241 5th Avenue Condominium

 condominium, Modern (architecture)

210-foot, 20-story Modern residential building completed in 2013. Designed by ODA Architects, its first 13 floors rise straight up from the lot line, with a smaller 7-story box stacked on top, set back from the building line. The facade is four bays wide, clad in tan terra-cotta and blue-green tinted glass on the lower floors. The 2nd & 3rd floors have one large pane and a narrower, aluminum-framed pane in each bay. The face of the 4th floor is recessed behind five round steel columns, creating a terrace, with a door in the center of each bay, and glass railings in front. The bays on the floors above each have three windows, one of which is outlined in aluminum and has a vent at the bottom. The outlined windows create a random pattern.

The set-back top floors have white aluminum panels in place of the terra-cotta piers and narrow spandrels, but retain the same window pattern, with one out of each group of three outlined in aluminum.

On the south facade, the overall window placement is more random, with a mix of regular windows, outlined windows, and white metal panels dotting the brick facade up to the 14th-floor setback. On the south side, the top five floors project out over the deeply recessed 15th floor, with four round metal columns supporting them, similar to the columns at the front facade's 4th floor. These top floors are clad in metal and glass, like the top of the front facade, but with random white metal panels mixed in as well.

The building has 46 condominium units. The ground floor has entrances in the two northern bays, and a storefront at the south, occupied by Bud & Honey.