MiMA (New York City, New York)

670-foot, 63-story neo-modern mixed-use building completed in 2011. Designed by Arquitectonica and Ismael Leyva Architects, its name is ostensibly short for Middle of Manhattan. It has 43 floors of luxury apartments on floors 7 to 50, twelve floors of condominiums on floors 51 to 63, and a Yotel hotel in the L-shaped lower west wing, a 660-unit "pod" hotel. The condominium portion is named Manhattan View at MiMA. While the MiMA rentals utilize an entrance at 450 West 42nd Street, Manhattan View at MiMA residents enter just to the west at 460 West 42nd Street.

In 2012, the Signature Theatre Company opened The Pershing Square Signature Center, designed by Frank Gehry, inside the MiMA Building. The center consists of three theater spaces, two studios, a shared lobby with a café and bar, bookshop, and concierge desk, and administrative offices.

The 2-5-story base fills the entire block, mostly clad in warm beige pre-cast concrete panels on the upper floors, with bands of dark-tinted windows at different levels. The ground floor is recessed at the east end, with infill of glass and grey granite, and round silver metal columns supporting the floors above. The Signature Theater is in the 4-story section of base near the west end, with a metal and translucent glass marquee over the entrance. At the southwest corner, the base rises to five floors at the hotel portion. The Yotel entrance is in the middle of the west facade on 10th Avenue, recessed and framed by white pre-cast stone panels; the entrance itself is recessed (with rounded upper corners) and two round columns. The southwest corner storefront on the ground floor is clad in dark-grey metal panels on the west facade, and grey granite on the south facade, with grey metal louvers on top. The rest of the south facade's ground floor at the hotel component consists of grey metal louvers. Most of the 2nd floor on the west facade, and partly wrapping onto the south facade is faced in white pre-cast panels in a honeycomb pattern, with a "YOTEL" sign mounted over the entrance. The beige stone and glass cladding continues on the rest of the base. To the east of the hotel portion, there are three bays (two wide and one narrower) with roll-down metal gates to the underground parking garage, surrounded by dark-grey metal slatted panels. The southeast corner of the base is clad differently, in dark-grey stone on the ground floor, with bands of stainless steel across the top, and dark-grey brick above. It is windowless, housing mechanical equipment, and has a wide band of metal vents along its west end (with more louvers and metal service doors at the ground floor) and a stacked cube of metal louvers at the top of the east corner.

Both the taller, main tower and the L-shaped hotel tower are large slabs set back from the base and clad in the same curtain wall of navy-tinted glass. There are terrace spaces on the roof of the base. On the north facade of the main tower, there is projecting bay about one-third the width of the tower, near the east end, that runs most of the way up the side. Besides the lobbies, theater and amenity spaces, there are some storefronts on the ground floor, occupied by KOPE boutique, Treehaus Wine & Liquor store, a Wells Fargo bank branch, Drybar hair salon, Nicol Squash, and The UPS Store.

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