New York Soho and the Village Art and Architecture Tour

This tour is organized by Build Tours

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From the historically diverse communities to cosmopolitan hot spots, the Lower East Side, Bowery, and SoHo have a fascinating history captured by the area’s architecture. During this tour, we discover this history by looking at some of the defining architectural typologies of these neighborhoods including the cast iron industrial spaces of Soho and tenement apartments of the LES as well stand-out contemporary buildings such as the New Museum by SANAA, Prada flagship boutique by Rem Koolhaas, and Copper Union by Morphosis.

Important Projects Featured on this Tour:

Washington Sq. Park 1827
Washington Sq. Arch, Stanford White, 1889
NYU Bobst Library, Phillip Johnson, 1971
Washington Mews, Maynicke & Franke (converted), 1830’s (1916)
Jefferson Market Library, Frederick Clarke Withers, 1874-77
40 Bond Street, Herzog and deMeuron, 2008
Public Hotel, Herzog and deMeuron, 2013
City Hall, J. Mangin & J. McComb, Jr., 1812
Tweed Courthouse, Kellum Leopold Eidlitz, 1881
Hall of Records / Surrogate’s Court, Horgan & Slattery, 1907
Municipal Building, McKim, Mead & White, 1914
Engine Co 31, Napoleon LeBrun & Sons, 1895
Chatham Towers, Kelly & Gruzen, 1965
Eldridge St. Synagogue, Herter Brothers, 1886
Lower E. Side Tenement Museum, 1863
Bowery Savings Bank, McKim, Mead & White, 1895
New Museum, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA), 2007
Little Singer Building, Ernest Flagg, 1904
Condict (Bayard Building), Louis Sullivan (Architect), 1898
NYU Silver Towers, I.M. Pei & Associates, 1966
51 Astor Place, Fumihiko Maki, 2014
Cooper Union, 1850
Cooper Union Engineering, Morphosis, 2009