Millennium Times Square New York Hotel (New York City, New York)

 hotel, skyscraper, 1990_construction, 1990s construction

Originally Millennium Broadway Times Square New York, most recently Millennium Doubletree Times Square New York by Hilton

481-foot, 47-story modernist hotel completed in 1990. Designed by Perkins & Will and William Derman, it is clad in a curtain wall of grey-green glass above a light-grey pre-cast stone base. The main facade is on 44th Street, with the ground floor rusticated and sitting on a grey granite water table. The entrance is in the 2nd bay from the east, with stainless-steel and glass doors under a lighted dark-green metal suspended canopy. Two projecting flagpoles flank the canopy. The other three main bays have plate-glass storefronts, and there is a narrow service entrance at the west end. Each bay is separated by piers with vertical grooves and wall-mounted light fixtures. Two more flagpoles project from the piers at the west. The entrance is framed by a stone surround that extends up for three floors, filled by an abstract, geometric New York city scene executed in black and grey. At the 2nd floor there are five large, square windows to the left of the entrance, and another two at the right. A band of slightly darker-grey stone runs through the center of the squares across the full floor; similar bands extend across the 3rd & 4th floors, accented by small, rough-faced squares at the locations of the windows below.

There is a setback at the western three windows above the 4th floor; the rest of the base extends up to the 6th floor, with two floors of six additional square windows. The east part of the base also sets back to the main tower above the 6th floor. The glass curtain wall of the tower sets back above the 10th floor, with a small setback above the 44th floor. The east and west facades are narrower; the east side rises straight up, while the west elevation's southern half (which projecting out further than the north) sets back above the 38th floor.

On 45th Street, the lower north wing has a 2-story stone base. The ground floor has a large loading dock at the right, and a stainless-steel and glass entrance on the left, covered by a lighted dark-green metal canopy, like that on the south facade. The 2nd floor has three square openings; only the center one has a window, the other two are filled by concrete panels. The westernmost one (and part of the middle one) is covered by a 2-faced signboard, projecting out at the middle. The upper floors are faced in a green glass curtain wall, with a setback above the 6th floor, and another setback above the 10th floor, where it extends back to the main tower. The north face of the tower is recessed at the east end.

The hotel contains 752 guest rooms. Besides the lobby, the ground floor is occupied by Bugis Street restaurant.

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