架构师提供的文本描述。由国际知名的日本Shigeru ban建筑公司设计的金属幕墙位于西19街的南侧，位于西切尔西艺术画廊区的第10至第11大道之间，远离高线、哈德逊河、切尔西码头和哈德逊河公园。这个街区提供了纽约的大胆展示：弗兰克盖里设计的IAC总部就在隔壁，让努维尔的10011在街对面。整个街区的低档仓库建筑使人们可以从金属幕墙的每一层看到城市的长景，包括帝国大厦。

Text description provided by the architects. The Metal Shutter Houses, designed by the internationally renowned Japanese firm Shigeru Ban Architects, are located on the south side of West 19th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues in West Chelsea’s art gallery district, steps away from the High Line, the Hudson River, Chelsea Piers, and the Hudson River Park. The block offers a bold display of the new New York: the Frank Gehry-designed IAC Headquarters are next door and Jean Nouvel’s 100 11th is across the street. Low-profile warehouse buildings throughout the neighborhood allow for long city views, including the Empire State building, from each floor of the Metal Shutter Houses.

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这标志着潘基文在美国建造的第一个新的共管公寓住宅。潘以他的“诗意”建筑风格而闻名，他为这个独特的11层结构量身定做了可以被描述为语境的发明。在他以前的一些住宅设计中，就可以看到这种高度敏感的独创性，比如幕墙屋(东京，日本)、纸屋(日本山梨)，以及最近的家具屋(Sagaponac，纽约)。尽管潘基文的作品一直如此具有创造性，以至于人们无法概括他的“外观”，但“金属幕墙”的可变外观展示了潘基文对使用不寻常的材料(或在新环境中使用普通材料)和部件的流动性的迷恋，这往往受到日本传统建筑的简单性以及国际学校现代线条的启发。

This marks the first new construction condominium residences in the United States by Ban. Known for his “poetic” architectural style, Ban has tailored what could be characterized as contextual invention to this unique 11 story structure. Such highly sensitive ingenuity has been seen in some of his previous house designs, such as the Curtain Wall House (Tokyo, Japan), the Paper House (Yamanashi, Japan), and more recently, the Furniture House 5 (Sagaponac, New York). While Ban’s work is continually so inventive that one cannot generalize his “look,” the Metal Shutter Houses' variable façade demonstrates Ban's fascination with use of unusual materials (or use of common materials in new contexts) and mobility of parts, often inspired by the simplicity of traditional Japanese architecture as well as the modern lines of the International school.

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迈克尔·莫兰

金属船闸房是一座动态建筑。该外观的机动穿孔金属百叶窗作为光调节的隐私屏幕，在每个住宅的露台外缘，毗邻的双高度起居室。这个微妙的“可拆卸的皮肤”回响附近的画廊后，百叶窗，微妙的背景建筑在其网站内。建筑实际上可以变成一个统一的最小立方体，或者它可以完全打开(以及几乎无限排列之间)。灌木丛的南面，20英尺高，向上旋转完全打开，从而模糊了内外的界限-双高起居室和灌木丛成为一体。同样，一系列内部滑动玻璃门在每个复式住宅中都创造了一个开放的“通用地板”-一片广阔而不间断的空间，它从内到外无缝过渡，或者将空间分割成私人空间。

The Metal Shutter Houses is a dynamic building. The façade's motorized perforated metal shutters serve as light-modulating privacy screen at the outer edge of each residence’s terrace adjacent to the double-height living rooms. This subtle “removable skin” echoes the neighboring gallery after-hours shutters, subtly contextualizing the building within its site. The building can literally become a uniform minimal cube, or it can open completely (as well as virtually unlimited permutations between). South of the loggia, twenty foot tall, upwardly pivoting open completely, thus blurring the boundary between the inside and outside – the double height living room and loggia become one. Similarly, a series of interior sliding glass doors create an open "universal floor" in each of the duplex houses – one vast and uninterrupted expanse which transitions seamlessly from inside to outside, or partition the space into private areas.

这座建筑大约有120英尺高，由11层楼组成，有8栋复式住宅，面积从1，950平方米到4，644平方米，一座画廊和一层大堂24小时的门卫。虽然大部分的单位是在破土动工之前售出的，但最近完工的顶层公寓已经以1295万美元的价格上市。

The building stands approximately 120’ tall and consists of eleven stories, featuring eight duplex houses ranging from 1,950 sqf to 4,644 sqf, an art gallery and a 24-hour doorman on at the ground floor lobby. Although most of the units were sold prior to breaking ground, the recently finished penthouse has been brought to market for $12.95 million.