Two Bryant Park (New York City, New York)

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188-foot, 17-story modernist office building originally completed in 1926 as a 9-story building known as the Bryant Park Building. Designed by York & Sawyer and built by Chas. T. Wills, Inc. with structural elements by Gustavino Fireproof Tile Co., it had eight floors added in 1932. In a 1984 renovation, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox, the exterior of the building was completely re-clad with a dark-green glass and aluminum curtain wall system. New stone detailing and signage were added to the ground floor, which is lined with retail shops. To convert the structure to a modern office building destined for HBO Inc., the awkward original core and corridors were replaced with a central core and unnecessary air shafts were filled in (since no adjacent building was ever built), which repositioned the main entry on the Avenue of the Americas.

The north and south facades are 12 bays wide, with the west facade on 6th Avenue having five bays. On the south and west facade the ground floor (and the 2nd floor at the north bay on the avenue) are clad in light reddish-brown granite, lined with green metal-and-glass storefronts topped by black sign boards with green borders, in turn topped by narrow, vertically-oriented black metal louvers. The main entrance is in the north bay on the avenue, slightly recessed under a narrow band of silver metal panels outlined in darker brown granite. A flagpole projects from the top of the 2nd floor, just to the left of the metal band. The lower two floors of the north facade, facing onto a plaza, are clad in white marble. The top two floors are set back from the south and west sides.

HBO moved to 30 Hudson Yards when its lease expired in 2019. A subway entrance is also built into the west facade, south of the main building entrance. It was gutted again in January of 2020 for a Bank of America expansion of their headquarters which is across the street.

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