FRANK 57 WEST

 office building, apartment building

114-foot, 10-story modernist mixed-use building completed in 2017. Designed by Studio V Architecture, it is clad in grey zinc and glass. The building is named after Frank Durst, the grandson of Douglas Durst, the head of The Durst Organization. It contains 65 apartment units on the top six floors, with offices, retail, and community facility uses below. Much of the office space is occupied by the Hospital for Special Surgery.

The 4-story base is split into two parts; the upper section has a glass curtain wall and is recessed between the lower floors and the residential on three sides from the floors above. The lower two floors feature zinc cladding above a grey granite water table; these two floors extend past the west end of the main bulk of the building to front to plaza in the middle of the block. The northwest corner of this 2-story extension is chamfered at an angle, with the roof overhanging. A metal railing surrounds the roof deck atop the extension. Farther to the east, the zinc-clad lower two floors are interrupted with a gap extending a short way back to the main residential entrance, which has glass double-doors in the glass curtain wall that extends down to the sidewalk here. To the left is the commercial entrance, also with glass double-doors; the zinc cladding is carried across to a free-standing pier (joined only across the top of the 2nd floor) that is placed in front of and between the two entrances. This pier and lintel across the top create a large 2-story opening framing the commercial entrance. Continuing to the east is a single-window at the ground floor, then a double-window with a tall, black metal vent above it, a set of black metal service doors (with another vent above) and then a tall, single-story storefront to the east end (due to the slope of the site, the east end has only one floor below the two recessed glass floors of the base. The storefront windows wrap around the corner and continue along the east facade on the avenue, slightly recessed. There is a pair of stainless-steel service doors at the south end, where the zinc cladding extends up to the top floors of the base as well.

The boxy top six floors perch atop the recessed band of glass at the upper part of the base, cantilevering over them. Also clad in grey zinc, they have punched window openings, divided into a main pane with a lower transom pane and a narrow side pane by grey metal framing. The north facade has 15 total bays, many of which in the middle are roughly grouped into pairs. The east end bay has double-windows and wraps around the northeast corner to a bay of double-windows at the north end of the east facade. Directly south of this are two narrower bays of windows, one with the same configuration as those on the north facade, and the other with just a single pane. At the south end of the east facade is another bay of windows and an end bay with double-windows wrapping around the southeast corner to single-windows at the east end of the south facade. The west end of the north facade also has windows wrapping around the corner, and at the top floor, the two western bays are joined together into a wide opening that wraps around the corner and continues for three bays on the west facade. The rest of the west facade has two single-windows (below the end of the 10th-floor band), and another bay at the south end. The south facade has three bays of single-windows in the center, flanked by another bay on either side, and edged by the end bays.

The ground floor is occupied by a dance school, Anthology Wine & Spirits, and Soul Dental West on the avenue, and HSS Sports Medicine on the west side.