1. Rafael Viñoly, “The Greenwich”, New York, USA
The Greenwich by Rafael Viñoly to be completed in NYC after 4 years on hold.
The race for the sky continues in New York. The years 2010 and 2020 will be remembered in urban histories as a season of intense skyscraper construction in the American city, following the ornate pioneers of the early 20th century and their glazed heirs of the second half of the century. Among others, Rafael Viñoly (1944-2023), the Uruguayan architect naturalized in the United States, has also participated in this new boom. A few years ago he designed the very tall, very abstract and very thin ‘432 Park Avenue’ (2015). In 2024 ‘The Greenwich’, 87 storeys for 272 luxury flats in the heart of the financial district, will also be completed. With its predecessor it shares the program and slenderness, but opts for a curtain wall cladding, more transparent, enveloping and with rounded edges.
