Shigeru Ban Does New York Condos
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 09.21.07
We love New York, we love opening windows and good ventilation, and we love Shigeru Ban. Yet somehow we are not so sure about putting them all together like this. "The Metal Shutter Houses" have walls that lift up completely out of the way, as well as "perforated metal shutters that operate exactly like the rolling grates of the Chelsea galleries and Korean delis that inspired them."
While it does overlook the Hudson, the view is across ten lanes of the West Side Highway.
Curbed says: here are some details: 11-stories and nine duplexes ranging from 1,950sqft to a 3,180sqft penthouse with three terraces. Occupancy is expected in late 2008. Pricing? If you have to ask...
::Metal Shutter Houses via :;New York Times
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Hahaha! The amount of car exhaust that'll fill these units will make each resident a defacto toll collector at the Holland Tunnel: without the civil servant benifts. :D
I have to think that these places would just be really dusty in no time at all with all that traffic passing by.
I live on a residential street that gets a mid to high amount of traffic. In the summer, when our windows are open, it gets dusty on the window sills quickly and presumably throughout the rest of the house.
Imagine how dusty it would be with that size of an opening and 10 lanes of traffic...