Via 57 West

625 West 57th Street | also 657 West 57th Street, 629 West 57th Street | Hell's Kitchen | built 2013

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  1. 2007

    Durst starts meeting Bjarke Ingels about a hemmed-in lot first eyed for data or health-care use

    After several meetings with developer Douglas Durst that began in 2007, Bjarke Ingels won his first major American commission, which led to a New York office for his firm. The West 57th Street lot sat beside a Con Ed power station and a sanitation garage, facing the noisy West Side Highway. A Durst spokesman said housing was not the first thought, as the company had considered a data or health-care facility.

    Source: architecturalrecord.com

  2. 2013

    The Durst Organization begins construction of Bjarke Ingels's Via 57 West

    Bjarke Ingels Group, the Danish firm behind the design, shapes a residential tower around a green plaza and calls the form a "courtscraper." The Durst Organization starts construction in 2013 on the site between 11th and 12th Avenues. The building has been described as a cross between a European-style courtyard block and a Manhattan skyscraper.

    Source: Wikipedia

  3. 2016

    A facade of 1,200 unique curved steel panels forms Via 57 West's hyperbolic paraboloid wall

    Via 57 West is a rectangle at its base, and three walls meet at a point 467 feet up. To get there, its biggest wall, which faces southwest, is shaped as a hyperbolic paraboloid. That wall's unitized facade uses 1,200 unique curved stainless-steel panels, fabricated off-site with an abrasive-blasted finish. BIG partner Beat Schenk, who led the project, called the element the heart of the building.

    Source: architecturalrecord.com

  4. 2016

    March

    Via 57 West welcomes its first tenants around a 22,000-square-foot courtyard

    A Hyperallergic piece in March 2016 described the new tower, whose center holds a 22,000-square-foot courtyard with a winding, gradually rising promenade. When fully planted it was to hold 50 varieties of native plants and 43 tree species. The 709 apartments, 20 percent of them affordable, come in 178 floor plans, and amenities include a pool, a basketball court, a golf simulator, and screening and poker rooms.

    Source: hyperallergic.com

  5. 2016

    Via 57 West collects a string of top design prizes, from Emporis to the International Highrise Award

    In 2016 Via 57 West won the Emporis Best Skyscraper design award, the CTBUH Tall Building Award for Best Tall Building Americas and the International Highrise Award. The American Institute of Architects gave it its Housing Award in the multifamily category in 2017.

    “It was given the Emporis Best Skyscraper design award in 2016. It also won the 2016 CTBUH Tall Building Awards for Best Tall Building Americas…”

    Source: Wikipedia

  6. 2016

    Via 57 West is completed as a 467-foot pyramid-shaped tower

    The 709-unit tower is finished with a steeply sloped facade that rises toward the northeast above a green plaza. It wins the 2016 CTBUH award for Best Tall Building Americas and a 2017 AIA Housing Award in the multifamily category. One reviewer compares its shape to a quarter of a watermelon with a chunk cut from the middle.

    Source: Wikipedia

  7. 2017

    A Landmark Theatres cinema opens at the base of Via 57 West

    Landmark Theatres opens a movie theater with eight screens on the tower's ground floor. It struggles to draw moviegoers, in part because the site is far from public transit, and it closes in August 2020 after nearly three years of operation.

    Source: Wikipedia

  8. 2020

    August

    The Landmark cinema at the base of Via 57 West closes after nearly three years

    The eight-screen Landmark Theatres cinema on the ground floor shut in August 2020 after almost three years, having found it hard to draw audiences, in part because the location is far from public transit. Look Cinemas leased the space in February 2023 and opened a dine-in theater that May, which closed in January 2026.

    Source: Wikipedia

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