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Adjaye Associates' 130 William debuts in Lower Manhattan

2023-06-30T19:15:00-04:00

David Adjaye’s statement-making first skyscraper design for the New York City market has debuted in Lower Manhattan, marking the culmination of a project that will stand as a testament to his attention to historical context and the elevation of craft in architecture.

The design for the 66-story 130 William residential tower in the heart of the Financial District includes a total of 242 units whose careful, well-appointed interiors are complemented by another 20,000 square feet of ground-floor retail and curated amenities apiece.

Image © Ivane Katamashvili

Photos of the newly-completed project reveal a range of built-in luxury options, including a small IMAX theater, two lounges, a golf simulator, basketball court, full-scale health club, infinity-edge spa pool, dry sauna, and yoga studio. The ten uppermost floors of the building are lined by loggia terraces, with a rooftop observation deck located on top that offers residents privileged views of the city’s skyline and harbor beyond....

David Adjaye and Aston Martin collaborate on residences and luxury car at 130 William in FiDi

2020-11-15T13:05:00-05:00

Five apartments for sale at Sir David Adjaye’s first New York City tower have been custom-designed by luxury carmaker Aston Martin. Located on the 59th and 60th floors of 130 William, a 66-story condo in the Financial District, the exclusive units come with a special edition Aston Martin DBX, an SUV designed in collaboration with Adjaye.

image courtesy of Aston Martin

130 William: tower crane at David Adjaye's NYC high-rise dismantled

2020-07-21T14:05:00-04:00

Whether you are a tower crane otaku, adrenaline junky, or simply keeping up to date with David Adjaye's first NYC tower: construction crews at the 130 William site in Manhattan posted a video and some photos of the recent crane dismantling.

The journey of the tower crane dismantle at #130William! : @uscranerigging pic.twitter.com/2MaD2nIr8a
— Adjaye Associates (@AdjayeAssoc) July 15, 2020

Try not to get sweaty palms.

The hulking Potain MR 608 had done its job heaving 66 floors of the building's signature hand-cast facade into place and was safely removed from the 800-foot-tall structure.

Close-ups of the unique outer shell with its arched windows were shared with us earlier this year by architectural photographer Paul Clemence.

Credit: Paul Clemence from ARCHI-PHOTO.

Paul Clemence's mesmerizing construction photos of David Adjaye's 130 William tower

2020-02-05T15:47:00-05:00

Construction for David Adjaye's first NYC tower, 130 William, is scheduled to be complete this year. Topping out at 800 feet last May, the luxury condominium tower will have 66 floors wrapped in a hand-cast concrete facade featuring bronze detailing and oversized arched windows. Lightstone was the project's developer, while Hill West Architects was architect of record.

Architectural photographer Paul Clemence has been capturing the construction progress of Adjaye's anticipated tower — whether it's zooming into the mesmerizing rows of arched windows or picturesque frames of the tower emerging into the cityscape of Manhattan's Financial District, with neighboring skyscrapers like One WTC and Frank Gehry's 8 Spruce Street in view. Scroll down for some photos that Clemence shared with Archinect:

Credit: Paul Clemence from ARCHI-PHOTO.

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David Adjaye’s first NYC skyscraper in FiDi tops out at 800 feet

2019-05-16T13:56:00-04:00

Construction at 130 William Street, starchitect David Adjaye’s first skyscraper in New York City, topped out at 800 feet this week. The 66-story tower is making its mark on the Financial District with its hand-cast façade featuring large-scale arched windows and bronze detailing. When complete, it will house 242 residences ranging from $780,990 for a studio to $20,000,000 for a four-bedroom, full-floor penthouse.

Photo by Chris Coe for Optimist Consulting

Construction update: David Adjaye's NYC skyscraper gets its hand-cast concrete facade installed

2018-10-12T15:07:00-04:00

David Adjaye’s Financial District condo at 130 William Street has made significant progress since construction started earlier this year. New construction site photos by Field Condition are giving us the first peak at the distinctive hand-cast concrete facade. The photos also offer a peek at the bronze-accented frames of the windows—this bronze theme will continue in the apartments with Adjaye also designing many of the interior fixtures that will be done up in burnished bronze.

