New York Genome Center

 university, office building, high-rise, 1992_construction, postmodern (architecture)

319-foot, 25-story postmodern office building completed in 1992. Designed by Fox & Fowle, it is clad in mixed bands of dark red and tan brick, with green-tinted glass. Two grids of brick are woven across the building's surface. The main grid, of warm brown brick, corresponds to the building's concrete frame structure; a secondary grid of light gray marks individual floors and wraps across a gently curved section of the main facade. Thin window mullions in black repeat the tartan in a finer pattern. The central tower portion is flanked by two 6-story wings, which project out toward the side streets, preserving the scale of residential buildings nearby. One wing is pulled forward and slightly angled to frame an entrance plaza.

The building is currently occupied by the New York Genome Center which is a research consortium of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York University, Columbia University, Mount Sinai Hospital, and Stony Brook University among others. Interior renovations were commissioned by Elkus Manfredi Architects.

www.nygenome.org/