Dror design practice unveils three new residential block concepts for the Big Apple

Dror architecture and design studios, headed up by Dror Benshetrit, unveiled today three new concept buildings: 100 Varick, 350 Bowery and 271 Fifth Avenue.

These new designs are showcased in the lead up to the New York-based studio's announcement of upcoming commissions where it has won two major architectural projects.

100 Varick

Geometrical and refined, 100 Varick is a combination of glass columns and criss-crossing beams spanning 25 floors and split into individual five-story units. 100 Varick was created for a closed competition headed up by developer Michael Shvo and uses a 'QuaDror exoskeleton', where glass is inserted into openings formed by the external frame. Its appearance is similar to a giant rubrics cube not quite completed and enclosed in a frame. The design was influenced by the structural efficiency of a 'diagrid' illustrated by Sir Norman Foster.

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