Curbed New York has some fresh construction photos of the David Adjaye-designed 800-foot, 66-story 130 William Street condo tower where workers are currently installing the building's most striking feature, the hand-cast concrete facade with its bronze-trimmed window frames.

Find the full set of photos over on the Field Condition website.

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Featured today on FieldCondition.com: facade panels are going up at David Adjaye’s @130william residential condo tower in the Financial District. The panels are hand cast textured concrete with a smooth concrete border at the bronze window frames.

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David Adjaye reveals interiors for luxury FiDi condo, his first NYC tower

2018-06-19T13:29:00-04:00

With construction officially underway and sales launching at 130 William Street later this month, it’s time to take a closer look inside the 800-foot skyscraper designed by David Adjaye. Interiors at the 66-story Financial District condo tower contain luxurious finishes made of materials sourced from all over the world. Each of the 244 residences, which range from studio to four-bedroom units, will feature oversized arch windows and wide-plank white oak flooring.

Rendering via Binyan

“In defining the design for 130 William, I not only sought to celebrate New York City’s heritage of masonry architecture, referencing the historical architecture once pervasive upon one of the city’s earliest streets,” Adjaye said. “However, and more importantly, 130 William has been crafted to focus on the new possibilities of urban, vertical living.”

Rendering via Binyan

Adjaye custom-designed the hardware and fixtures, including faucets, showerheads, and door handles, with a burnished bronze finish thro...

Construction of David Adjaye's NYC skyscraper kicks into next gear

2018-04-05T13:54:00-04:00

Last December, plans were unfurled for 130 William, a reverential new skyscraper to jostle amongst the spired giants of lower Manhattan. [...] we can note that the project has achieved two small construction milestones in its journey against the sky: crews have reached street level and standing upright is a red kangaroo crane that will bring the rectangular tower to its full 66-floor, nearly 800-foot-tall summit.

Rendering courtesy of Lightstone.

Fully revealed only a few weeks ago, the Lightstone-developed, Adjaye Associates-designed 800-foot luxury condo tower is already making construction progress with its crane fully installed and prepared to stack 66 floors wrapped in a hand-cast concrete facade with bronze detailing towards the Manhattan sky.

David Adjaye’s 800-foot, hand-cast concrete condo tower in NY's Financial District revealed

2017-12-15T13:35:00-05:00

Developer Lightstone has finally presented the first official reveal of 130 William, the highly anticipated condominium tower designed by British architect Sir David Adjaye. His first tower in city, Adjaye will be adding to Manhattan's iconic skyline with a 800-foot, 66-story residential tower in the Financial district.

Rendering courtesy of Lightstone.

The newly released design is a marked departure from early conceptual studies of the tower, which showed a gold prism against rigid rows of arched windows. The windows remain arched, but are varied in scheme and plans for the tower now include an additional 50 extra feet and an extra 5 stories. Adjaye's design has also traded gold for concrete, a refreshing break from the sleek steel and heavily glassed high rises that have become ubiquitous in this part of the city.

Rendering courtesy of Lightstone.

Featuring a façade of hand-cast concrete with bronze detailing, his design makes nods to the past and a...

REVEALED: David Adjaye’s Wall Street Tower, his first skyscraper in NYC

2017-05-23T14:45:00-04:00

When it opens in 2019, the building is expected to be one of the tallest in the neighborhood. Views from the skyscraper include the Statue of Liberty, the Woolworth Building, City Hall Park and the East River. The condos will range from $630,000 studios to $4.7 million four-bedrooms.

Three years ago, starchitect David Adjaye completed his first project in NYC, an affordable housing complex in Harlem called the Sugar Hill Development.

Now that he's garnered international fame for his National Museum of African American History and Culture in DC, Adjaye is coming back to the big apple to build his first skyscraper in the city-- a 61-story, 750-foot-tall condominium condo in the Financial District. Known as the Wall Street Tower, it appears as a gold prism against rigid rows of arched windows.