A new design has been revealed for 375 Lafayette Street, a proposed 19-story residential building in Noho, Manhattan. Designed by Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill and developed by Edward J. Minksoff Equities (EJME) and Edison Properties, the 195-foot-tall structure would span nearly 290,000 square feet within the NoHo Historic District Extension. The building is slated to yield 200 to 210 units, with 50 to 53 designated as affordable housing for 60 percent of the area median income (AMI). The project would also include 5,500 to 7,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space, and below-grade parking for 25 to 30 vehicles. The property is alternately addressed as 20 Great Jones Street and located at the northeast corner of Lafayette and Great Jones Streets.
The renderings show the bulk of 375 Lafayette Street’s superstructure rising along Great Jones Street. Setbacks on the southern and western faces will step up toward the corner and are depicted topped with landscaped terraces. The façade will be composed of tall rectangular windows framed by fluted red terracotta, while the windowless surfaces of the lot line walls will be clad in red brick.
Looking west on Great Jones Street. Rendering courtesy of Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill.
Looking south on Lafayette Street. Rendering courtesy of Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill.
The storefront and lower levels of the building. Rendering courtesy of Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill.
Looking up at the facade. Rendering courtesy of Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill.
The following rendering shows the previous design iteration by Thomas Juul Hansen, which would have featured a similar scale but a lighter façade composed of beige brick.
375 Lafayette Street. Designed by Thomas Juul Hansen.
An even earlier iteration from SHoP Architects would have featured a sleek contemporary façade largely composed of glass.
The outdated design proposal for 375 Lafayette Street by SHoP Architects.
The nearly 20,000-square-foot property is currently occupied by a parking facility, as seen in the below Google Street View image.
375 Lafayette Street. Image: Google
The site is located one block north of the Broadway–Lafayette/Bleecker Street subway station, served by the 6, B, D, F, and M trains.
A Community Board 2 meeting will take place on March 10, where the Landmarks Preservation Commission will review the proposed plans for 375 Lafayette Street.
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The new design is a big improvement.
While the massing of another design might be a little more graceful, this is hands down the nicest facade. Three designs… time to start building.
New design is a big improvement. It integrates well to the block and effectively anchors the corner architectually.
Interesting, very nicely textured. The open dentils are an unusual choice.
Personally I prefer the Thomas Juul Hansen design, but I don’t hate this. Actually surprised to read everyone else prefers this design the most.
Me too!
The SHoP design is pretty nice, but the SOM version is the best for sure.
According to AMNY, the Manhattan Community Board 2 rejected this proposal as being too tall and out of scale for the neighborhood. The LPC has the final decision.
The Board also rejected the 56 Great Jones St proposal shown by YIMBY on Feb 12. The cantilever projects into the historic district. They also rejected a proposal adjacent to the Merchant’s House Museum as construction would be too risky for the house.
Has the community board ever approved new housing?
Want the entire point of SoHo/NoHo to up-zone this area and add housing?
I see lots of people here lauding the worst, most soulless design by the worst, most soulless architectural firm, SOM. (Sorry, Gene Kaufmann, but they’ve ruined far more NYC blocks than you. Keep trying.)
You have strange opinions.
I do. But my taste in architecture is impeccable. I know dreck when I see it.
The older design was much better, especially the top. The new design color is better.
This is as boring and dull as it can get. It reflects the current Mamdani era
Van Winkle Mamdani just started and doesn’t have an era. You woke up just in time to begin the blame game.
Though you’re not wrong about boring.
Really quite lame to try to inject political trolling into something so overtly nonpolitical.
Seek help.
if the other designs are out of scale, then what about this one?
the red is nice, but the building looks even bigger and bulkier then the other two versions.
TJ Hansen version looks the best. maybe just change to the red color.
Also – since they put in housing for the poors, the taxes will be nothing – so other buildings will have to make up the difference via higher taxes. So we all pay for the mooching class to get fancy units that they couldn’t otherwise afford subsidized by their neighbors.. And we all get the out of context monolith. Should just be a boutique condo project. Yup, sold the ones willing to pay the most. Harsh? hardly, thats the way it goes. why exactly does someone deserve to be subsidized while others pay for it? That is utter nonsense and New Yorkers have been sold a bag of BS. Build as of right condos. sell the units sell the land. the developer puts the future in the new owners hands. no extras for nobody.
Very cool to see both ends of this block developed simultaneously, and it’s long overdue. There should simply be no above-ground parking anywhere in Manhattan, or anywhere near Downtown Brooklyn, for that matter.
👍🏼
Hope this is an opening salvo and that the massing can be made more appropriate
Massing is bad, but that’s fixable, just a lot of brown.
I really like the original Shop design, with a different massing,
The original shop design is hideous. New one is a massive improvement
This land is at the juncture of such incredible architecture along both Lafayette and Great Jones— the new building design should live up to it. Unfortunately, the current and previous two designs fall short; far short. We can do a lot better, New York, we’re not lacking talent. And, yes, the height probably needs to come way down.