This glass building developed by the infamous Trump sidestepped zoning regulations for residential towers (it is too tall) by becoming a "hotel"--in practice, this means that residents can only legally inhabit their apartments for part of a year. 

Trump Soho Hotel

 Located on the southernmost parcel in Battery Park City overlooking New York Harbor, this tower is comprised of the Ritz-Carlton hotel on the lower 12 floors with 26 condominium floors above. It also serves as the home of the Skyscraper Museum. 

Ritz Carlton Downtown Hotel Condominium Tower

A gift from the Kingdom of the Netherlands to New York City in honor of the 400th Anniversary in 2009 of Henry Hudson`s arrival in New York Harbor. The pavilion and plein (Dutch for "plaza") is located in Peter Minuit Plaza on State Street at the intersection of Whitehall Street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan.An area to showcase art, design, and horticulture, it was conceived as an "outdoor living room" where both scheduled and spontaneous activities can take place alongside public markets and a state of the art, food and information pavilion.

The formal figure of the structure becomes increasingly more fluid and dispersed away from this centre as it opens up onto the immediate landscape.&amp;nbsp;

New Amsterdam Plein and Pavilion

Essex Crossing, designed by Handel Architects, has a 1000 apartments 


in the 1.65 million sf project is on the largest parcel of underdeveloped land south of 96th Street. 

The Essex

Essex Crossing

Handel Architects was founded in 1994. With over 200 architects and designers in New York, San Francisco, Boston, and Hong Kong, the work encompasses projects like the National September 11 Memorial, urban infrastructure and master planning projects, high-density mixed-use developments, multi-family projects across all income bands, hotels, corporate headquarters, and buildings for non-profit, institutional and educational clients around the world.

Designed for the Department of Parks and Recreation, the Idlewild Park Salt Marsh Environmental Science Learning Center offers classroom and exhibit space in the Idlewild Park Saltwater Marsh in Queens. By its location and form, the building tells the story of water in our urban habitat, and acts like a porch to the wetland landscape beyond. Classrooms, an exhibit hall, and the entry space all frame the views around the site.

The High Line pioneer is a big but surprisingly retiring building, deftly disguising its bulk and
leaving the limelight to its neighbors.
It's an interesting building to examine up close, especially from the High Line.

This building by the world-renowned Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron attempts to reimagine the cast-iron buildings that abound in NoHo and SoHo by encasing the exterior structural elements in curved green glass. The sculptural aluminum gate was created from a collage of graffiti tags.  

Handel Architects LLP

SITES