BIG has released new renderings of the pair of towers it is building beside New York's High Line, which architect Bjarke Ingels says are shaped out of "mutual courtesy" for one another's views.
The XI development ? also known as The Eleventh ? is currently rising from a full city block between the city's Chelsea neighbourhood and Meatpacking District.
With the Hudson River to the west, and the High Line and the rest of Manhattan unfolding to the east, BIG's primary concern is that the two towers do not block each other's views of either.
Therefore, both are shaped asymmetrically so that they twist out of the way.
"It becomes almost like a dance, or a mutual courtesy, between the two towers," BIG founder Ingels told Dezeen. "Rather than ignore each other, they almost care for each other and enhance each other's situations." BIG's The XI towers are under construction in West Chelsea, New York
Measuring 26 and 36 storeys, approximately 300 and 400 feet (91 and 122 metres), the towers are set to become the tallest buildings in West Chelsea.
The shorter east tower, called X, will contain 87 luxury residences above a hotel by Six Senses Hotel Resorts Spas. A further 149 condominiums will occupy the I tower on the west side, and residents of both will share amenity spaces on the third floor.
The towers are designed akin to the warehouses in the area, with the structure expressed on the facades and large windows filling the gaps between.

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