town house [with direct access from the street] and the condominium."
Posted by jmarston at June 14, 2006 07:15 PM