A Manhattan Community Board will review a plan Wednesday by Durst Fetner Residential to redevelop its large lot at 625 West 57th Street with a 467-foot-high warped pyramid rental apartment building with more than 600 units, according to an article by

Branden Klayko today at archpaper.com

The article said that 20 percent of the units would be "affordable and that the developer plans to seek a LEED Gold certification for the project, which is to the west of its large Helena rental apartment tower.

The designer of the large project is BIG (The Bjarke Ingels Group)and the architect of record is SLCE.

Renderings that were published today at ny.curbed.com and in New York Magazine indicate that from the south the building would appear as a light-colored pyramid with a large scooped out open atrium. Its profiled from the west, however, will reveal is very thin profile with a north facade that rises straight up from the sidewalk across from the handsome power station designed by McKim Meade & White on the north side of 58th Street. The north facade will abound in balconies as well the open atrium on the south facade.

The swooping southern will have large inset balconies.

Mr. Ingels is a 36-year formerly worked by Rem Koolhaas.

The ny.curbed.com article by Joey Arak quoted the article as stating that "This is thecountry that invested surf and turf!," adding that "don't think Ingels is just cramming some craziness into this long-empty lot without considering its environment. The greenery is a visual connection to Hudson River Park, and the building's shape helps create and preserve some excellent views while pulling back from the noisy West Side Highway and nearby sanitation garage."

The site is one block south of Extell Development's large, planned Riverside Center complex that has been designed by Christian de Portzamparc.

In his article on the project and Mr. Ingels in this week's edition of New York Magagazine, Justin Davidson wrote that "For the desolate juncture of 57th Street and the West Side Highway, he has designed an utterly unexpected form, neither tower nor slab nor even quite a pyramid, but a gracefully asymmetrical peak with a landscaped bower in its hollowed core. It looks wild, but it's born of logic; true originality is the inevitable endpoint of rigorous thought."

Ingels has been a visiting professor at Rice University, Harvard, and Columbia, and Mr. Davidson noted that one of his projects in Denmark has "a steel facade [that displays a perforated image of Everest, adding that, "for a native of a little platelike country, Ingels sure has alpine cravings: BIG has just won a competition to build a waste-to-energy plant that will loom over Copenhagen's lagoon - and double as an artificial ski slope."

"Ingels's design," Mr. Davidson wrote, "capitalizes on the city's steady march to the ever-more-verdant riverfront, where industry meets leisure. He and his architects had multiple tasks: turn the building toward the water, leave neighbors' views as intact as possible, and negotiate a transition from the low-slung silhouette of Hell's Kitchen to the long-necked towers of Riverside South. At the same time, Ingels wanted to make a 'blatant' connection with Hudson River Park, and pull its greenery into the heart of the architecture in the form of a spacious court. To open up views, the building dips down at its southwestern corner. To mitigate traffic noise, it pulls back from the highway and the sanitation garage, rising along a steep, continuous slope to a sharp 450-foot summit."

In describing the project, Mr. Davidson observed that "Balconies slash the inclined plane. The apartments slant away from the corridor like fishbones so that windows on 58th Street frame westward views. Ingels is a virtuoso of repetitive protrusions: Instead of facing the building with a slick screen of glass, he breaks it into a Cubist expanse of windowed bays."