The 88-storey skyscraper that architecture firms Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Rockwell Group designed for Manhattan's Hudson Yards development has officially opened.
The 910-foot-tall (277-metre) apartment tower at 15 Hudson Yards is the latest to complete at the vast site on the West Side, set to become a hub of commercial, cultural and residential activity.
Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) designed the towering, curtain-wall skyscraper with Rockwell Group, which was in charge of the interiors.

Speaking to Dezeen at the project's unveiling on 16 January 2019, architect Elizabeth Diller said 15 Hudson Yards marked a major step for her and the firm.
"It was really, really difficult for me, from typical work [like cultural buildings and institutions]," she said. "We have never done a tower or anything above 14 storeys." "We thought, this is not in our wheelhouse, but let's do it," she said. "It's a challenge to work in another mode, for a different type of client, and do something that makes us a little uncomfortable."

Plans for the residential building were drawn up well-after DS+R and Rockwell Group had started designing cultural complex The Shed together in 2008, and so they used the earlier project to inform the design.
The two buildings are nested together and share 15 Hudson Yards' service and freight elevators.
"We decided it could really be an advantage to do both," Diller told Dezeen. "When you have a neighbo...