Overview

About Astor Place, 445 Lafayette Street

With its undulating plan, this residential tower is one of the most distinctive in the city.

Erected by The Related Companies, one of the developers of the Time-Warner Center at Columbus Circle, it was designed by Gwathmey Siegel & Associates, which designed the expansion of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on Fifth Avenue and the 52-story Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and Co. Building that was completed in 1990 on Times Square.

Gwathmey Siegel & Associates came to fame as one of the "New York Five" group of architects who in the 1960's focused on the white, modernist style associated with Le Corbusier.

With its sinuous curves, this tower is New York's answer to Chicago's famous Lake Point Tower designed by Shipporeit & Associates, a reflective glass structure whose curves wrap around a three-point plan that is one of the landmarks of modern architecture. This tower is much smaller than the Chicago building, which is also more prominently sited on Chicago's lakefront.

This tower, however, does have considerable visibility as it is at the northern terminus of Lafayette Street at East Eighth Street. It is also directly across Fourth Avenue from the landmark Cooper Union Building where East Eighth Street becomes St. Mark's Place, the gateway to the East Village.

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