Le Triomphe (New York City, New York)

 high-rise, apartment building, 1983_construction, commercial building

332-foot, 29-story modernist/brutalist-style residential/commercial building completed in 1983. Designed by Liebman & L Associates, it is clad in reddish-brown brick. The L-shaped tower rises from a 2-story commercial base. The residential entrance is on 58th Street, set far back from the sidewalk with a revolving door flanked by traditional glass doors. A walkway out to the sidewalk is covered by a long, brown metal canopy supported near the end by a pair of round stone columns where there is a small set of steps down to the sidewalk. Above and to the right of the entrance, a long, angled brick wall extends out to the corner. Brick planter boxes framed the canopied walkway, and at the west end there is a loading dock with a roll-down metal gate, with planters above it at the 2nd floor level.

Along the avenue and 59th Street, the ground floor is lined with storefronts, and the 2nd floor is occupied by offices for Weill Cornell Medicine's Sean Parker Institute for the Voice and its Comprehensive Spine Care Center, which have their own entrance near the west end of the north facade. This entrance has glass double-doors between angled brick side walls and is covered by a white metal canopy; the western side wall extends out farther to a final 2-bay storefront at the west end. The north facade of the base has seven total bays, and the east facade along the avenue has seven as well. The ground-floor storefront at the northeast corner is chamfered at a 45-degree angle behind the corner pier, with the 2nd floor overhanging it. Each of the bays at the 2nd floor has a band of six windows in dark-grey metal framing (except for the two western end bays on 59th Street, which are only four windows wide). A metal band across each bay also divided short, lower transoms from the main panes.

The east face of the tower has a projecting south bay with an angled north end. It has two sets of double-windows, the southern one slightly wider than the northern, separated by a narrow brick section, and both fronted by a white concrete balconies with metal railings. The angled wall reverts ends at the 19th floor, with the corner above cantilevering over for the top floors. North of the projecting south bay, there is a narrow bay of single-windows and smoked-glass spandrels, followed by a wide bay with three sets of double-windows, fronted by wide balconies. A matching bay is at the north end, and between them are three bays with tripartite windows and dark glass spandrels between floors. At the top two floors, the bays with the wide balconies are framed by projecting side walls, giving the building a bulging appearance at the top.

On the north facade, the east bay follows the design of the east facade's south bay, with an angled inner side that ends at the 19th floor, and balconies fronting paired double-windows. To the west is a single-window bay and two tripartite window bays, with dark glass spandrels between the brick piers. Near the center is a wide bay of balconies, followed by another tripartite window bay. The two bays at the west end project out farther, with tripartite windows at the end bay, and balconies (narrower than the middle bay) fronting the other. Here again, the two western balcony bays have projecting end walls at the top two floors.

The south facade on 57th Street has two parts due to the L-shaped nature of the tower. The eastern part extends farther to the south, and has four bays. The two middle bays have tripartite windows and spandrels of darker glass, and the end bays have three sets of double-windows fronted by projecting balconies, again framed by projecting side walls at the top two floors. The western part of the south facade is set far back and has a bay of double-windows in the center, with end bays of tripartite windows.

The two west-facing elevations are plain brick with no openings, except for a bay of single-windows near the north end of the south section. All around the tower, at the top two floors, the balcony bays with the projecting side walls are capped by sloped glass roofs. The building contains 160 apartment units. The ground floor along the avenue and 59th Street is occupied by Le Triomphe Cleaners, Accent On Flowers, Crunch Fitness, One Salon, VandenLoom rugs, and Sean Parker Institute for the Voice.