Via 57 West stands at 625 West 57th Street in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. Bjarke Ingels Group designed it, and it was Bjarke Ingels's first New York project. Durst Fetner Residential commissioned BIG in spring 2009. Construction began in 2013 and finished in 2016. The article gives the style as modern and the material as concrete.
The building rises 467 feet (142 m) and holds 709 residential units. BIG calls it a "courtscraper," a hybrid of a European perimeter block and a Manhattan high-rise. Angular balconies surround a green plaza, and the northern facade has balconies skewed at 45 degrees.
It won the CTBUH Best Tall Building Americas award in 2016 and the International Highrise Award that year. A ground-floor cinema closed in 2020, and a later dine-in theater opened in 2023 and closed in January 2026. The article gives no public hours.
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