I Could Hardly Believe The Shape,

of this new skyscraper, 

all images Negativ, Global architecture firm BIG has designed a pair of Manhattan skyscrapers connected by a twisting skybridge as part of a four-tower development that includes a spiral-shaped museum at its centre, Freedom Plaza will be located on a 6.7-acre (2.7-hectare) site which sits across from the United Nations (UN) Headquarters complex and flanks the entrance to the Queens-Midtown tunnel in Manhattan's Midtown East neighbourhood,

"Bookending the park are two pairs of towers, joined at the base or top and each framing a corner plaza: one showcasing the life of the city and the other forming an urban gate from the city to the upper park and East River beyond," said BIG founder Bjarke Ingels in a statement, the project's 51-storey hotel towers will reach each 615 feet high (187 metres), conjoined by a multi-story, cantilevered skybridge on their uppermost levels and clad in a warm metal finish, the towers will house a Banyan Tree and Mohegran hotel, along with a conference and entertainment centre, which will include a "gaming area", renderings show a green space and terrace placed on the towers' conjoined roof, the project's two residential towers, located towards the site's southside, will reach 550 and 650 feet (167 and 198 metres) high and will contain 1,325 apartments, with nearly 40 per cent dedicated to affordable housing, according to the team,

a semi-circular, underground podium will connect the two towers at their base and will house a food market and retail spaces. The 4.7 acre (1.9 hectare) park at the centre of the development will be laid over top of this podium, the project's central park, which will contain a dog run, children's play area, and bandstand, among curving pathways, was informed by the neighbouring UN headquarters, "When Le Corbusier, Niemeyer and Harrison designed the UN Secretariat Building, they grafted an oasis of international modernism onto the dense urban grid of Manhattan, creating a park on the river framed by towers and pavilions," said Ingels, "With our design for Freedom Plaza, we continue to build on these architectural principles by uniting three city blocks to form a public green space reaching from 1st Avenue to the East River overlook, creating a green connection all the way to the water's edge." what a fantastic design, what will architects think of next?