Swiss Suite. Shrager taps Herzog & de Meuron and John Pawson for Lower East Side hotel

(foto: Courtesy Herzog & de Meuron)

In recent months, a host of long-delayed apartment towers and hotels on Manhattan’s Lower East Side have begun rising, and in some cases opening, high above the low-slung former tenement neighborhood. For the most part, these projects have done so without much architectural design or distinction, but one new building could break the trend. Enter: Herzog & de Meuron.

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