Yesterday Archinect had a photograph featured on their website that really caught my eye, but couldn't find any more information on it, it was a 3D rendering of a (another) new development by Jean Nouvel in New York. Today the web has exploded with info on this project. Dezeen has an incredibly informative feature about it, and fellow Blogger John Hill of Archidose has a post on it as well.
Jean Nouvel's very successful 40 Mercer Residences in SoHo, catapulted him to his 100 11th Ave. project in Chelsea, next to Gehry's building, making him the most bankable of contemporary architects currently designing in New York City. This new project not only is on a site next to the MoMA (Hines development actually bought the site from MoMA), but is of 75 stories, making it the same height of the Chrysler Building, and in its program is included about 50,000 square feet (5,000 sq mt) of exhibition space on three floors for the Museum next door.
The project is called 53 West 53rd and aside from the MoMA's exhibition space it will include a 100 room Hotel and 120 high end residential condos with commercial spaces at ground level.
Sources:
Dezeen
Atelier Jean Nouvel
A Daily Dose of Architecture
Archinect
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