VIA 57 West
New York, United States
Client
The Durst Organization
Typology
Residential
Size m2/ft2
77,202 / 831,000
Status
Completed
THE SITE — The site is on the west side waterfront of Manhattan, framed by a power plant, a sanitation garage and the West Side Highway. The site needed to become a place; it needed an oasis in the middle of all the infrastructure.
COURTYARD — The courtyard creates a sanctuary for the residents in the heart of the block.
DENSIFICATION — To reach Manhattan density, the north-east corner is raised to 470 ft.
PRESERVING VIEWS — The receding silhouette leaves the water views uninterrupted for the adjacent Helena Tower, which is also owned by the Durst Organization.
“In recent decades, some of the most interesting urban developments have come in the form of nature and public space, reinserting themselves back into the postindustrial pockets, appearing around the city; the pedestrianization of Broadway & Times Square; the bicycle lanes, the High Line and the industrial piers turning into parks. Located at the northern tip of the Hudson River Park, VIA continues this process of 'greenification,' allowing open space to invade the urban fabric of the Manhattan city grid. In an unlikely fusion of what seems to be two mutually exclusive typologies, the courtyard and the skyscraper, the Courtscraper is the recent addition to the Manhattan skyline, showing that we don’t have to limit our choices to one or the other - we get to have both.”Bjarke Ingels - Founder & Creative Director, BIG
WEST ELEVATION
NORTH ELEVATION
SOUTH ELEVATION
Partner in Charge
Bjarke Ingels
Thomas Christoffersen
Beat Schenk
Project Architect
David Brown
Project Leader
Sören Grünert
Project Team
Daniel Sundlin
Alessandro Ronfini
Alvaro Garcia Mendive
Benjamin Schulte
Birk Daugaard
Christoffer Gotfredsen
Gabrielle Nadeau
Hongyi Jin
Lucian Mihail Racovitan
Marcella Martinez
Maya Shopova
Ola El Hariri
Tara Hagan
Valentina Mele
Valerie Lechene
Yi Li
Gül Ertekin
Aleksander Tokarz
Alessio Valmori
Celine Jeanne
Eivor Davidsen
Felicia Guldberg
Florian Oberschneider
Ho Kyung Lee
Julian Liang
Julianne Gola
Laura Youf
Maria Nikolova
Mitesh Dixit
Nicklas Antoni Rasch
Riccardo Mariano
Stanley Lung
Steffan Heath
Thilani Rajarathna
Tyler Alexander Polich
Xu Li
Dominyka Mineikyte
Project Team, Interiors
Pauline Lavie-Luong
Francesca Portesine
Ivy Hume
Aaron Hales
Brian Foster
Jenny Chang
Lauren Turner
Mina Rafiee
Rakel Karlsdottir
Thomas Fagan
Tiago Barros
Awards
ULI NY Award of Excellence for Multi Family, 2021
ASLA NY Merit Award, Residential Landscape Architecture Design, 2018
London Design Awards, Gold Winner, 2017
AIA Housing Award for Multifamily Housing, 2017
AIA New York State Design Award for Residential for Multi Family, 2017
ArchDaily, Housing Building of the Year, 2017
ACEC New York Engineering Excellence Diamond Award, 2017
Brick in Architecture Award for Paving & Landscape, 2017
The Emporis Skyscraper Award, 2016
The International Highrise Award, 2016
CTBUH Best Tall Building Americas, 2016
Residential Architect Design Award for Multifamily Housing category, 2016
Interior Design Best of Year Award for Residence: Lobby & Amenity Spaces, 2016
American Architecture Prize Residential Architecture Silver Award, 2016
ENR New York Best Residential Project, 2016
World Architecture Festival Best Housing Category Finalist, 2016
Concrete Industry Board Award for Quality Concrete Special Recognition, 2015
P/A Progressive Architecture Awards, Citation, 2015
AIANY Design Award, Merit Award for Future Project, 2012
Collaborators
SLCE Architects
Starr Whitehouse Landscape
Thornton Tomasetti
Dagher Engineering
Langan Engineering
Hunter Roberts
Enclos
Philip Habib & Assoc
Nancy Packes
Van Deusen & Assoc
Cerami & Assoc
CPP
AKRF
Vidaris Inc.
Brandston Partnership Inc.