The 13-story Moxy East Village, a new 286-key hotel in Manhattan’s iconic East Village, was inspired by the surrounding neighborhood’s gritty urban aesthetic, brick walk-ups, and distinctive iron fire escapes. In this spirit, the hotel’s façade features board-formed concrete piers and walls and iron-point roman brick, echoing the iconic Webster Hall music venue across 11th Street, with CorTen weathered steel elements on the street level and the top floor.

Carved deep underground, the dramatic triple-height Cathédrale restaurant features 26-foot, grand domed style ceilings to highlight a custom installation by Italian artist Edoardo Tresoldi. Two levels down, the “Little Sister” speakeasy features wood-clad, barrel-vaulted ceilings specifically to conceal sophisticated soundproofing panels throughout the club. The top floor of the building features a rooftop bar with a retractable glass roof and weathered steel details. Guestroom floors have industrial grid windows, verticality emphasized by grouping them in two-story articulations.

Moxy East Village exterior walls employ extra-robust thermal insulation to meet the city’s Zone Green enhanced standards for energy efficiency.