Hill West Architects

Hill West Architects is a New York practice specializing in high-rise residential and mixed-use towers, with a portfolio concentrated in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. Much of the firm’s value sits in zoning and code work, where floor area, setback and light-and-air rules determine what a Manhattan or Long Island City site can actually carry before a single line of design gets drawn. Hill West designed Lumen at 23-15 44th Road in Long Island City, a 66-storey, 731-foot tower holding 938 rental apartments, a lower-level office component and 17,400 square feet of ground-floor retail across roughly 838,000 square feet. It ranks among the tallest buildings in Queens.