West 57th Street / BIG

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• Architects

  Bjarke Ingels Group

• Location

  West 57th Street, New York, NY, USA

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Field Condition

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• Partners-in-Charge

  Bjarke Ingels, Thomas Christoffersen

• Project Leader

  Beat Schenk

• Project Architect

  David Brown

• Project Team

  Alessandro Ronfini, Sören Grünert, Maya Shopova, Lauren Turner, Tiago Barros, Tyler Polich, Ivy Hume, Yi Li, Daniel Sundlin, Thomas Fagan, Aaron Hales, Hongyi Jin, Mina Rafiee, Tara Hagan, Rakel Karlsdottir, Celine Jeanne, Aleksander Tokarz, Alessio Valmori, Alvaro Garcia Mendive, Felicia Guldberg, Gabrielle Nadeau, Ho Kyung Lee, Julian Liang, Julianne Gola, Lucian Racovitan, Marcella Martinez, Dominyka Mineikyte, Eivor Davidsen, Gul Ertekin, Maria Nikolova, Minjae Kim, Mitesh Dixit, Nicklas Rasch, Riccardo Mariano, Stanley Lung, Steffan Heath, Thilani Rajarathna, Xu Li, Christoffer Gotfredsen

• Architect of Record

  SLCE Architects

• Landscape Architects

  Starr Whitehouse

• Structural

  Thornton Tomasetti

• MEP

  Dagher Engineering

• Civil

  Langan Engineering & Environmental Services

• Construction Manager

  Hunter Roberts Construction Group

• Transportation

  Philip Habib & Assoc.

• Building Envelope

  Israel Berger & Assoc.

• Marketing

  Nancy Packes

• Vertical Transportation

  Van Deusen & Assoc.

• Acoustical

  Cerami & Assoc.

• Wind

  CPP

• Environmental

  AKRF

• Renderings & Animation

  German Glessner

• Client

  Durst Fetner Residential

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Bjarke Ingels Group has reached the 22nd storey of its first project in the United States, a 32 storey sloped residential tower in New York City that will eventually be home to 750 people. The building is shown in recent photos from Field Condition draped in orange meshing as it nears the final stages of structural construction.

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The building, which was approved in 2013 after a hotly contested debate over affordable housing provision, will feature stunning views of the Hudson River at a reasonable price: developers have agreed to a 35-year contract to control rent for low-income occupants.

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The photos from Field Condition show the building's courtyard and balconies beginning to take shape on the notoriously narrow property. The gentle trademark curve of the structure has revealed itself and will soon be covered in cladding to complete BIG's ambitious design, along with the slim windows and angular balconies displayed in the renderings.

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Bjarke Ingels has also taken to Instagram to celebrate the building's construction, posting photos of its milestones. W57 is set for completion in Spring 2015 and will top off in the coming months.

Courtyard complete

To see how the project will look on completion, see our post on the W57's proposal here.