"One of the most admired and critically acclaimed buildings to have risen in New York in recent years is French architect Christian de Portzamparc's luminous, crystalline LVMH office tower on East 57th Street (right). Winner of the Pritzker Prize in 1994, de Portzamparc has now teamed up with Handel Architects to design a residential cousin of sorts--a rental apartment house for a site at Park Avenue South and 28th Street. The apartment tower, though much larger, will take a similar form, with faceted glass rising into offset peaks. More after the jump..."
