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In order to make the Leonard Street sculpture installation more expeditious, and to save costs, it was decided to build the precision components such that they could be tightly fit together, with the seams thereby becoming nearly invisible hair line cracks. This on-site seam welding was very laborious and extremely costly. After the seams were welded, they all needed to be ground down, and the seam zones sanded and polished to match the rest of the plate surfaces. Cloud Gate was assembled in Chicago from the finished plate sections and support framework, built at our facility, and then all the joining seams were welded together on site. The Leonard Street sculpture requires equivalent accuracy and precision, but with an added component. (Jonathan Hilburg/ AN)Īs Tribeca Citizen explains in an excerpt from fabricators Performance Structures, Inc. Although the building above was completed in 2016, the bean, which was always intended as part of 56 Leonard (featuring into renderings as far back as 2008) has been repeatedly delayed. Installation proper began in October, and the piece, a bean similar to Cloud Gate but squished below 56 Leonard’s mass, has steadily been arriving in pieces since then. The building is also known as the Jenga tower due to its resemblance to the game. Then local residents opposed to the 60 storey building's imposing facade and proportions put a stop to procedings and work stopped. Builders had laid the foundation to the 60-storey tower at 56 Leonard three years ago. Prep work for the mirrored sculpture began last summer, as the sculpture’s outline was marked out on the concrete plaza below the tower. 56 Leonard Street is a new 60-storey residential tower being constructed in the lower Manhattan neighbourhood of Tribeca in New York, US. After three years of delays and arguments work has just resumed on Herzog & de Meuron's jenga-like tower in tribeca, New York. These large program components register on the exterior as large-scale blocks, cantilevering and shifting according to internal configurations and the desire to capture specific views, which ultimately results in the sculptural expression of the top.Long live the new bean: The long-delayed New York version of Anish Kapoor’s Cloud Gate in Chicago (colloquially known as The Bean) is finally rising at the foot of the Jenga-like Herzog & de Meuron’s (and executive architect Hill West Architects) 56 Leonard in Tribeca. JENGA BUILDING BINOCULARS BUILDING 340 Main Street, Venice, CA 90291 56 Leonard Street, New York, NY 10013 Herzog & de Meuron's glass Jenga building. This expressiveness is driven directly by the requirements of the interior, consisting of ten large-scale penthouses with expansive outdoor spaces and spacious living areas.

The top of any tower is its most visible element and, in keeping with this, the top of 56 Leonard Street is the most expressive part of the project. Aggregated together, these houses-in-the-sky, form a cohesive stack, a vertical neighbourhood, somewhat akin to New York’s specific neighbourhoods with their distinctive mix of proximity and privacy in equal measure. While careful to avoid directly overlooking a neighbouring apartment, these outdoor spaces provide indirect visual links between people – maybe strangers – who share the building.

The strategy of ‘pixelating’ rooms also happens in section, creating a large number of terraces and projecting balconies. 56 Leonard Street: 56 Leonard Street is a stunning 60-story residential condominium tower in TriBeCa designed by Herzog & de Meuron, the architects of the. A resident at downtown Manhattan’s 56 Leonard liked life at the so-called 'Jenga Tower' so much he’s upgraded to a 17 million penthouse.