The Urban Glass House is a ground-up 40-unit luxury condominium development in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan. The last project designed by the Pritzker Prize Winning Architect Phillip Johnson, with interiors by Annabelle Selldorf, The Urban Glass House is a 21st-century reinterpretation of Johnson’s iconic 1949 Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut. Located just one block east of the Hudson River, the 12-story building possesses sweeping views of the New York Harbor and the Statue of Liberty to the south and the low-rise West Village neighborhood directly to the north.

The Sponsor acquired the site by purchasing a fee-above-a-plane, thereby allowing the full development of the site with the ownership of the retail unit to be retained by the seller, The retail unit was constructed by the Sponsor and delivered to the seller upon completion. The seller had previously sought approval through the Board of Standards and Appeals (BSA) to construct a residential tower in excess of 30 stories. Also designed by Phillip Johnson, the project (dubbed the “Sculpture for Living”) was rejected by the BSA. Nevertheless, the project as finally approved by the BSA is substantially larger than that which would have been allowed under the subsequent rezoning of the area.