Design mavens who will never see the inside of 40 Bond Street in New York—a $10 million, Herzog de Meuron-designed townhouse—can take heart: The fanciest feature is actually the building's gates, inspired by wildstyle graffiti. Installed in October, they crawl 140 feet along" the sidewalk and another 22 feet up the building's facade. Jacques Herzog says the firm wanted to create something "solid, rough, and chaotic," so they collaged four real-life tags from anonymous graffiti artists. After transforming that design into a 3-D mold, they then cast it in a silvery, coral-textured aluminum at Tallix, a foundry for artists in upstate New York.
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