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架构师提供的文本描述。这座高楼是当代城市的重要组成部分.然而，塔楼的定义仅仅取决于它们的高度，作为一种类型，它们已经成为匿名的。典型的住宅楼，虽然成功地聚集了生活单元，但往往无法改善居住环境。单位在简单挤压形状中的倍增产生重复和匿名结构，没有额外的好处或建筑质量，尽管他们达到难以置信的密度。对于那些生活在这些结构中的人来说，这种相似和重复的经历可能会相对令人不快。56伦纳德街反对这种匿名性和重复性，这种重复源自于最近的许多高塔。它的雄心壮志是，尽管它的规模很大，但它的性格是个人的、个人的，甚至是亲密的。

Text description provided by the architects. The high-rise tower is an important ingredient within the contemporary city. However, towers have come to be defined solely by their height and, as a type, they have become anonymous. Typical residential towers, while successful in aggregating the living unit, often fail to improve upon the living environment. The multiplication of units within simple extruded shapes produces repetitive and anonymous structures with no extra benefits or architectural qualities despite the incredible densities they achieve. For those who live in these structures, this experience of sameness and repetition can be relatively unpleasant. 56 Leonard Street acts against this anonymity and repetitiveness, emanating from so many towers of the recent past. Its ambition is to achieve, despite its size, a character that is individual and personal, perhaps even intimate.

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该项目被认为是一堆单独的房屋，其中每栋房子是独特的，在整个堆栈中可以识别。一项对当地建筑方法的仔细研究揭示了转换和改变楼板的可能性-建造角落、悬臂和阳台的楼板-所有这些都是为每个公寓提供个别和不同条件的受欢迎的策略。在塔的底部，堆叠与街道上的规模和特定的当地条件相反应，而顶部则摇摇晃晃，起伏不定，与天空融为一体。中间，中间层的颠簸和变化更加可控和微妙，就像在圆柱井中一样。

The project is conceived as a stack of individual houses, where each house is unique and identifiable within the overall stack. A careful investigation of local construction methods revealed the possibility of shifting and varying floor-slabs to create corners, cantilevers and balconies – all welcome strategies for providing individual and different conditions in each apartment. At the base of the tower, the stack reacts to the scale and specific local conditions on the street, while the top staggers and undulates to merge with the sky. In-between, the staggering and variation in the middle-levels is more controlled and subtle, like in a column shaft.

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为了打破高层建筑中重复和匿名的倾向，莱纳德街56号从内向外发展。这个项目从单独的房间开始，把它们当作“像素”，逐层地组合在一起。这些像素聚集在一起，直接通知音量和塑造塔的外部。从内部看，这些像素的体验就像是踏进了一系列的大窗台。

To break-up the tendency towards repetition and anonymity in high-rise buildings, 56 Leonard Street was developed from the inside-out. The project began with individual rooms, treating them as “pixels” grouped together on a floor-by-floor basis. These pixels come together to directly inform the volume and to shape the outside of the tower. From the interior the experience of these pixels is like stepping into a series of large bay-windows.

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‘像素化’房间的策略也发生在部分，创造了大量的露台和突出阳台。虽然小心避免直接俯瞰附近的公寓，这些室外空间提供了间接的视觉联系，人们-也许是陌生人-共同居住。聚集在一起，这些房子在天空中，形成了一个凝聚力的堆叠，一个垂直的邻里，有点类似于纽约的特定社区，其独特的结合，接近和隐私在同等程度上。

The strategy of ‘pixelating’ rooms also happens in section, creating a large number of terraces and projecting balconies. While careful to avoid directly overlooking a neighbouring apartment, these outdoor spaces provide indirect visual links between people – maybe strangers – who share the building. Aggregated together, these houses-in-the-sky, form a cohesive stack, a vertical neighbourhood, somewhat akin to New York’s specific neighbourhoods with their distinctive mix of proximity and privacy in equal measure.

任何一座塔的顶部都是它最显眼的元素，与此相一致，莱纳德街56号的顶部是该项目最具表现力的部分。这种表现力是由室内的需求直接驱动的，包括十个大型的顶层公寓和宽敞的室外空间和宽敞的居住区域。这些大型程序组件在外部注册为大型块，悬臂和移动根据内部配置和渴望捕捉特定的观点，这最终导致雕塑的顶部表达。

The top of any tower is its most visible element and, in keeping with this, the top of 56 Leonard Street is the most expressive part of the project. This expressiveness is driven directly by the requirements of the interior, consisting of ten large-scale penthouses with expansive outdoor spaces and spacious living areas. These large program components register on the exterior as large-scale blocks, cantilevering and shifting according to internal configurations and the desire to capture specific views, which ultimately results in the sculptural expression of the top.

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同时，塔基响应了Tribeca的特殊性。这是纽约的一部分，其特点是建筑规模广泛-从小型联排别墅到大型工业街区，以及市中心无处不在的高层建筑。通过将不同尺寸的像素组合在一起，包括大堂、停车甲板和住房设施，这座塔反映并融合了每一种邻里尺度。

Meanwhile, the base of the tower responds to the special character of Tribeca. This is a part of New York characterized by a wide range of building scales - from small townhouses to large industrial blocks and the ubiquitous high-rise buildings of downtown. By grouping together ‘pixels’ of various sizes, including lobby, parking decks and housing amenities, the tower reflects and incorporates each of these neighbourhood scales.

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整个塔的外观很大程度上是由于接受和推到极限，简单和熟悉的当地施工方法。作为一个体积，建筑物有极端的比例-在结构上可能的边缘-并且由于其相对较小的足迹，是非常高和纤细的。这座建筑还展示了它的结构“骨头”，并且不隐藏它在覆层下的制造方法。相反，裸露的水平混凝土板记录了施工过程中的逐层堆放，在现场暴露的混凝土柱允许工作中的结构力从内部经历。令人震惊的、挫折的和像素化的系统通过每秒钟或第三次外观单元中的可操作窗口得到进一步的动画化。对于高层建筑来说，这一不寻常的特性也允许居住者直接控制新鲜空气的入口.

The overall appearance of the tower is very much a result of accepting and pushing to the limit simple and familiar local methods of construction. As a volume, the building has extreme proportions – at the very edge of what is structurally possible – and given its relatively small footprint, is exceptionally tall and slender. The building also shows its structural ‘bones’ and does not hide the method of its fabrication underneath layers of cladding. Instead, exposed horizontal concrete slabs register the floor-by-floor stacking of the construction process and exposed in-situ concrete columns allow the scale of the structural forces at work to be experienced from within the interior. The system of staggering, setbacks and pixelation is further animated through operable windows in every second- or third- façade unit. This unusual feature for high-rise buildings also allows occupants to directly control fresh air intake.

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这些不同的策略-从内到外考虑塔楼，对当地规模作出反应，并最大限度地发挥当地建筑系统的潜力-产生了一座在145套公寓中只有5套重复的建筑。此外，没有两个楼板是相同的，给那些谁将生活在这个项目中他们自己独特的家园，其特点是独特的时刻，个性的整体堆叠。

Together these different strategies – considering the tower from the inside-out, responding to local scales, and maximizing the potential of local construction systems – produce a building where only five out of the 145 apartments are repeated. Furthermore, no two floor plates are the same, giving those who will live in this project their own unique home characterized by distinct moments of individuality within the overall stack.

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Architects Herzog & de Meuron

Location 56 Leonard St, New York, NY, United States

Category Apartments

Project Architects Herzog & de Meuron

Executive Architect Goldstein, Hill & West Architects

Project Year 2017

Photographs Hufton + Crow