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First Skyscraper by Herzog & de Meuron Rising in NYC

Switzerland Architecture News - Oct 10, 2008 - 16:02   4496 views

Switzerland–based Herzog & de Meuron completed their first building in New York just last year. That project, the 11-story upscale residential building 40 Bond,features a gate in which graffiti was transformed intothree-dimensional ornament, and rounded green-glass mullions that evokethe cast-iron facades of the city’s industrial buildings.
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