Delmonico Plaza Building (New York City, New York)

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301-foot, 24-story postmodern office building completed in 1986. Designed by Davis, Brody & Associates, it is clad in light-brown granite with grey granite trim, and long bands of green-tinted windows. The ground floor is recessed behind five banded granite columns. At the west end the recessed area is three floors high, with a 3-story column. The non-recessed part of the 2nd & 3rd floors angle back toward the 3-story rear glass wall of the west end bay, which has the building's main entrance at the ground floor, with a revolving door and traditional glass doors. The angled, receding section of the 2nd-3rd floors is banded with grey stone, with more closely-spaced banding on the 3-story west end wall that abuts the neighboring building. The rest of the ground floor is clad in black granite above stainless-steel and glass. Below the angled wall is the entrance (with glass double-doors) to the Florence Gould Hall, a 400-seat theater built for the French Institute Alliance Francais, whose main building is located behind this one, on 60th Street. To the east there are storefronts, and a loading dock with a roll-down metal gate at the east end.

The 2nd floor has four bands of triple-windows to the right of the angled wall, and the 3rd floor has triple-windows at only the western two bays. The 4th-6th floors have longer bands of 17 panes in the middle, and end bays of triple-window bands. The end bays set back above the 6th floor, and the 7th floor has four triple-window bays across its front, with another setback. The upper floors have 17-pane window bands in the middle, and recessed end bays of triple-windows, with a setback above the 16th floor at the east end bay, and above the 21st floor at the west end bay. The outer parts of the middle section set back above the 23rd floor, with two triple-window bays at the middle of the 24th floor, and two more on each side.

The east elevation has window bands spanning its full width in the center, and shorter bays at the recessed south and north ends. The north facade continues the window bands on its east half, while the west half projects farther out and has one bay of triple-windows and one of double-windows. There are no setbacks on the north facade.