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New York designer Thomas Juul-Hansen has completed the Sutton Tower skyscraper in New York, which has limestone facades and a champagne-coloured stainless steel crown.
Called Sutton Tower, the residential skyscraper rises 850 feet (259 metres) on Manhattan's East Side, near the Queensboro Bridge on 58th Street.
It is the tallest structure completed by Denmark-born designer Juul-Hansen. A spokesperson for the team said that the building is the "tallest residential building on Manhattan's East Side".
Juul-Hansen said that he intended the tower to walk the line between the "modern and classic", which he achieved by combining materials like Bavarian limestone – which lines the entirety of the facade – and a relatively simple, rectilinear form.
In order to achieve this, the structure has a limestone facade at ground level with black-metal framed windows and a canopy, so that the first six-storeys appear to meld more naturally with the surrounding mid-rise structures.
After six storeys, there is a set back and the tower begins. The glass windows widen slightly towards the top with mechanical infrastructure hidden beneath a crown clad in champagne-coloured stainless steel, which was informed by the "old landmark structures" of New York City.
Besides the mix of classic materials with a modern form, Juul-Hansen said that the view of the base and the view of the top gave the structure two very different interpretations, depending where it's viewed from.