111 West 57th Street is a prestigious residential building situated in the vibrant neighborhood of Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The residences within 111 West 57th Street offer exquisite living spaces with high-end finishes and breathtaking views of the cityscape.
With a total height of 1,428 feet, the residential tower at 111 West 57th Street is among the tallest buildings in New York City. We achieved that goal by carefully shaping the tower’s profile, and by developing an innovative approach to using an authentic material from the golden age of the Manhattan skyscraper: terra-cotta.
For 111 West 57th Street, blocks were modeled, extruded, glazed, and then stacked into an involuted pattern.
The skyscraper features glass curtain walls and a bronze and terracotta facade on both the west and east faces. Staggering those elements across the facade creates a distinctive moiré that changes dramatically when seen in different lights or from various distances.
Mandated setbacks were multiplied where the building form contacts the sky-exposure plane, resulting in a feathered rather than a stepped profile. The setbacks serve as sites for a finial at the top of each column of the terra-cotta ornament that rises on the east and west facades.