The shimmering profile of One Jackson Square – which wraps around an angular, eight-pointed lot where Eighth and Greenwich avenues meet in Manhattan – is really just what happens when a determined project team faces a daunting puzzle.
“Often, a project that has complex constraints or inputs results in a richer, more sophisticated output,” says David Penick, project officer for Hines, the developer of the $35 million, 35-unit luxury residential building that opened late last year. “[Architect Kohn Pedersen Fox’s] theme to unify the design of the building involved this undulating curtain wall wrapper, which took the regular zoning lot and made it uniform by virtue of this beautiful, unique glass and metal skin. It was a highly complex undertaking, a big challenge to accommodate these shapes, angles, curves.”