It's the Dream Hotel in NYC by Handel Architects. What everyone is saying (and what is true!) is that it
looks like a giant Connect 4 game.
I do like the way the openings wrap down to the horizontal plane over the entry:
Basically, it seems that the entire parti of this building is: "Perforated!"
It's a bit of a one liner, and I think it's ok as a unique element. But we have to be careful - there really can be only one building like this on a block, or even in a district. A building that is so out of context and scale with it's neighbors starts to exist in a vacuum - so long as the buildings around it "play by the rules" this one can get away with breaking them - I guess? One big plus for this project in my book is that it's an adaptive re-use. So kudos for that!
Building mages from Dezeen.
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