The Langham New York Fifth Avenue (New York City, New York)

 hotel, skyscraper, condominiums, 2010_construction

632-foot, 57-story modernist mixed-used building completed in 2010. Designed by Gwathmey, Siegel & Associates, it opened as The Setai - it was changed to the Langham Place in 2013. The tower contains a 200-room hotel on floors 4-16, and 190 residential condominiums on floors 17-56, with the lower floors containing a parking garage, retail space, and hotel amenities.

Designed as a modern take on Art-Deco, the building is clad in limestone and has an 11-story base. Large, squared piers with grey granite bases divide the Fifth Avenue facade into four main bays; the south facade has three wide bays and a narrower bay, and there is a corner bay at the southeast corner, cut at a 45-degree angle on the two bottom floors, and rounded above. There is a small restaurant entrance projection at the corner bay's ground floor. The building's main hotel entrance is in the north bay on the avenue, deeply recessed and covered by a suspended stainless steel canopy that extends out over the sidewalk, angling up slightly and narrowing as it extends. The residential entrance is in the narrow bay on the south facade, with a smaller stainless steel canopy. The western bay has a garage door. In the other bays, metal louvers separate the plate-glass of the 1st & 2nd floors.

The 3rd floor, where the rounded corner begins, also has large, recessed windows in the wide bays, topped by slightly-projecting stainless steel canopies with rounded ends. At the corner bay there are three, and square recessed windows, and above the garage door in the west bay there are two more square openings. Above the 3rd floor each of the wide bays is split into two roughly square bays, resulting in eight windows across each floor of the base on the east facade, seven on the south side, and three wrapping around the rounded corner. The windows on the 4th floor are deeply recessed, with metal spandrels above, while those on the upper floors of the base have short angled panes facing downward and taller angled panes facing up. The lower, shorter panes are framed in metal, and the taller top panes, receding back into the facade, between the limestone piers, have small grey metal spandrels connecting to the next set of angling windows. A vertical metal fin divides each bay into two halves. The base ends at the 11th floor, with the rectangular tower set back above it.

The facades of the tower are similar to the upper part of the base, with the same angled window and spandrel pattern. The limestone piers have decorative banding at each floor level, except for the corner piers, which end at the 28th floor, which is a mechanical floor with metal louvers in place of windows. The south and north facades are five bays wide, with the same design. The top section of the tower, with the corner piers gone, has two sets of vertical metal fins at the outer bays, dividing these bays into three window sections, joining at the corners. At the crown, the piers extend up to the roof line, while the bays in between have 3-story outward-angled panels that extend past the piers and light up at night. The panels screen the rooftop mechanical equipment. Besides the lobbies, the ground floor is occupied by Le Pain Quotidien restaurant.