Pioneer in cast-iron architecture James Bogardus is suspected to have designed this majestic half-block Renaissance Revival building, constructed for the typemaking magnate George Bruce.

Originally built in the 16th-century Loire Valley chateaux style, this former fire house is now a civic center.

Originally designed as a printing facility for tenant Puck Magazine, this Romanesque Revival building is easily identifiable by two Henry Baerer gilded statues of its Shakespearean namesake.

The only Louis Sullivan building in New York showcases the architect’s signature Chicago style, with ornate organic designs executed in white terra cotta that capture the attention of pedestrians and draw the eye upward.

This building by the world-renowned Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron attempts to reimagine the cast-iron buildings that abound in NoHo and SoHo by encasing the exterior structural elements in curved green glass. The sculptural aluminum gate was created from a collage of graffiti tags.

Courtesy of Andre Balazs, developer of the Highline’s Standard Hotel, the undulating façade of this luxury apartment building disrupts the relatively flat plane of Lafayette Street and acts as a marker for Petrosino Square.