Nouveau Nouvel

A futuristic 75-story tower will rise in midtown next to the MOMA. According to the glowing review in the NY Times:

Designed by the architect Jean Nouvel for a site next to the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown promises to be the most exhilarating addition to the skyline in a generation. Its faceted exterior, tapering to a series of crystalline peaks, suggests an atavistic preoccupation with celestial heights. It brings to mind John Ruskin’s praise for the irrationality of Gothic architecture: “It not only dared, but delighted in, the infringement of every servile principle.”

At a similar height to the Chrysler Building, the tower will contain a hotel, luxury condos, and three floors of new space for the museum. As I've noted here several times, most of more recent Manhattan skyscrapers have been hideously bland glass towers, but this looks spectacular.