Where's Nouvel"
Today a rendering of Zaha Hadid Architects' design for the redesign of Kushner Companies' 666 Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan has been making its rounds in many of the usual places. The 1,400-foot-tall tower, if built, would site prominently on Fifth Avenue between 52nd and 53rd Streets, about a half-block from the Museum of Modern Art.
Which made me wonder: Where is Jean Nouvel's 53W53 in the rendering" Now under construction, the 1,050-foot-tall skyscraper will tower over Cesar Pelli's Museum Tower, which is visible to the right of ZHA's tower. So in the interest in seeing how these two supertalls designed by celebrity architects would interact, I Photoshopped a side elevation of Nouvel's tower into ZHA's rendering:
Now, anybody know the mystery of the magic park that appears in front of ZHA's tower"
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