Architect:
Jun Aoki
Completion:
2004
Description:
Japan's Jun Aoki has so far created six shops for French fashion designer Louis Vuitton. Five of them are in the architect's native country, but one of them is in Midtown Manhattan.
Aoki's design basically skins an existing Art Deco building, wrapping five floors fully about the base and another six floors at the very corner. This asymmetrical wrapping is not arbitrary as it responds to the existing building's mass. Two layers of frit are applied to insulated glass to create a layered effect that changes as one moves. It's an interesting effect both close-up and far away.
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Address:
One East 57th Street
New York, NY 10022
212.758.8877
Map/Directions/Info:
The building is located on the NE corner of 57th Street and Fifth Avenue, in Midtown Manhattan.
Train: N,R,W to Fifth; F to 57th; 6 to Lexington
Bus: Need bus info
Car: Need car info
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