University Village
- Architect
- James Ingo Freed
- Year
- 1966
- Style
- Mid-Century Modern
- City
- Manhattan, NY
University Village is a complex of three residential towers in Greenwich Village, built in the 1960s and owned by New York University. It includes 505 LaGuardia Place, a housing cooperative, and the Silver Towers at 100 and 110 Bleecker Street, home to NYU faculty and graduate students, all designed by modern architects James Ingo Freed and I. M. Pei.
the building
The plaza and its sculpture. The towers surround a central plaza featuring the Bust of Sylvette, a sculpture by Carl Nesjar based on a design by Pablo Picasso.
Modernist tower massing. The buildings present the blunt, repetitive concrete tower forms typical of 1960s modern architecture, a stark contrast to the low-rise Greenwich Village streets around them.
the style
The complex was designed in the Modern architecture idiom by James Ingo Freed and I. M. Pei, with the plain, geometric tower forms and open plaza arrangement characteristic of large-scale modernist housing of the era.
More on Mid-Century Modernthe architect
James Ingo Freed designed University Village along with I. M. Pei, working in the modern style during the 1960s.
significance
The complex's original buildings and courtyard are a New York City designated landmark (LP-02300, designated 11/18/2008).
nearby
- Bayard-Condict Building
- Robbins & Appleton Building
- Building at 376-380 Lafayette Street
- Puck Building
- 99 Wooster Street
- Judson Memorial Church