The Atlas

 office building, skyscraper, apartment building

463-foot, 46-story postmodern mixed-use building completed in 2002. Designed by Schuman Lichtenstein Claman Efron, it has retail space on the ground floor and basement levels, office space on floors 2-4, and 374 apartments units on floors 5-46. The tower is oriented east-west, and set back on all four sides (more so on the north and south) from the 4-story base.

The base is clad in limestone, metal and glass, and has five unequal bays on 6th Avenue, with seven on 38th Street, divided by lightly-rusticated piers on brown granite bases. The north facade alternates four wide bays of four windows with three narrow 2-window bays. The west facade has a wide northern bay of six windows, three middle bays of three windows each, and a southern bay of four windows. The glass is dark-tinted and has thin metal framing. The main entrance is recessed in the 2nd-4th bays from the east on 38th Street. The far east bay has an entrance to the underground parking garage, and the rest of the bays have storefronts. Ornamental light fixtures are attached to most of the piers at the top of the ground floor, and each pier culminates in a peaked finial rising above the edge of the base. The setbacks around the base to the tower create outdoor terrace space.

The tower portion has pre-cast concrete piers dividing bays of blue-grey-tinted windows with light-grey metal framing. There are concrete spandrels with black metal vents at the middle bays of each facade. The west elevation is five bays wide, with tripartite windows in the three middle bays, and the end bays consisting of narrow double-windows and a recessed, single narrow window at the ends. This facade has setbacks above the 16th and 23rd floors. The north and south elevations are organized into a wide center bay of eight windows, flanked by a bay of tripartite windows, a bay of eight windows, and two bays of four windows. The narrow by one 4-window bay at each of the west facade's setbacks. The outer 8-window bays divide into two separate 4-window bays above the first setback on the west facade, with the concrete spandrels only covering the eastern of these two bays above the setback. Above the second setback, the concrete spandrels end. The westernmost 4-window bay at each level is slightly recessed. The east facade is narrower than the west, due to a notch at the southeast corner. It has a middle bay of tripartite windows, flanked by two bays of double-windows on each side. The roof line is marked by concrete finials like those on the base.

The ground floor is occupied by Culture coffee shop and M&J Trimming.