Residential Building 100 11th in New York by Jean Nouvel

In Chelsea on the west edge of Manhattan, a residential tower designed by French architect Jean Nouvel was recently completed. The twenty-three-story building with 72 apartments stands at the corner of 19th Street and West Side Highway and is named “100 11th“. The rounded glass facade facing west and south is composed of 1650 windows. Each glass panel has been mounted on the window profile at an individual angle, creating various types of transparency and light reflection on the outside: a lively and multifaceted texture emerges. Inside the building, the facade also creates extraordinary impressions, as sunlight passes through variously angled and protruding facade elements at different angles, producing different lighting moods throughout the day and depending on the season. In contrast to the transparent southern facade, Nouvel designed a black brick facade facing north and east with small irregular openings, referencing the industrial architecture of the western Chelsea area.

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