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In 2018, the Tribeca Citizen obtained an email from the fabricator, Performance Structures Inc., to the developer, elaborating on its complexity: 38 stainless-steel plates plus a supporting framework, all welded together precisely “so that when all were assembled the results would create a perfect sculptural form.” (Alexico Group, the building’s developer, told me in an email that “the proprietary means and methods used to actualize the seamless finish had never previously been utilized.”) Then came COVID, stalling the project yet again: Kapoor’s British installation crew couldn’t enter the country, and the parts themselves got caught in shipping delays. What took so long? It is, it turns out, really hard to make a big outdoor bean.
And not just because of the great new bean: “I’ve felt bad for the people living here, always above the construction.” One passerby, a dog walker named Milena Derevyanko, expressed relief to see it completed. On Tuesday, the day of its great unveiling, the bean reflected its gray surroundings - the early-afternoon sky and the luxury tower squishing it. Only now, five-plus years later, is the bean complete. Yet when the skyscraper was completed in 2017 - and Kapoor himself bought a four-bedroom apartment there - it was noticeably beanless. So have my partners.” Senbahar insisted that the New York bean, which would end up 48 feet long and 19 feet tall and weigh 40 tons, was worth it. When New York asked the developer Izak Senbahar why he’d spent $8 million on the bean, he laughed and said, “The bankers have asked me that. Anish Kapoor was to offer New York City its own version of Chicago’s Cloud Gate sculpture, one that would appear to be squashed under a corner of the tower.
(The developer spent $135.5 million to buy the lot from New York Law School.) The project's website is still live, so there are potential floorplans enough to keep us busy until 2016. But back in the day, the 145 units were set to start around $3.5 million, with the highest-priced penthouse asking around $35 million. There's no intel yet on whether developer the Alexico Group plans to keep the 2008 pricing for the building. CB 1 member Bruce Ehrmann called the project "a meteor that's landing in absolutely the lowest-rise section of Tribeca." The construction manager has set up a hotline for locals to call with complaints. Nor did neighborhood opposition fade over the years that the site sat empty. All digits crossed, please.Įarlier reports had us anticipating minor modifications to the design, but it actually sounds like the only potential alteration is that the planned Anish Kapoor sculpture may no longer sit at the building's base. Facade work will begin next summer, and the building will be finished in spring 2016. It will still be a while before the building depicted in the renderings exists in reality: it will take three months just to put in Con Ed utility vaults, and another year and a half to build the superstructure. The Tribeca Trib and Tribeca Citizen report that construction will resume on 56 Leonard? next week. The foundation of the Jenga tower at 56 Leonard Street has sat untouched for more than three years, while its starchitects Herzog & de Meuron planned a copycat tower in Beirut and OMA masterminded a similar one in Bangkok.
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