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

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310-foot, 26-story modernist hotel completed in 1991. Designed by Costas Kondylis & Partners and Mayers & Schiff Associates, this building (along with One Times Square) is one of the most famous Times Square buildings, known for being covered with a south-facing wall of billboards including three large video boards sponsored by Coca-Cola, Samsung, and Xinhua News Agency. The site was previously occupied by a parallelogram-shaped lowrise building that was topped by many famous signs, including the predecessors of the famous Coca Cola sign.

The building narrows toward the south end, where there is a ground-floor, glass-clad Olive Garden restaurant with two levels of video boards above it, projecting out from the rest of the building like the prow of a ship. Behind it, the advertising wall with its three tiers of vertical digital signs (topped by another billboard on the roof) is supported by a projecting section of dark-grey brick with cutaway areas revealing the steel structural supports for the signs. There is a large number 2 at the base of this section, denoting the building's alternate address of 2 Times Square.

The rest of the ground floor is lined with metal-and-glass storefronts, the main hotel entrance at the center of the east facade on 7th Avenue, and a large garage entrance with a roll-down metal gate on the north facade. The hotel entrance is covered by a stainless-steel canopy with a large metal "R" topping both ends. The 3-story base is clad in a black reflective glass curtain wall above the ground floor; above the main entrance a bronze frame borders an area of glass with lighter-colored, thin horizontal stripes and a large metal "R" and word "RENAISSANCE" mounted in the middle.

While the base is angled on the sides to follow the wedge shape of the lot, the tower above is more rectangular in plan, shifted at a slight angle, and clad in the same black glass curtain wall behind the sign-tower at the south end. At the north facade and north half of the west facade on Broadway, above the base, there is a 6-story wedge-shaped concrete section that angles away from the curtain wall, with a 2-sided angled video board at the corner that is set at a sharper angle toward the northwest. Another angled billboard is set at the top floor of the base, at the south half of the west facade on Broadway.

The hotel has 305 guest rooms. Besides the lobby and Olive Garden restaurant at the south end, the ground floor is occupied by Travelex currency exchange, Americana Tickets NY, Arabian Oud perfumery, Happy Socks sock store, Max Brenner gifts, ChangeMoney money exchange, Mia's Brooklyn Bakery, and Lids hats.