Manhattan · NYC landmark
University Village
100 and 110 Bleecker Street and 505 LaGuardia Place · Manhattan, New York City
Three concrete towers show a major experiment in postwar housing design.
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NYFE Summary
Urban renewal cleared the site for a development that combined university housing with a middle-income cooperative. Two towers housed New York University faculty; the third housed cooperative residents. The project replaced the earlier pattern of small city blocks with a large shared site.
The three towers turn around an open central space in a pinwheel arrangement. Repeated concrete grids project from their central cores. Their placement changes the gaps and overlapping surfaces seen from the surrounding streets.
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