A recently completed project by COOKFOX brings a 10-story office tower shaped by "biophilic design" principles to a site directly overlooking the High Line in New York City. 

The 160,000-square-foot building includes 15,000 square feet of outdoor terraces, with each level of the tower featuring some sort of physical outdoor connection. 

Ground floor areas are marked by an entry lobby and a large garage door that opens along the entire width of one storefront, which is shown in the images above as an art gallery space. 

Created according to a light-and-air approach to office design, the includes "Large, light-filled floors with a state-of-the-art overhead air distribution system are adaptable to a wide range of users, engineered for comfort and high-performance, with highly filtered outdoor air and high-performance building controls," according to the firm website. 

Describing the landscape terraces, the architects write, "Outside areas are populated solely with native species, connecting tenants to the natural history of the land."

These areas, along the floors that line up with the High Line, feature more generous terraces that are designed to create an illusion of the park spilling into the building. 

Inside, spare, concrete structural columns and exposed concrete slabs stand ready to be adapted to the needs of future tenants.