The slender residential tower draws inspiration from the neighborhood character and material palette of Downtown Manhattan.
Defined by its brick façade, the Greenwich Spire offers a counterpoint to New York’s prevailing glass residential tower typology and finds its character where Greenwich Village often does—at the intersection of the intimate and the grand. “Greenwich Village has always possessed a rare quality––an intimacy that somehow coexists with the grandeur of the city around it,” says Design Principal Trent Tesch. “With The Greenwich Spire, we sought to honor that duality—from the handcrafted texture of the wire-cut brick facade, which roots the tower in the warmth and craft of the neighborhood, to its slender, setback crown, which claims its place among the most timeless buildings in the Manhattan skyline.”
Located just west of Fifth Avenue in Greenwich Village, the building’s slender form offers sweeping views of the West Village and the Hudson River beyond. An entrance framed by fluted, cast-stone pillars leads into a covered porte-cochère, while a system of vertical piers draws the eye upward, intersecting with the building’s horizontal terraces to create a balanced architectural rhythm. Deep cutouts introduce dimensionality to the façade while enabling additional corner exposures for many of the residences.
