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Pritzker Prize–winning architect Jean Nouvel

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While the commission’s director, Edith Hsu-Chen, lauded the building for “its tapered, sculpted form, unique diagrid structure, and curtain wall," she stated in a report on the project that planners had “not made a convincing argument that the design of the tower's top (the uppermost 200 feet of the building) merits being in the zone of the Empire State Building's iconic spire." The building, which will also contain luxury apartments and a hotel, was to rise 1,250 feet.

Novel won the Pritzker Prize, architecture's most prestigious award, in 2008 and has completed numerous arts spaces, including an expansion to the Reina Sofía Museum (2005) in Madrid and the Guthrie Theater (2006) in Minneapolis. In New York he is responsible for a residential building in SoHo and another tower of condominiums under construction in Chelsea.

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