6 brilliant ideas in Zaha Hadid's New York City apartment building

Architect Zaha Hadid's first high-rise apartment building in New York City will offer the best of everything.

Set to open by early 2017, the apartments overlook the High Line and will come with a slew of high-class amenities. 

I recently toured one of the model apartments and left drooling over all the cool design ideas and smart home gadgetry.

Here are some of the most exciting innovations at 520 West 28th Street, where units will sell for up to $50 million.

Floors that interlock.

The 39-apartment complex will rise to 11 stories — with 21 floors that interlock like a jigsaw puzzle.

Each unit has its own floor, but the apartments interlock where they meet in the middle. As illustrated on the photo above, the fifth and sixth floors are still on the same story, maximizing the building's use of space.

The interlocking floors are a unique architectural design feature and fit into Hadid's futuristic style, Related Companies' marketing manager Natalie Johnson told Tech Insider.

Filtered air that's pumped in.

Before residents even move in, oxygen will be filtered four times and then pumped into every apartment unit, Johnson said.

New York City's air quality technically meets national standards, but it still measures more than double the recommended level of PM 2.5 — air particles that can lodge in the lungs and cause chronic diseases.

More luxury developers are starting to filter their building's air multiple times. Read more here.

Four elevators that run in two shafts.

It's unusual for NYC apartments to include elevators — let alone four.

In Hadid's new building, the four elevators will run next to each other in two elevator shafts. Residents will hardly ever wait, and the elevators will open right into each apartment.