300 Lafayette Street

Workplaces
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New York, NY
View of the building along Lafayette Street. Photography by Bruce Damonte.
View of 300 Lafayette from Houston Street, with the Puck Building to the east. Photography by Bruce Damonte.
Green terraces maximize access to natural light and nature, supporting the health and well-being of occupants. Photography by Bruce Damonte.
Biomorphic geometries inspired by Louis Sullivan, the architect of the nearby Bayard-Condict Building, are expressed in the undulating lobby furnishings. Photography by Bruce Damonte.
The building integrates living plants within a fifth façade of restorative green space, a feature that is rarely available in workplace environments. Photography by Bruce Damonte.
Section perspective view of the fourth floor terrace garden. Photography by Bruce Damonte.
300 Lafayette is a contemporary vision of the architectural heritage of the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District. Photography by Bruce Damonte.
Workplaces
New York, NY
View of the building along Lafayette Street. Photography by Bruce Damonte.
View of 300 Lafayette from Houston Street, with the Puck Building to the east. Photography by Bruce Damonte.
Green terraces maximize access to natural light and nature, supporting the health and well-being of occupants. Photography by Bruce Damonte.
Biomorphic geometries inspired by Louis Sullivan, the architect of the nearby Bayard-Condict Building, are expressed in the undulating lobby furnishings. Photography by Bruce Damonte.
The building integrates living plants within a fifth façade of restorative green space, a feature that is rarely available in workplace environments. Photography by Bruce Damonte.
Section perspective view of the fourth floor terrace garden. Photography by Bruce Damonte.
300 Lafayette is a contemporary vision of the architectural heritage of the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District. Photography by Bruce Damonte.
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300 Lafayette Street was a fragment of underdeveloped space left over from the confluence of Lafayette and Houston Streets and the construction of the subways below. Historically home to a gas station and billboards, this prominent intersection is the result of past planning decisions that transformed Houston Street into one of Manhattan’s major cross-town traffic arteries. 300 Lafayette completes the block and reinforces the character of the urban space while creating a bold statement about the city and its future.

2019
70,000 SF
300 Lafayette is a modern vision of the neighborhood’s aesthetics, materiality and detailing of natural analogues.
A custom wood installation in the lobby was the result of close collaboration with SITU Studio.

Inspired by the architecture of the surrounding SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District, 300 Lafayette is a modern vision of the neighborhood’s aesthetics, materiality and detailing of natural analogues. SoHo’s typical expansive glass façades, made possible by cast iron building technology, are expressed by ordered but increasingly complex details, culminating with a flourish of ornamental organic forms and biomimetic patterns.

The pattern of the terrace railing is inspired by the iconic logo of Gaseteria, a gas station that once occupied the site.

300 Lafayette’s ornamental flourish will replace natural analogues with living plants, a fifth façade of restorative green space rarely available in workplace environments. Minimal frames, biomimetic patterns, balconies, and planted green terraces, created in collaboration with MKM Landscape Architecture, will create articulation and depth on the façade, while maximizing access to natural light. These restorative green planes will be visible from nearly every workplace and from the shared urban space of the street to promote health, well-being and productivity.

Post-tension cables stretched prior to concrete pour. 300 Lafayette is one of the first post-tension concrete constructed buildings in New York City.

300 Lafayette is uniquely positioned to tell an environmental and urban story of growth and change. By showcasing environmental stewardship, the new office building will make a statement that merges ethics and aesthetics with a coherent vision while reconnecting the neighborhood and its residents with ecological systems and setting a new standard for sustainable workplace design.

Collaborators

This project is developed by LargaVista Properties and Related Companies.

The project team also includes:

Bliss Fasman Inc., Bohler Engineering, Curtainwall Design Consulting, Gilsanz Murray Steficek Engineers and Architects, Higgins Quasebarth, Longman Lindsey, March Associates, MKM Landscape Architecture, SITU Studio, Mueser Rutledge, Studio 5 Partnership, Thornton Tomasetti, VDA, Wafra Capital Partners Inc., William Vitacco Associates (WVA), and WSP