Pace Gallery

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135-foot, 8-story futurist gallery building completed in 2019. Designed by Bonetti/Kozerski Studio, it is clad in pre-cast concrete panels, painted dark-grey at the 2nd-5th floors. These floors make up a grid of very tall windows spaced across 12 bays on each floor. The ground floor has lighter-colored concrete at both ends, with freight entrances hidden in both. The middle section has plate-glass window bands, and a recessed entrance near the west end with glass double-doors.

A large outdoor terrace takes up most of the sixth floor, the main setback of the building before it rises another two floors to the roof, with this top section supported only at the ends by two egress cores on the eastern and western property lines to create a space underneath where people can walk under and through. The north and south facades of the top section have glass curtain walls, and the underside forming the ceiling of the 6th-floor terrace is clad in silver metal panels (the floor of the terrace is paved in stone blocks). The roof slopes back from the front.

The largest of the building's galleries measures 3,600 square feet, and sits on the ground floor with 18-foot-high ceilings, polished concrete floors, and an oversized glass-pivot door that directly opens onto West 25th Street. The 2nd floor has a 2,500 square-foot gallery with 15-foot-high ceilings designed with white oak flooring and an all-glass, south-facing wall. This leads directly onto a 1,500-square-foot outdoor terrace gallery. The 3rd floor houses the most intimate set of galleries totaling 1,900 square feet. Each has 13-foot-high ceilings, white oak flooring, and south-facing, floor-to-ceiling windows. The 6th floor offers panoramic views of the Manhattan skyline when standing among the 4,800-square-foot outdoor exhibition space. It is designed to accommodate large-scale sculptural installations. The 7th floor is dedicated to presenting new media works, live performances, and public programming. A 2,200-square-foot gallery sits on this level, with a north-facing wall of 17-foot-high glass windows, polished concrete floors, a flexible layout, and a special acoustical treatment that is optimized to create dynamic audience experiences for rotating and multidisciplinary exhibitions and programs.