Interior Design - January, 2009

Features

Grand Illusions
Developers of the apartment building at 56 Leonard Street in Manhattan admit that they asked for "a global landmark with a New York address." Herzog & De Meuron Architekten, which did Beijing proud with the Bird's Nest Olympic stadium, came up with 60 stories of concrete and glass that somehow recalls Ludwig Mies van der Rohe on the inside and a teetering pile of Jenga blocks outside.

It Took A Village
Flying Business Class
Everything In Its Place
The Zoo Story
What Would Bunshaft Do?