The New York City building code has here been reinterpreted: the horizontal plane of the traditional urban fabric is replaced with a diagonal surface that bifurcates the façade. It integrates the strict building setback codes into a new, vertical landscape that folds and twists as it ascends affording differing vistas to each interior. The allowable 85 foot straight façade inflects on the NYC building code setback plane for the higher floors of 2.7:1 This inflection resonates through the façade, resulting in a set of oblique planes which negotiate the urban streetscape with the loft interior...
Image from "Delirious NY" by Rem Koolhaas - In Manhattan the "Zoning Law" dictates the facade's withdraw from the street line... This encouraged architects along the years to develop various solutions to the building form ...
Construction of 505 Greenwich Street nears completion, with 497 Greenwich to the right. 18 April 2004.
A panoramic view of Lower West Side. 5 July 2004
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