In our latest interview, AZoBuild spoke with Mattias Kunz from David Chipperfield Architects about their New York project The Bryant, a finalist for the 2022 International High Rise Award.
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Building study: Bryant Hotel, New York, by David Chipperfield Architects
The purposefully tectonic 32-storey hotel and apartment block, The Bryant, is the practice’s first major project in New York City.
Rob Wilson spoke to associate director Mattias Kunz about the scheme
28 April 2021 By Rob Wilson. Photography by Simon Menges
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The Bryant is a new 32-storey tower on Bryant Park in Midtown Manhattan. It contains a 226-key hotel on the first 13 floors and 57 private residences above, with restaurants, retail and separate entrances at street level. Shared amenities include a terrace for use of residents, hotel guests and the public. Owing to its prominent location, the brief called for a respectful design that adhered to the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission conditions. The façade relates to historic buildings nearby and sports a tectonic grid composition, lending the building a Classical appearance that asserts its identity.
British practice David Chipperfield Architects has realised 11-19 Jane Street, an apartment building in New York with a ruddy-hued facade of brick and coloured concrete.
The new six-storey building, which replaces a parking garage that dated from the 1920s, is located in the city s Greenwich Village neighbourhood.
11-19 Jane Street is in Greenwich Village
To complement the mix of 19th and 20th-century buildings that bracket it, David Chipperfield Architects designed a twist on traditional townhouse facades for 11-19 Jane Street.
At ground level, the block is given a bold and contemporary feel with a wall of red-pigmented concrete. The same red concrete appears on lintels and mullions on the upper levels.