DST 60304|CONTEMPORARY DESIGN THEORIES

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Figure 18: Each pilaster in a kind of gentle arc as if the building is vanishing in the sky

Figure 19: 26 different shapes and 6 different cream colours of Terracotta

Figure 2: Bronze Filigree, a flat facade but looks like curved fronts

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111 West 57th Street, uses CNC technology to fabricate the Terracotta plaster of 26 shapes in 6 different cream colours on its facades that looks like a rotating terracotta up the spire with LEDs embedded inside. Serving as a rain screen system, the flat bronze filigree is sighted curved on the glass curtain wall, that makes people admire the merging of contemporary and historical elements together.


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