NEW YORK | 501 + 515 West 18th St (Lantern House) | 250 FT | 21 FLOORS

Your first pic is… unsettling? I don’t know how else to describe it but the XI combined with this building looks like some sort of building genetic mutation haha.

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Gotta say, the windows were always going to make or break this thing, and they turned out better (i.e. less cartoonishly bubble-shaped) than the renderings made them out to be.

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looks like they are all growing out of the same spot in the ground or something haha. maybe twisty towers look best on their own, not in a cluster of other buildings.

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Odd looking, yet artful and attractive: is how I would describe this building.

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if anything, this is how a highline hugging tower should look. Not just glass, glass, glass like some of them have been.

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Reminds me of bubble wrap.

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great shots all around baronson!

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https://www.instagram.com/p/ByxLsavJhtJ/?igshid=1hf540lzzj6q4

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The dirty film on the glass makes it look like antique windows haha

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Can’t wait for them to get rid of the film

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I really like the quirky appearance of this building: some buildings are simple structures to contain and shelter their inhabitants; other are literal works of art that contain and shelter their inhabitants - this is the latter. I too look forward to the ‘peeling off of the glass film’ - that will be a refreshing site to see.

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This building properly belongs in London. What an astronomical expense it must have been to outfit every unit with its own TARDIS.

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Jean Nouvel’s 100 11th reflected in IAC.

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https://www.instagram.com/openviewnyc/

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So far now I have heard two interesting comparisons; this one I think is a bee hive. The other I heard somewhere in this thread is ‘bubble wrap’ . The bubble wrap comparison wins.

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I agree. I am thinking more insect pod but could not find a good google image.

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Tectonic

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It’s interesting up close and on the High Line

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Looks like I got the photo scoop on the cleaned up and polished windows on this new piece of Architectural eye candy: looks great, and fairly true to the renderings.


Is that foam core board as temporary window blinds?

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