Comments on: 56 Leonard Street, New York / Herzog & de Meuron

By: Lorenzo

Lorenzo — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:39:59 +0000

I discovered why I didnt saw its construction site: everything’s stopped due finacial problems :D

By: oscar falcón lara

oscar falcón lara — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:51:30 +0000

This building will definitely be a great sight once it is finished. I can imagine any of those higher apartments being used as a set for a movie or a tv show. Beckons a thought or two.

By: Miao Zhang

Miao Zhang — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:15:39 +0000

That’s nice.I really like it.Meaybe the bean at the first floor is little strang.How does it conect with the inverianment?

By: Lorenzo

Lorenzo — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:23:07 +0000

Yesterday I was near the site but I dont saw anything that remember a constuction site. Are they two Leonard Street in New York or what?

By: ygogolak

ygogolak — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:55:47 +0000

So every building that is done now has to credit the person who had a similar idea? It’s all been done before to some extent. I didn’t know Rudolph was the first of his kind to do such work, and to imply that shows a lack of “knowledge of architectural history, theory, and reason”.

By: moun

moun — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:35:13 +0000

I just wanna know, what’s on the ground floor? A bean? A potato? Why? So strange for them to put such a sculpture there.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:29:26 +0000

@ Terry and Paul

Paul, stylistically I cna understand your reference to Rudolph, however architecturally, there’s not that much crossover as this project is in situ, not pre fabricated. Instead of the G Arts center on prozac [somehow you mean it is happier?!] I’d say this project is more like the Farnsworth house on Viagra.

Terry,

H&dM are one of the most important offices in the world, their work is undeniably thoughtful, engaging and elegantly detailed. They won the Pritzker for Pete’s sake! I’m pretty sure they know about the Dean of Yale. To say that H&dM doesn’t know or care about a pillar of late modernism is kind of like saying Carmelo Anthony never heard of Michael Jordan.
What a ridiculous statement.

By: thanhtran Architect

thanhtran Architect — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:37:20 +0000

really great!, 1 is the game’s creative, is not to say when said architects is the brain of science, the soul of poetry and sometimes the hands of the artist ….

By: thanhtran Architect

thanhtran Architect — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:33:18 +0000

really great!, 1 is the game’s creative, is not to say when ngoa architects is the brain of science, the soul of poetry and sometimes the hands of the artist ….

By: Terry Glenn Phipps

Terry Glenn Phipps — Sun, 03 May 2009 12:43:16 +0000

Mr. Garrett it seems really doubtful to me that Herzog & DeMeuron have the faintest idea who Paul Rudolph was or exactly whom they are cribbing ideas from. Luckily for New York this building happens to make sense. It could just as easily have not. These days asking for knowledge of architectural history, theory, and reason is simply asking too much.

Terry Glenn Phipps