Bryant Park Tower (New York City, New York)

 hotel, skyscraper, condominiums, 2006_construction

436-foot, 43-story postmodern hotel and residential building completed in 2006. Designed by Nobutaka Ashihara Associates, the mixed-use tower has 93 condominium units on its top 11 floors. The lower 32 floors are occupied by a Marriott Residence Inn, an "extended-stay hotel" that was the chain’s first in the city. The hotel entrance is at 1033 Avenue of the Americas, with a curved brass marquee. The condominium entrance is at 100 West 39th Street; the residential portion of the building has a doorman, a concierge, and a health club.

The orange-beige brick building is built around the Millinery Center Synagogue and one other small building on the avenue where the new structure has three 4-story dark-reddish-grey polished granite bases. The tower rises from between the northern two base sections, with the brick facade sloping back between the bases to the vertical wall that begins at the top of the base sections. At the north side, the tower is setback from the base.

A string course at the 33rd floor marks the split in the building's functions and the upper portion, which is slightly cantilevered on its western façade, has a different fenestration pattern from the bottom. The tower has a set-back roof with a patterned masonry decoration mostly hiding the rooftop watertank. Besides the hotel and residential lobbies, the ground floor contains a Dunkin', Portabella Menswear, Moe's Southwestern Grill, Alma Bank, and an entrance to the underground, 100-car parking garage.