Marymount University Dormitory

 skyscraper, dormitory, apartment building, 2001_construction

473-foot, 48-story postmodern residential dormitory building completed in 2001. Designed by Costas Kondylis & Partners for Marymount University, it combines dormitory rooms for students with an upper section of 40 upscale rental apartments. The apartments, located on the top 15 floors, are called the Capri, and have their own entrance, elevators, and address. The dormitory is home to about 500 residents each year in 111 two-bedroom apartments. Each bedroom holds from 2-4 residents each, and is fully furnished.

The slender building, which sets back at the 9th, 21st, 32nd and 46th floors, is clad in pale orange brick and silver-blue glass with white stone trim. As the tower rises, there is more glass and less brick and stone on the front facade. The building is recessed back from the sidewalk. The ground floor has thick white stone banding, with The Capri entrance to the right, with glass double-doors under a rounded, black canvas canopy. The two middle bays are recessed at the first two floors (and also at the west end bay at the ground floor only), and contain the dormitory entrance at the left, with glass double-doors. The west end bay has a metal service door.

The 2nd & 3rd floors have thinner banding, except at the two recessed middle bays at the 2nd floor, which continue the thicker banding from the ground floor. These two floors have four bays of square openings with tripartite windows consisting of very narrow end panes, and also very thin horizontal mullions across the top and bottom. Decorative metal vents covers are located below each window bay.

A stone band course sets off the upper floors, with wider tripartite windows in each bay. There are metal vents below each bay, and small, projecting, stone diamond shapes at the piers between each floor. The end bays set back above the 9th floor, and the full facade set back above the 21st floor. The end bays set back again above the 32nd floor. Above the 32nd-floor setback the facade transitions to more glass, with only a brick center pier. The two middle bays have a final setback above the 46th floor.

The east and west side elevations are brick with exposed concrete floor plates. There are no openings until the upper 15 floors, where there are two bays of single-windows near the north end. Additionally, the corner windows from the front and back facades wrap around to single panes at the north and south ends of the west and east elevations. The north-facing facade has four bays of tripartite windows (the middle two grouped closer together) up to the top 15 floors, where the end piers are replaced by triple-windows in the end bays. A mechanical penthouse and water tank enclosure, both in orange brick, rise from the rooftop.

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