56 Leonard Street by Herzog & de Meuron: the video

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A few months ago we featured an amazing skyscraper by Herzog & de Meuron, that will have a great impact in  the skyline of . I’m very intrigued by the final result of this project, as it develops a pixelated unit composition that many have propossed, but no one has built.

Now, a friend sent me this amazing video to market the building, done by Tronic Studios. The video reveals some portions of the structure of this building, such as beams that distribute the vertical charges of this particular typology.

We’ll see…

 
 
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Steven says:

Archinect has an interview with Tronic including this video project and a bunch of their other work:
http://archinect.com/features/article.php?id=81427_0_23_0_M

 
# November 20, 2008 at 10:57
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João says:

ok, ok… even if you didn’t like the building, you have to agree that the video is really nice… but I also liked the building…

 
# November 21, 2008 at 07:53
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gim says:

Not a skyscraper as such, but Moshe Safdie had a go at building the pixelated unit composition, and only a pip over 40 years ago…

 
# November 25, 2008 at 12:23
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gim says:

oh and a link…
http://www.habitat67.com/home.html

 
# November 25, 2008 at 12:24
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Mohammad Ataullah says:

Amazing Animation and building.

 
# January 6, 2009 at 21:49
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2:27 PM Nov 21st

vee Herzog & de Meuron yarattı tadında olmuş bu http://t.co/HmEDp7K via @archdaily

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