Sky Anchor of the White City
Tall Buildings magazine interviewed Reynolds Logan, principal architect of the Rothschild Tower in Tel Aviv. Associate Partner of Richard Meier & Partners Architects told us about high-rise construction peculiarities in Israel and creative approach of design team in solving problems with local norms and conditions. He shared with the experience of realization of the first residential skyscraper for this architectural firm.
Mr. Logan, you have 25years’ experience of buildings design, and there are several high-rise buildings amongst your projects, so, what are your insights about skyscrapers construction?
It’s a very good question. Richard Meier & Partners Architects has some experience in skyscraper construction. But what do these towers and skyscrapers mean for me?
Rothschild Tower is our first real residential skyscraper. Now there are some more. To date we have two high-rise buildings in New York, West Village. But I would say they are more towers than skyscrapers, because 16-18-storey houses are not real skyscrapers. As for the skyscrapers, now we have two more in New York, two in Taiwan, and we are planning to build two in Mexico, and it’s probably at least a year before any of them will be finished. I would mention that the concept of the skyscraper is always a delicate question. It’s the issue of the context, because obviously the skyscrapers are usually being a result of the overcrowding of the neighborhood, but the larger is the building – the larger its footprint and the more it drops shadow. And so many skyscrapers are enormous and not human scale that you can appreciate. The design and construction of high-rise building always related with challenges, and that’s why the buildings erected at the right place and integrated in the context are very interesting. This building in Israel was very interesting for us, because, on my opinion, the most important there was the context – it is erected in the place where are not so many skyscrapers.
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Interviewed BY MARYANA KRYLOVA