Green New York Tower by Daniel Libeskind’s Design
March 13th, 2009 - Posted in Architecture Design, Green DesignSponsored Links
Luxury condos for the super-rich can’t be green, because they will inevitably be too big to be green. The latest towering building planned to grace the new york city skyline is one Madison avenue by architect
Daniel Libeskind. the 54-story condo building stands out from the crowd of glass towers by incorporating
a series of ‘sky gardens’ at different parts of the building. the green spaces would be enclosed in cylindrical
glass tubes at the center of the building and cut-aways in the face would open them up to the outside.
the openings also provide the condominiums in that part of the tower with balconies. While the images here
depict a rather daring design, they were made over a year ago and have probably changed dramatically.
however more details on the project can be found in Libeskind’s new monograph ‘counterpoint’.
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March 23rd, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Libeskind would not recognize “green” design if you pointed it out to him. His Imperial War Museum in the UK was cited as having the worst possible energy rating that the measurement system allowed.
He’s only interested in stupid formalism.