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
    -ACEC New York Engineering Excellence Awards, Platinum Award (Structural Systems), 2024
    -ARCHITECT Residential Architect Design Awards, Honorable Mention, Multifamily Housing, 2023
    - Architizer A+ Awards, Jury Winner, Multi Unit Housing - High Rise, 2023
    - AZ Awards, Award of Merit, Multi-Unit Residential, 2023
    - 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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Conceived as an urban living room, the public plaza is fundamental to how one experiences 130 William. The plaza creates both a public amenity and a transitional moment between the bustle of the city and the respite of the private residences inside. With its allée of trees, seating, and thematic continuation of the large-scaled arches, the plaza is really a gesture to the city and a critical facet of what makes this building unique. - 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 — 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, a piece of urban placemaking that offers a transitional condition between the bustle of urban life and the respite of the residences.

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