Following the Avenir, another major skyscraper project has received a thumbs-up for construction in Manhattan, New York City. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF), the eye-catching tower will be the only residential skyscraper to be built on the World Trade Center site.

It will feature an attractive design of interlocking forms, with a large podium and multiple terraces. Its facade will be enlivened by metal-frame windows and solid panels, contrasting with the surrounding all-glass office towers, such as SOM’s nearby One World Trade Center.

The building was originally intended as an office tower but has undergone a redesign to become a residential tower. It will contain 1,200 apartments, of which around 400 will be deemed affordable – with 20 percent of those given preference to 9/11 survivors and first responders. The residential floors will be arranged into “vertical neighborhoods” organized around shared amenities. Elsewhere in the skyscraper there will also be some retail space on lower floors, plus some office space.

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