The Tate

 apartment building, 2003_construction

145-foot, 14-story postmodern residential building completed in 2003. Designed by Ismael Leyva and the Rockwell Group, it has towers fronting on both West 23rd (14 floors) & 24th Streets (11 floors), with a courtyard in between. Altogether, there are 313 apartment units.

On 23rd Street, the ground floor is lined with grey metal and plate-glass, with the facade above clad in light tan-orange brick with large, horizontal windows. An air-conditioning vent is located below each window. The entrance has a large red-metal marquee that flares upward at its sides over a revolving door entrance. A 4-story section above the entrance has metal and blue-tinted opaque glass cladding, as well as two recessed sections at the far west and near the eastern side of the facade that rise to the full height of the tower. The brick-clad portions of the facade end above the 10th floor, where there is a setback and the top four floors continue in the blue-tinted glass and metal configuration, highlighted by narrow, vertical red metal bars. At the eastern end of the roof, the metal parapet slants upward at an angle.

On 24th Street, the facade materials are the same, with differences in the massing. The tan-orange brick rises up to the 8th floor at the ends and in the center. Two symmetrical areas of metal and blue-tinted glass reach the 5th floor. Above the setbacks, the rest of the tower continues up vertically in the metal and blue glass cladding. The ground floor is occupied by a number of galleries, including the Unix Gallery, Berry Campbell Gallery, Perry Rubinstein Gallery, Jack Shainman Gallery, Robert Miller Gallery, Susan Inglett Gallery, Mike Weiss Gallery, Anna Zorina Gallery, Danziger Gallery, and J. Cacciola Gallery.