40 Bond Street

The luxury apartment building on 40 Bond St in New York designed by Herzog & de Meuron is a sparkling reinterpretation of the traditional cast iron and brick loft buildings of the surrounding area.

The 11-storey building contains 27 luxury apartments and 5 townhouses creating a new typology of apartments which combine housing with the services and amenities of a 5-star hotel.

The facade is constructed of concrete wrapped in blackened copper and luminescent curved glass. The materials of the facade have been treated in numerous ways which create an ornamental ground floor and shimmering upper floors that respond to changes in light. At street level the private entrances to the townhouses are protected by a large cast aluminium graffiti inspired gate. The pattern is repeated on a number of beautiful materials, etched into corian in the foyer and pressed into polished metal panels at the main entrance.

The building fits comfortably into it's context by reinterpreting the typical noho loft buildings and their materiality whilst standing out through the interesting and unique use of new materials and manufacturing processes.

40 Bond Street