For the Moxy Lower East Side, Stonehill Taylor conceived a 16-story wedding-cake-on-a-base-style massing with a modern façade to echo the hotel’s location on the historic Bowery. The first six floors conform to the heights of the neighborhood’s traditional six-story mercantile and tenement buildings while the remaining stories are set back dramatically, harmonizing with more recent vertical construction. The exterior palette–black metal, glass, and concrete–lends a timeless feel and provides contrast to the vibrant interiors, which reflect the Bowery’s ever-evolving persona.

Guests enter the hotel through a hexagonal vestibule and encounter a bridge open to below and flanked by curving, twin staircases that descend to the hotel's signature restaurant. Across the bridge is a spacious lobby with over 15-foot-tall ceilings in addition to a lobby bar, small café, and flexible multi-use studios. Individual entrances from the building's side alley provide access to two of the hotel's nightlife spaces. The hotel's 303 guestrooms, including ten guestrooms overlooking a 13-story interior courtyard, have ceilings greater than 9-feet-tall with full-height windows. A hospitality suite with private terrace offers spectacular north-and east-facing views with windows stretching nearly the full 16-foot height of the space.