New York architect Thomas Juul-Hansen has completed the Sutton Tower skyscraper in New York, which has limestone facades and a champagne-coloured stainless steel crown.
Called Sutton Tower, the residential skyscraper rises 850 feet (259 metres) on Manhattan's East Side, near the Queensboro Bridge on 58th Street.
It is the tallest structure completed by Denmark-born architect Juul-Hansen, who said that the building is the "tallest residential building on Manhattan's East Side".
Thomas Juul-Hansen has used limestone to clad a skyscraper in Manhattan
Juul-Hansen said that he intended the tower to walk the line between the "postmodern and classic", which he achieved by combining materials like Bavarian limestone ? which lines the entirety of the facade ? and a relatively simple, rectilinear form. "It's modern, as far as the form and it's quite unadorned, but there is an element of classicism and early Art Deco to it," he told Dezeen, adding that he wanted to make sure the building did not seem overtly historical
"I'm not very interested in fake historicism," he added.
There are three apartments max per floor. Photo by Kate Glicksberg
In order to achieve this, the structure has a limestone facade at ground level with black-metal framed windows and a canopy, so that the first six-storeys appear to meld more naturally with the surrounding mid-rise structures.
After six storeys, there is a set back and the tower begins. The glass windows wid...