Ateliers Jean Nouvel

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Program: An 18-story, 570,487-square-foot hotel with 182 rooms, 9 conference rooms, a fitness club, a top-floor restaurant with panoramic views, retail space, and five levels of below-ground parking. Design concept and solution: Rather than design a rectilinear tower, the architects imagined the Vienna Sofitel as an abstract volume of tilting planes of glass. They gave the structure—which is concrete for the building's first five stories and a mix of steel and concrete for the remainder—a trapezoidal footprint. With a mix of gray, black, white, mirrored, and transparent glass, the facade produces a dynamic range of reflections. The five-story base of

A 23-story, 130,000-square-foot condominium tower on the Hudson River, next to Frank Gehry's IAC building.

Ateliers Jean Nouvel devises an ethereal container for the Copenhagen Concert Hall.