The first design for the building was too industrial-looking. The second was too glassy. But the third was just right.

At least that’s how the design progressed for the seven-story condominium rising at the intersection of Seventh Avenue South and West 10th Street.

The site for the building, now known as 175 West 10th Street, is a small triangle that was created when Seventh Avenue was extended on a diagonal south from Greenwich Avenue in 1919, slicing through city blocks and leaving irregularly shaped lots on either side. Originally known as 130 Seventh Avenue South, the site is just over 2,900 square feet, with its longest side on the commercial thoroughfare.

Although triangular sites elsewhere in the city have given rise to extraordinary architecture — the Flatiron Building, for instance — the odd lots along Seventh Avenue were for many decades largely ignored by developers, who favored sites with more buildable sizes and conventional configurations. Gas stations and other single-story structures were erected on some of the sites. In 1937, the Texas Company built a one-story building on this lot, and over the years different businesses have occupied it, most recently a restaurant and nightclub named Veranda.