Four Points by Sheraton Midtown - Times Square

 hotel, high-rise, 2009_construction

297-foot, 33-story modernist hotel completed in 2009. Designed by Gene Kaufman, it was built together with the adjoining Fairfield Inn, using the same tower crane. Both have the same basic shape but with differing colors and facade patterns.The ground floor is clad in black metal and glass. The main entrance is near the center, with a glass-fronted restaurant to the right, both covered by a grey metal canopy. At the east end is a bright yellow metal projection support by two piers at the front, covering secondary entrances and a seating area.

The tower portion is set back above the base, clad mostly in black-painted brick, four bays wide. Each bay has a double-window with a small black metal air-conditioning vent below. The bottom and top areas of the tower, however, have glass curtain walls, with a black metal framing grid creating various window pane sizes, metal vents also pepper the curtain walls. The lower curtain wall spans the full width of the facade from the 2nd-4th floor, and then narrows to just the two middle bays at the 5th & 6th floors. The curtain wall at the top is the inverse, two bays wide at its lower two floors, and then full-width at the next five floors. The top floor below the lower roof line has a simpler curtain wall of larger glass panes, topped by a roof lounge with sloping atrium window/skylights like those on the neighboring hotel. At the east end is a protruding, bright yellow metal cube, jutting out from the facade and encompassing the top floor below the lower roof line and the lounge level above it. The main roof line is set back, one floor higher, and topped by mechanical equipment screened by three large white cubes with diagonal cross-bracing, matching the rooftop of the neighboring hotel to the west. The upper curtain wall is also present on the rear, south-facing facade.

The east elevation is faced in brick, painted black in the middle and dark-grey at the ends, up to the 27th floor, where the glass curtain wall from the front facade wraps around to the side, at the front and back (the middle section is still black brick up to the roof line). The lower and upper horizontal edges of the yellow cube extend back along the side facade to the brick middle area. The end of the white cube screening the mechanical equipment also has an X-brace.

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