56 Leonard Street

56 Leonard Street

The skyscraper by Herzog and de Meuron includes 145 residential condominiums located at the intersection of Church Street and Leonard Street in Tribeca Historic District of downtown Manhattan, at 56 Leonard Street.

This is the first skyscraper to be built by the Swiss team, although they have faced bigger projects (at least in the urban and social realms), so far they have never had the opportunity to experiment with the construction of American excellence, and the best place for its debut is New York City. The cost of the apartments varies between 3.5 to 33 million dollars. Design Architect
Herzog & de Meuron, Basel, Switzerland
Partners: Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Ascan Mergenthaler
Project Architects: Vladimir Pajkic (Associate), Philip Schmerbeck , Mehmet Noyan
Project Team: Zachary Vourlas, Jason Whiteley, Daniela Zimmer, Mark Chan, Simon Filler, Sara Jacinto, Jin Tack Lim, Mark Loughnan (Associate), Jaroslav Mach, Donald Mak, Hugo Moura, Jeremy Purcell, James Richards, Heeri Song, Charles Stone (Associate)Executive Architect
Costas Kondylis and Partners, NYConstruction Management
Hunter Roberts, NY
Site Area: 12,500 square feet

Building Footprint: 12,500 square feet

Building Dimensions
Width: 125 feet
Depth: 100 feet
Height: 830 feet

Gross Floor Area (GF): 425,000 square feet. plus technical, parking and structure

Floors: 57 above (+1 below)

Exterior Materials
Structure: concrete
Facade: glass, stainless steel, aluminium, concrete

Interior Materials:
Lobby: granite floors, absolute granite tile walls, concrete ceilings
Elevators: terrazzo floor, stainless steel mosaic tile walls, polished stainless steel frame.

When I first saw this building I really liked it – it looks almost as if it just fell together by accident or like a game of janga with some of the pieces having been pulled out too far. Its almost as if the building was straight and then got too tall and started to waver. Although the straight and narrow design is pretty common the staggered wavy style at the top I think is very unique. If you are to stick to a common design for a building kind of like this one I think its important to add an extra feature like this one has for it to be successful.