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  • residences /
    • skyhouse_1. introduction
    • skyhouse_2. slide
    • skyhouse_3. entry / lightwell
    • skyhouse_4. living room
    • skyhouse_5. a bedroom
    • skyhouse_6. another bedroom
    • skyhouse_7. video tour
    • a townhouse on park avenue
    • a duplex apartment on fifth avenue
    • the penthouse of the woolworth building
    • a villa on saint barthes
    • a mountaintop house in the hudson valley
    • an apartment on park avenue
    • a house in the berkshires
    • a duplex penthouse in soho
    • a house addition in princeton
    • a duplex loft in soho
    • a triplex loft in soho
    • a penthouse on central park west
    • a loft in greenwich village
    • a townhouse on long island
  • religious and cultural institutions /
    • the church of saint sarkis
    • the saint sarkis community center
    • the cascade gardens cultural center
    • the united nations general assembly suite
  • art galleries and museums /
    • ordovas gallery_new york
    • cascade gardens_yerevan, armenia
    • sculpture center_new york
    • eyebeam atelier_new york
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DAVID HOTSON_ARCHITECT
  • index /
  • residences /
    • skyhouse_1. introduction
    • skyhouse_2. slide
    • skyhouse_3. entry / lightwell
    • skyhouse_4. living room
    • skyhouse_5. a bedroom
    • skyhouse_6. another bedroom
    • skyhouse_7. video tour
    • a townhouse on park avenue
    • a duplex apartment on fifth avenue
    • the penthouse of the woolworth building
    • a villa on saint barthes
    • a mountaintop house in the hudson valley
    • an apartment on park avenue
    • a house in the berkshires
    • a duplex penthouse in soho
    • a house addition in princeton
    • a duplex loft in soho
    • a triplex loft in soho
    • a penthouse on central park west
    • a loft in greenwich village
    • a townhouse on long island
  • religious and cultural institutions /
    • the church of saint sarkis
    • the saint sarkis community center
    • the cascade gardens cultural center
    • the united nations general assembly suite
  • art galleries and museums /
    • ordovas gallery_new york
    • cascade gardens_yerevan, armenia
    • sculpture center_new york
    • eyebeam atelier_new york
  • profile /
  • news /
  • contact

skyhouse / chapter two

The Slide: At the suggestion of the owners, we inserted a mirror polished stainless steel slide that coils down through all four levels of the penthouse.

The slide is entered through a circular hole cut in the seamless sloping glass partition at the south end of the Attic.

Visitors are invited to select a yellow cashmere blanket from the pile beside the entrance to speed their trip to the bottom….

The slide coils around a column and over the double-height guest bedroom. Interior designer Ghislaine Vinas installed a startling mural, inspired by Michael Jackson’s Neverland, in the only vertical wall in the room, scattering shards of saturated color along the mirror-polished surface.   The slide then slips through a second seamless glass window and out over the stair.  Windows in the slide admit natural light from the dormer windows and provide a fleeting vistas through the entire length of the penthouse.

A landing provides an opportunity to make a local stop at the third level or to re-enter the slide to continue the rest of the way down. 

The lower leg coils down through the ceiling and into the Library on the main level, suspended from a single point within the floor structure above. 

As it reaches the end, the helical tube flares out to create a distorted rectangular mirror which forms the wall of the Library and deposits the visitor back at the foot of the staircase.

For a more detailed look at SkyHouse please follow the links found in ‘skyhouse / introduction’

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