125 Greenwich Street by Rafael Vinoly, New York, USA
At 125 Greenwich Street, on the corner of Greenwich and Thames streets in Lower Manhattan, Viñoly resisted the architectural trend to build pencil-thin and sky-high, maximizing zoning height allowances. In an unconventional approach to current residential tower design in New York City, the 125 Greenwich Street design opts for a shorter building with a larger floor plate, a context-sensitive solution that also creates more generous apartment layouts. With a rounded corner and a glass façade on the perimeter of the site, the parallelogram-shaped tower creates a landmark residential project just two blocks south of the World Trade Center site, in the heart of a growing cultural, business, and residential district.