35 Hudson Yards

The tower, which is also the tallest residential building in Hudson Yards at 1,000 feet, comprises 143 private residences, an Equinox-branded luxury hotel, an Equinox fitness club and spa, first-class office space, and ground-floor retail. To incorporate the entire program within the 1.1 million-square-foot tower, each part of the program is stacked vertically on floorplates of different sizes, with transitions expressed by a series of setbacks that twist upward around the tower. The building is draped in glass and limestone pleats, a composition that unifies the elements stacked within and sets the building apart from the rest of Hudson Yards. The interplay of materials creates a dynamic effect, making the building appear more transparent or opaque from different vantage points. The stone also expresses a natural quality seldom seen in today’s skyscrapers, with visible fossils and slight variations of color that change as pedestrians walk around the building.

Hudson Yards is the largest private real estate development in the history of the United States, and the largest development in New York City since Rockefeller Center was built in the 1930s. This six-block area on Manhattan’s West Side, comprising 28 acres over active railroad tracks and tunnels, reimagines a formerly underdeveloped part of the city into a residential and commercial district with new open space. At the heart of this neighborhood is 35 Hudson Yards, a mixed-use tower designed by SOM.