William Beaver House - 15 William Street - Condo - by Tsao & McKown Architects

**londonlawyer** · May 16th, 2011, 01:25 AM

This tower has a nice shape. If it had a sleek glass facade, it would be very nice. It's still a pretty nice tower though.

**RoldanTTLB** · August 9th, 2011, 10:22 AM

From beside.

From above.

**lofter1** · August 9th, 2011, 02:18 PM

What a sorry pile that beaver is.

**TallGuy** · August 9th, 2011, 04:15 PM

This building looks like it was snatched from Montreal or some damp, cold Northern European city and shoved into lower Manhattan. Besides being just bad, it doesn't belong. Horrible.

**antinimby** · August 9th, 2011, 05:09 PM

Welcome to the new New York, where bad and/or cheap architecture is all the rage.

**Tectonic** · August 9th, 2011, 09:53 PM

Seriously. It's really an disaster.

**Jacks** · August 9th, 2011, 10:19 PM

Originally Posted by antinimby

Welcome to the new New York, where bad and/or cheap architecture is all the rage.

Signed,

Tower Verre
Beekman Tower
Hearst Tower
Bank of America Tower
New York Times Tower

Wait until you see The Drake.

**LightningEagle** · August 9th, 2011, 11:11 PM

I think you need to get your eyes open!!

**antinimby** · August 9th, 2011, 11:13 PM

Originally Posted by Jacks

Signed,
Tower Verre
Beekman Tower
Hearst Tower
Bank of America Tower
New York Times Tower
Wait until you see The Drake.

The bad and cheap outnumber those five you mentioned by a mile. (New York would be truly pathetic if it didn't even have a handful of good ones).

Heck, Kaufmans alone can fill this whole page...oh wait, make that 35 pages!

**lofter1** · August 10th, 2011, 12:58 AM

Originally Posted by Jacks

Wait until you see The Drake.

How tall will it be? Rumors abound.

**Derek2k3** · October 31st, 2011, 02:23 AM

riomaro

There were rumors of a tower Downtown designed by Allied Works (they did the Museum of Art & Design on Columbus Circle), Guess it was 15 William all along. It looks slightly taller and a lighter looking tower would've been more appropriate for the dark canyons. It resembles the tower proposed for the stock exchange pre 9/11. I wonder why they dropped it. More images in the link.

15 William Street
Allied Works
http://www.alliedworks.com/projects/15-william-st/

Fifteen William is a 50-story, 400,000sf condominium tower on an irregular site in lower Manhattan. Situated a short distance from the East River and Wall Street, the tower is set within a district of older stone and masonry structures that define the heart of the financial district.

Developed for the hotelier Andre Balazs, the Allied Works design addressed a range of complex issues including overall massing, structure, materials, building envelope and unit configurations. The design takes advantage of view corridors along the streets that define its corner site, and subtly modulates the rhythm, relief and differing transparencies of its glass skin to interact with the form, light and atmosphere of the city.