53W53 Condominium

 skyscraper, condominium, postmodern (architecture)

1,050-foot, 82-story structural-expressionist residential building completed in 2018 for Hines Interests with Pontiac Land Group. Designed by Jean Nouvel with interiors by Thierry Despont, it was originally to be called Tower Verre (the French word for glass), and stand 1,250 feet, but was unfortunately shorted by 200 feet in 2009 while still under review by the city. The building's skin contains a faceted exterior of dark-grey steel and glass that tapers to a set of crystalline peaks at the apex of the tower. The angular north and south sides slope at varying angles, with monumental exposed structural bracing creating a diagrid in a seemingly random pattern. The structural forms as actually composed on concrete poured in place. As it rises, the building's north and south facades form three distinct blocks, each ending at a different height, with the center portion extending the highest, to the wedge-shaped top.

The building's lower floors contain three floors of new exhibition space above the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Also formerly known as Tower Verre, the building contains 145 condominium units.

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