

130 William
New York, New York, USA
- Status
2021 - Area
41,500 m² / 450,000 ft² - Category
Residential - Design Architect
Adjaye Associates - Architect of Record
Hill West Architects - Client
Lightstone - Civil Engineer
AKRF Engineering PC - Construction Manager
Gilbane - Electrical Engineer
AKRF Engineering PC - Facade Consultant
Gilsanz Murray Steficek LLP - Landscape Architect
William Weintraub Diaz - Lighting Consultant
Brian Orter Lighting, Design (BOLD) - Mechanical/Plumbing Engineer
Ventrop EGC - Structural Engineer
McNamara Salvia - Awards
- NYCxDESIGN Award, Multi-Unit Housing, 2023
- Interior Design Best of Year Award, Multi-Unit Housing, 2022
- The Architect's Newspaper Best of Design Award, Honorable Mention, Residential—Multi-Unit, 2022
- International Residential Architecture Award, Awardee, 2020
- The Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design Award, Best Façade, 2019
- International Property and Travel Award, Best Residential High-Rise Architecture, 2019
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Let’s not do another curtain-wall glass building, Let’s look at the incredible tradition of masonry architecture in Downtown and Midtown New York. - David Adjaye
130 William is the firm’s first high-rise residential tower in the United States. Rising 800 feet, the 66-story luxury condominium is an elegant insertion into the dense Manhattan cityscape, carving a distinctive silhouette within the city’s iconic skyline. Conceived as a vertical microcity, 130 William’s program includes 242 residences, extensive two floors of retail, a health club, fitness center, a movie theater, outdoor terraces, a rooftop observatory deck and a new public plaza park — all of which support the building’s residential community and work to redefine the possibility of the vertical urban neighborhood.
Adjaye Associates’ design celebrates the building’s lower Manhattan context with a hand-cast concrete façade evocative of the masonry craftsmanship of the neighborhood’s historic high-rises. The bespoke, tinted concrete rough textures are offset by smooth bronze detailing throughout the building. Rhythmic, large-scale arched windows, inspired by the mercantile structures that once populated the area, establish the building’s bold silhouette and invite natural light deep into the interior. The highest level residences feature spacious double-height loggias that blur indoor and outdoor life while providing sweeping views, river to river, across the city.
Uniquely, the building also features a generous new public plaza park, a piece of urban placemaking that offers a transitional condition between the bustle of urban life and the respite of the residences.
