57-story tower planned for Tribeca

 Swiss architecture firm Herzog and de Meuron plans a 57-story tower at 56 Leonard Street, on property purchased from the New York Law School. The 410,000 square foot building will be stacked glass cubes with only two units per floor. The tower will be built as-of-right. The city nixed a Costas Kondylis-designed 58-story, 140-unit tower planned by developer Izak Senbahar’s Alexico, which would have been 480,000 square feet.