© João Morgado
Manhattan’s dense landscape has just received another skyscraper, this time designed by a Portuguese Pritzker Prize Winner. At 137 meters high and with 35 floors, 611 West 56th Street, Álvaro Siza‘s first building in New York, was just completed, on the outside. The luxury apartment complex, which is also Siza’s first work in the United States, has several facilities for its residents, such as a swimming pool, a spa, a gym, a playground for children and rooms for events.