TRAVELS One57 Tower by French Architect CHRISTIAN DE PORTZAMPARC and Park Hyatt Hotel - New York USA I am usually absolutely not attracted by an hotel who can offer more then 15 rooms, but the One57 tower recovers more from the architectural experience than from the hotel business. First of all, his architect the French Christian de Portzampark, was driven by desire to undertake the not so easy challenge of a luxury without ostentation while exercising the immoderation with extravagance. In the ONe57 Tower everything is too big: the tower, the suites, the lounges, the swimming pool etc......and that make you feel small, small, small..... The Park Hyatt hotel Park Hyatt New York is located in the heart of midtown at 153 West 57th street between Avenue of the Americas and Seventh Avenue, across from Carnegie Hall and a short stroll from Central Park. The hotel, designed by world-renowned, Pritzker Prize-winning architect Christian de Portzamparc, features 210 generously sized guest rooms including 92 suites, designed by Yabu Pushelberg. The state-of-the-art guest rooms are among the largest in the city, starting from 475 square feet or 44 square meters. The hotel is part of a 90-story mixed-use tower that features 94 Thomas Juul-Hansen-designed luxury spaces with breathtaking views of Central Park and the New York skyline. Throughout our hotel, guests will experience an uncommon space offering sophistication and elegance. Indulge in our generously-sized accommodations that marry luxurious appointments with dozens of modern amenities. Discover rare and intimate experiences tailored to your individual preferences with delectable dishes at our restaurant The Back Room at One57 or our soothing and invigorating full-service Spa Nalai. We take pleasure and pride in customizing each stay for traveling professionals and vacationing tourists alike, including being a pet friendly hotel. Christian de Portzampac ARCHITECT With its premier address on West 57th Street, Park Hyatt New York is nestled among many top destinations and faces the world-famous Carnegie Hall across the street. Experience the stunning acoustics of this performing arts and music venue next door or in our hotel with exclusive Carnegie Hall-related features. Raising the standards for New York luxury hotels, Park Hyatt New York delivers style and sophistication in every detail with personal touches inspiring our ambiance, artwork, dining and décor. Christian de Portzamparc ( born 5 May 1944) is a French architect and urbanist. He graduated from the École Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris in 1970 and has since been noted for his bold designs and artistic touch; his projects reflect a sensibility to their environment and to urbanism that is a founding principle of his work. He won the Pritzker Prize in 1994. de Portzamparc was born in Casablanca, Morocco in 1944, when that country was a French protectorate. He began studying architecture in 1962 at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he was influenced by professors Eugène Beaudouin, who encouraged his taste for formal expressionism, and George Candilis, who emphasized systematic work on grids and networks. In 1966 he traveled to New York where he spent a few months during a nine-month academic hiatus that was rooted in his hesitations about continuing in architecture—Architecture seemed to me to be too bureaucratic, and not free enough compared to art; and the modernistic ideals which I worshiped before, seemed to me unable to reach the richness of real life. I also began to criticize my first influences like Le Corbusier. Nevertheless he returned to his studies in the 1967 academic year and would graduate from the Beaux-Arts in 1969. He created his agency in 1980, supported by Marie-Élisabeth Nicoleau, Étienne Pierrès and Bertrand Beau, and later welcomed Bruno Durbecq, Céline Barda, Léa Xu, André Terzibachian and Clovis Cunha. Based in Paris, the agency has ‘satellite’ offices near building sites, in addition to offices in New York and Rio de Janeiro, and represents a team of 80 people, drawn from all corners of the globe. Both an architect and urban planner, Christian de Portzamparc is implicated in the research of form and meaning, as well as being a constructer. His work focuses on research over speculation and concerns the quality of life; aesthetics are conditioned by ethics, and he maintains that we have too often dissociated one from the other. Christian de Portzamparc focuses on all scales of construction, from simple buildings to urban re-think; the town is a founding principal of his work, developing in parallel and in crossover along three major lines: neighbourhood or city pieces, individual buildings and sky-scrapers. The growth of Christian de Portzamparc’s urban projects through competitions and studies led to an evolution of methods, a practical result of theoretical research and analysis. This renewed vision of urban structure, which he named the “open block” in the 80s, can be seen today through projects such as the Quartier Masséna - Seine Rive Gauche (since 1995), an entire neighbourhood of Paris, and at La Lironde (since 1991), in the south of France, both of which illustrate his master-planning and coordination techniques. Christian de Portzamparc’s iconic buildings, urban poles of attraction, create environments wherein the interior and exterior spaces interpenetrate, working as catalysts in cityscape dynamics. This method of functioning came into play in major cultural programmes, often dedicated to dance and music, the most recent examples of which include a 1500 seat philharmonic hall, 300 seat chamber hall and 120 seat electro-acoustic hall in Luxembourg, completed in 2005, plus a unique 1800 seat concert hall that transforms into a 1300 seat opera house, which is under construction, amongst other music halls, as part of the project Cidade da Música in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The towers created by Christian de Portzamparc have, since the beginning, been a result of his studies of the vertical and sculptural dimension, concentrating on the prismatic form, the most recognised example of which is the LVMH Tower created in 1995 in New York, USA, for which Christian de Portzamparc received many accolades, soon to be accompanied by the residential tower at 400 Park avenue in Manhattan, whose site is due to commence in 2010. In 1994, Christian de Portzamparc became the first French architect to gain the prestigious “Pritzker Architectural Prize”, at the age of 50. In 1999, he created the twenty-three story LVMH Tower on East 57th Street in New York City and, later, the LVMHs corporate headquarters on Avenue Montaigne in Paris, France. In 2006, the Collège de France created a 53rd chair dedicated ‘artistic creation’, and called on Christian de Portzamparc to be its first occupant. Today, he continues his research work through projects that are under way around the world, expressing his freshness, pleasure and passion through a perfectionism that has characterised his work from the beginning. PARK HYATT NEW YORK 153 West 57th Street New York, New York, USA, 10019 Tel: +1 646 774 1234 Fax: +1 646 774 1235 Email: salesnycph@hyatt
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