This 5-storey residential tower continues the practice’s investigations into the nature of the user-building interaction, exploring the dynamic between the city and its green areas. Located on the corner of Lexington and 53rd Street, it replaces the old YWCA building in Midtown Manhattan. Formally, it responds to the precedent set by two neighboring twentieth-century Modernist icons – SOM’s 21-storey Lever House of 1952 and Mies van der Rohe’s 38-story Seagram Building of 1958.  The building has a simple, minimalist geometric form, it replies the boxes surrounding, and stacks them one on top of the other in various sizes and heights. 
The cantilevered balconies create a dynamic rhythm to the facade and provide a series of small private gardens.