The Verdesian on the Park (New York City, New York)

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240-foot, 26-story postmodern residential building completed in 2006. Designed by Rafael Pelli of Pelli Clark Pelli and Schuman Lichtenstein Claman & Efron, it was the first residential high-rise structure in the United States to be award Platinum LEED certification by the U. S. Green Building Council. The façade incorporates red brick, saw-​cut bluestone, zinc, and — to recall the lightness of many turn-​of-​the-​century downtown buildings — a large glass surface. It has a 2-story base of bluestone, with rustications on the piers. Above the base, the brick piers have serrated edges, while zinc intermediate piers further divide the facade into a grid of windows. The windows wrap around open corners The brick piers give way to horizontally-banded zinc at the 13th & 14th floors, where there is a deep setback at the southern end and smaller setbacks at the north and east sides. The upper tower continues with the same pattern of red brick and zinc piers, with the top two floors featuring the same banded zinc.

The Versedian contains 252 apartments, and has an underground parking garage accessed from Murray Street. The Verdesian is linked to the Solaire’s blackwater treatment plant, which recycles water from bathrooms and kitchens for use in toilets and the cooling tower. The building also harvests rainwater and can store 10,000 gallons of recycled water for irrigation of the rooftop garden.