“We wanted to show how a building could be a good neighbor,” Jeanne Gang tells RECORD of her firm’s new speculative office building beside the High Line in New York, 40 Tenth Avenue, also called Solar Carve. The Studio Gang founding principal admits to being “shocked” at what zoning would have allowed them to erect at the site. The parcel is situated in an already densely built section of the High Line, at the corner of 14th Street facing the busy West Side Highway in one direction and two other buildings—including the broad, 18-story Standard Hotel—that straddle the elevated park in the other. “If we were to have built our building as of right, it would have shaded the gardens and killed all the plants that were already there,” says Gang.