One Jackson Square

One Jackson Square rises at the sharp collision of Greenwich and Eighth Avenues, where two street grids meet to form a six-sided, wedge-shaped site in the heart of the Greenwich Village Historic District. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF), the building steps down from eleven stories to seven, north to south, easing its scale against the low-rise brick townhouses around it. Its glass façade ripples in undulating ribbon bands, alternating convex and concave panes of random width, so the surface seems to bend and breathe along the street.

Completed in 2010, the building uses its curved glazing to resolve an awkward site geometry, masking the unusual angle where the two avenues converge while still echoing the masonry tones and rhythm of its historic neighbors. It's a quietly radical addition to a protected district: a fluid, glass counterpoint to brick rowhouses, achieving LEED Silver certification through green roofs, daylighting, and high-performance glazing.