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160 Leroy Street
Set along the West Village’s Hudson River waterfront, 160 Leroy Street offers 57 unique luxury condominiums enclosed within a curvilinear white concrete façade with decorative diamond-faceted floor-to-ceiling windows atop an illuminated base.
To support the building’s rippling sculptural form, DeSimone designed a reinforced concrete structural frame, tailored to resolve the complex geometry, load paths, and façade anchorage—ensuring efficient performance, stability, and durability.
| Client | Ian Schrager Company, Ares Management, Weinberg Properties, William Gottlieb Real Estate |
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| Architects: | Herzog & de Meuron and S9 |
| Size | 12 Stories | 185,000 SF (17,187 SM) | 57 Units |
| Office: | New York |
| Completion: | 2018 |
We precisely shaped cast-in-place slabs and strategically placed columns to follow the multiple curvatures of the architectural envelope and accommodate the wave-like, open floor plans. Our carefully coordinated slab-edges aligned the extraordinarily large-paned, floor-to-ceiling window wall with the undulating façade profile.
At street level, an elevated concrete base effectively lifts the building up to protect residential units from potential flooding. We efficiently engineered this typically bulky transfer condition to accommodate public space, architectural lighting elements, and integrated mechanical systems. Above this podium, we introduced additional localized reinforcement to support a landscaped interior courtyard and 70-foot indoor pool, both of which imposed atypical loads and dynamic considerations.
Demonstrating DeSimone’s creative application of conventional concrete systems, 160 Leroy effectively balances efficient performance and resiliency measures with architectural ambition.
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