Kimpton Hotel Eventi - The Beatrice (New York City, New York)

 hotel, skyscraper, condominiums, movie / film / TV location, 2010_construction

614-foot, 53-story postmodern hotel & residential building completed in 2010. Designed by Perkins Eastman, the building houses the 4.5-star Kimpton hotel property called Eventi, as well as luxury condominiums (known as The Beatrice) on floors 26-53. The 4-story base is clad in white precast concrete and blue glass on the main east-facing elevation, with vertically-oriented, staggered windows of varying width. The ground floor is clad in metal-and-glass, and topped by a band of louvered vents. The entrance to The Beatrice is at the far west end on 29th Street, covered by a metal canopy, at a small 1-story extension topped by a glassed-in terrace. The north and south elevations of the base are mostly white concrete, with large vertically-oriented, 2-story signs for Hotel Eventi at the front. The back half of the base drops down to two floors on the north and three on the south, with glass curtain walls. There are two parking garage entrances with roll-down metal gates at the west end on 30th Street.

Behind the building is a landscaped plaza which partially covers the underground parking garage. On the opposite (west) side of the plaza is a 1-story entrance to the garage on 29th Street. It is clad in grey metal panels on the south end, and translucent glass panels on the east side. The grass-covered roof is sloped, with an angled roof line. Rising from the highest (west) end is a tall metal screen with a video screen embedded in the middle.

The main tower is set back from the base on the south, east and north sides, with the hotel portion at the top faced in the same materials, but with a larger fenestration pattern. The residences on the upper floors are set off by a full-story black band at a mechanical floor, and have a completely different facade than the lower portion of the tower. It is clad in a dark grey glass curtain wall with silver spandrels. The entire tower is split in half by a vertical stripe running up the narrow sides, culminating in a metal fin rising above the roof.

The ground floor is occupied by lobbies for both the hotel and residences, Skirt Steak restaurant, and L'Amico restaurant. The hotel’s restaurants face the mid-block plaza, which is dominated by a jumbotron display. Windows in the base can be lit with LEDs for a colorful display at night. There is also a 500-car underground parking garage.

The interior was used as a filming location for the independent Jeff Seal documentary "New York's Worst Landlords" (2018) as Seal sneaks into the LandlordsNYLIVE! Property Management Symposium.