166 Perry Street (New York City, New York)

 condominiums, 2008_construction

105-foot, 8-story modernist residential building completed in 2008. Designed by Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture of Asymptote Architecture, the building has 21 residences ranging in size from 1126 to 6845 square feet. The avant-garde design features a futuristic blue glass curtain wall with a variety of angled facets. Above the 6th floor, the 2-story penthouse is setback with a vertical facade behind a terrace. At the street level, the façade of 166 Perry Street is sheathed in a perforated grey metal scrim with computer-generated, laser-cut circular openings. At the entrance, these panels give way to a recessed space outfitted with two mechanized single-pane blue glass doors leading onto a lobby resembling a futuristic space station.