The New West Coast (New York City, New York)

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8-story postmodern residential building completed in 1987 combined with a former 6-story paint factory completed in 1883, creating a complex of 159 apartments. The older building designed by Kimball and Wisedell for the Devoe Paint Company. In 1920 it was converted to a storage warehouse. It is clad in red brick, with large pilasters (stone on the ground floor, brick on the upper floors) dividing the facade into three equal bays of three windows each. A large cornice separates the ground floor from those above.

The new construction was designed by Avinash K. Malhotra to continue the streetwall created by the original building. The richly detailed new facades include iron spot seeded bricks with custom coursework and cast stone accents. Parts of the facade are clad in orange brick with dark red-brown brick band courses forming window headers, while other portions reverse the pattern. It also has a triangular pedimented central portion of its roofline on the West Street facade, and a very attractive pergola designed by Howard Zimmerman Architects on its roofdeck. The two buildings share a courtyard that has a landscaped hill.