Imagine New York City’s UN Headquarters building transported from its stuffy midtown location to a trendy downtown spot, kinked in the middle, rotated 90 degrees, and balanced over an elevated rail-line-cum-popular parkland and you’ve got the Standard New York. The latest incarnation of hotelier André Balazs’s chain of hip, “anything but standard” accommodations is the first he built from the ground up. His surprising choice of architect, Polshek Partnership, is not exactly a firm that’s in demand among the jet-set crowd. And though the Standard’s unapologetically Modern design shares little in common with the sinuous building shapes and exploding assemblies by more sought-after architects that have sprung up nearby, its fearless form—as if from a bygone era—is an attention-grabber nonetheless.
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