Name-Brand Designs for the City’s Skyline

The HL23 tower, planned for a site on 23rd Street in Chelsea

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The Glass House building at Spring and Washington Streets was designed by Annabel Selldorf and Philip Johnson

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A rendering of a building on Mercer Street designed by Jean Nouvel

Bold and formally elaborate — some would say showy — these buildings reflect a mix of attitudes and styles that the city has never seen

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Herzog & De Meuron designed 40 Bond Street which was developed by Ian Schrager

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The muscular forms of Frank Gehry’s 74-story Beekman Street Tower, being built near City Hall

Yet its crinkled stainless steel is a wonder; as light flickers across the facade, it will seem to dissolve into rivulets of water

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A rendering for Tower Verre, Jean Nouvel’s 75-story condominium in Midtown Manhattan

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Bernard Tschumi's Blue Building apartments on the Lower East Side

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Apartments on 48 Bond Street

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Julian Schnabel's building on West 11th Street

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Jean Nouvel's building at 40 Mercer Street

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