425 Fifth Avenue (New York City, New York)

 skyscraper, condominiums, 2003_construction, postmodern (architecture)

618-foot, 55-story postmodern mixed-use building completed in 2003. Designed by Michael Graves & Associates, it has two floors of retail, four floors of offices, six floors with 94 extended-stay, furnished residences operated by the Envoy Club, and condominiums in the upper floors.

Clad in limestone and brick in a pale yellow and beige palette, its verticality is emphasized with center white-colored piers. The 6-story base (the office and retail component) is faced in limestone, with chamfered southwest and southeast corners at the lower two floors. The west facade on the avenue spans three bays, while the south facade has another three bays spaced by two narrower bays, and framed by the corner bays. At the retail floors, the main bays have storefronts of glass and blue-grey metal, with metal vents at the bottom of the 2nd floor's bays. The corner bays are narrower, with retail entrance at the ground floor. There is an entrance to the underground parking garage in the westernmost main bay on 38th Street. The four office floors have large multi-paned windows with projecting white stone sills and slender white columns at the ends and middle of each main and corner bay - except for the middle bay on the west facade, which has paired, smaller, square windows. The two narrow bays on the south facade has the same small, square windows.

Above the base the brick, metal and glass tower is set back, the first of four setbacks as it narrows to the top. There are three of the white "piers" at the center of the east and west facades, narrowing to two at the top floors, and four on the north and south facades, but only above the 2nd setback. At the edges of each facade, the blue-tinted window bays are grouped into 2-story units divided by metal spandrels; brick bands separate the 2-story groups. Above the 3rd setback the corners are chamfered.

The ground and second floors were occupied by Sleepy's on Fifth mattresses until 2016.