Today New York developers Izak Senbahar and Simon Elias unveiled the design of 56 Leonard Street, a 57-story condominium tower that is now under construction in Manhattan’s Tribeca Historic District. It will be the first skyscraper realized by Switzerland–based Herzog & de Meuron.

The 2001 Pritzker Prize winners Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, who founded their firm in 1978, completed their first building in New York just last year. That project, the 11-story upscale residential building 40 Bond, features a gate in which graffiti was transformed into three-dimensional ornament, and rounded green-glass mullions that evoke the cast-iron facades of the city’s industrial buildings. The design of 56 Leonard Street equally promises to upend expectations of luxury residential skyscrapers in a place still booming with them. (Homes at 56 Leonard Street will start at $3.5 million, and prices are expected to reach $33 million.) Whereas many of these buildings feature highly transparent skins or gestural facades, 56 Leonard Street joins a smaller family of buildings whose forms pose alternatives to the ubiquitous terraced setback scheme.