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CASSA / TEN Arquitectos
Renowned mexican architect Enrique Norten (TEN Arquitectos) has been working in NY since a few years ago, with One York already built at SOHO & Tribeca. And with CASSA, his new 43-stories tall residential tower, he joins the city’s skyline.
The project includes 57 luxury residences and 166 hotel rooms, with interiors by Cetra/Ruddy, along with a 5 star restaurant, a spa, a private terrace and lounge, and other additional services.
The tower doesn´t look to find its place at the NY skyline with any “fireworks”, just a rigorous orthogonal volume with a character given by the punctured rhythm of its windows.
More images after the break.
The building and the city
The building as part of the skyline
Back terrace
Back patio, street level
Living room
Kitchen
Bathroom
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I’d like to see some floor plans and sections. With these renders the only thing I can say is: it SEEMS beautiful, but I don’t know if it’s a good project.
Shouldn’t be 2 difficult to make same good plans with this no nonsense shape, but indeed they are the missing for the complete picture.
Personaly I don’t like the exterior, I think the building is to big for a facade this minimalistic. Would get boring fast.
But then again I have never been to New York so perhaps this buildings isn’t that big in comparison. The ’skyline’ render doesn’t really show that aspect very well.
agree
Oh lord but why did they go for such columns in the apartments ? A simple facade like this one could easily be load-bearing. I appreciate the fact the architects didn’t opt for the trendy tower facade design with lot of curves and so on, but they could probably have achieved the same effect without doing a boring one. And once again, I hate 3d photo realistic renderings with designish museum furniture, it just makes me want to apply some poster edges photoshop filter on top of it !
i am not a specialist in construction but it seems to me the building is way too tall to have load-bearing walls, which wouldn’t take up too much of the interior space
What kind of bathroom is this? Would be better not to showing it.
the facade looks too boring for such a building in new york..
it’s a pity for the interiors to have this kind of windows..
don’t see a proper reason for this windows..
not doing the standard modernist glass facade or horizontal window is a good reason enough ;) But indeed in the living room it’s a killer.
Are you also saying that this is good for everywhere else but not enough for NYC? Why would every tower need to be the next step in the competition to nonsense?
This project reminds me of a tower by Jun Aoki in Tokyo.
http://www.aokijun.com/ja/works/068
This project resembles many things. The facade is a grid of squared windows. Try Giorigio Grassi for example.
the facade: very dry, not human, just another example of today’s architecture we have (we must) to live in. totally massive.
renderingS: BATHROOM. yes, would be better not show this (luxury???????). LIVING: when i see already the column and behind and very close the window i would also say: better not show this. why the column is here and not before the massive part? we can not explain this…………….. .
Windows: even i don’t like the masterplan by steven holl’s hybrid design in beijing, but (!) much better windows in proportion and size. this windows are just wrong.