Ink48, A Kimpton Hotel

 hotel  Add category

206-foot, 17-story hotel originally completed in 1928 as a 14-story building. Designed by Ernest Flagg as the Model Fireproof Company Loft Building Addition, it housed the J.H. Tooker Printing Company in the 1930s, who specialized in printing theatrical posters. The building was renovated into a hotel in 2008, with the addition of three new floors on top. The renovations were designed by Carlos Zapata Studio, and M.J. Macaluso & Associates.

The facade is clad in light-tan brick and glass, with both main facades (east and north) divided into five bays. The 2-story base is capped by a stone band. The hotel's double-height main entrance is in the 2nd bay from the south on the east facade, edged in black granite, with glass double-doors set in a glass surround; a black metal canopy covers the entry at the top, with a sign mounted above it. The other bays have glass restaurant storefronts at the ground floor, and large window expanses on the 2nd floor. The southernmost bay has an entrance to the rooftop bar, The Press Lounge. The easternmost bay on the north facade has a metal canopy covering the ground floor, and has a glass door into the restaurant that borders the lobby, named Print. The westernmost bay has a loading dock with a roll-down metal gate and a steel service door at the ground floor, and the 2nd-floor window is shorter here to accommodate them.

The upper floors have bays of five or four windows in thin aluminum framing, with shorter upper panes. The 2nd bay from the south, above the main entrance, is designed a little differently, with a wider south window whose lower part is split two unequal-width panes. The 13th floor is topped by a slightly-projecting tan stone cornice, and the 14th floor by a larger, newer cornice of light-bege cast-stone. The 3-story addition is set back from the north, and partially from the east, where the 15th floor has a sloped glass roof extending out to the building line at the southern part of the facade. The rest of the addition is clad in glass, and formed by a group of joined cubes. The rooftop bar occupies the area on the north end of the 14th-floor roof. Mechanical equipment sits atop the 17th floor at the southwest corner, with a pergola-like structure of white metal beams spanning across the rooftop addition, and a tall wall of white concrete enclosed the entire south end of the addition. Below it, the original south facade is clad in brick with no openings. The west facade is clad in white concrete, with four bays of windows like those on the two main facades, except that they have short bottom and top panes bordering the larger middle panes.

The hotel contains 222 guest rooms.

www.ink48.com/