With sweeping views of the Hudson River and the Manhattan Skyline, this 39-story tower forms a gateway to the Financial District.
Responding to the west side of lower Manhattan’s resurgence as a desirable location to work and do business, 388 Greenwich mediates between the large scale of the financial district’s office towers and the established, medium-rise scale of TriBeCa’s lofts and residential structures. To address this contextual juxtaposition, the mass of the building establishes two separate readings: that of a tower addressing the water and that of a building stepping down to the lower residential scale.
With a curved, taut façade addressing the Hudson River to the west and a slender, more transparent façade addressing the city to the east, the tower balances the contradictory forces of its site. A shaded formal garden at the tower’s base welcomes the community and forms an extension of the Hudson River Greenway. The vertically oriented north and south façades are clad in articulated precast concrete and grey marble. The building is capped by a gabled copper roof with battered buttresses, reminiscent of the waterfront structures that were once located in the area. A classically inspired rooftop gives the building a unique signature on the skyline.
A staggered-core system with a sky lobby at the eighteenth floor is designed to accommodate a single major tenant in the lower seventeen floors and multiple tenants above. The lower-level core is situated on the party wall with the adjoining medium-rise building, allowing for large open floor plates with maximum natural lighting. At the upper levels, where the exterior is exposed on all four sides, the core shifts to the center, facilitating a more conventional office rental floor plan.
