Savoy Club

Year: 2025 Design & Honor Awards | Category: Interior Architecture

Savoy Club is a modern amenity suite that seamlessly bridges past and present, housed in an environment that captures the mid-century optimism of storied skyscrapers. Located in the 1968 General Motors building, the architects created a sophisticated hub that supports workers with three components: Food & Beverage (complete with prep kitchen), Conference Center & Lounge, and Fitness & Wellness Center. The timeless mid-century modern design of architect Edward Durrel Stone, in particular the building’s classic lobby, is celebrated and reflected in the club’s upscale, tailored design.

Design Challenge

The client’s brief was based on a year’s long tenant listening tour which resulted in three major programmatic needs for the building club—an affordable grab and go café, a conference center with flex seating for up to 265, and a fitness center with an emphasis on wellness. These components were meant to ease the neighborhood’s lack of approachable amenities while making the building more self-sufficient.

Architects designed the Savoy Club as an open, amenity-rich suite to meet today’s live-work lifestyle. The color palette of greens, taupes, blues and warm woods imbues the space’s mid-century lineage. Comfortable and attractive modular seating and furnishings offer an array of choices and are outfitted with charging ports. The setting references the lobby’s original tone-on-tone design and patterning with chamfered corners and fluted travertine. Existing brass doors on elevators were refinished to their original luster and balanced with dark bronze frames. Curated selections of artwork, objects, and books evoke glamour, imparting a luxe experience to employees both during work and after hours. To create an airy, inviting space, expansive ceiling heights were maintained while HVAC equipment was cleverly concealed in columns. A significant constraint the team had to contend with before the space’s transformation was the lack of daylight due to ground windows below being blocked by retailer signage. The design strategy was to not only maximize available light, but also to improve the illumination with ambient lighting that tempers in warmth over the course of the day, mimicking sunlight and supporting circadian rhythm

Firm
Fogarty Finger

Project Location
New York, New York

Completion Date
2/1/2023

Architect of Record
TPG Architecture

Structural Engineer
Gilsanz Murray Steficek (GMS)

MEP
JB&B

General Contractor
Structure Tone

Lighting
Lightbox Studios

Photographer
@davidmitchellphoto