04.23.2010
Once Upon a Condo
With buyer confidence shaken, values re-calibrated, and the real money still in hiding, New York's newest luxury condominiums might seem like jewel-crested dinosaurs -- big, weirdly gorgeous, and already extinct. Or are they? AN previews three architecturally daring condos and wonders if they are the last of their kind or breakthroughs in urbanely adventurous design.
The sinuous facade of KPF's One Jackson Square.
Paul Rivera/Archphoto
100 11TH AVENUE
Ateliers Jean Nouvel

David Sundberg/Esto
ONE JACKSON SQUARE
Kohn Pedersen Fox

Paul Rivera/Archphoto
TOREN
SOM

Michael Weinstein