THIS IS WHERE I AM GOING TO LIVE WHEN I GROW UP...

New details of Jean Nouvel's design for a condo tower on Manhattan's far west side have come out. This small neighborhood near the High Line in the West Chelsea gallery district is experiencing a boom in new construction, and it's become a hotspot for edgy design (Frank Gehry's IAC building is across the street.) The curtain wall in Nouvel's tower will be made up of nearly 1700 different-sized panes of glass. These windowpanes will have slightly differing degrees of transparency, and will be set at varying angles. The building's elevator shafts will have random punched windows along the north facade that will not only allow passengers to view the city as they ascend, but also, viewed from the outside, give off a twinkling light pattern as the elevators move.

For those of you in Minnesota, the name Jean Nouvel probably rings a bell because he gave us this: