One Lincoln Square

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314-foot, 30-story postmodern residential building completed in 1995. Designed by Gary Edward Handel + Associates and Schuman, Lichtenstein, Claman & Efron, it has a low-rise base at the north end of the block, with an asymmetrical slab tower at the south end. The base is clad in tan brick, silver metal, and glass. Parts of the ground floor are clad in light-grey granite and polished dark-grey granite. The main entrance is at the north end of the east elevation on Columbus Avenue. It has a revolving door and traditional glass door immediately south of an indented panel of steel-framed, pale-green tinted opaque glass. A stainless-steel canopy cover the doors, and there is a window to the south, with a planter box at its base. A metal band runs across this section of granite cladding. At the south end there is a 3-story metal-and-glass curtain wall with its slightly-recessed north edge separated from the rest by a vertical metal band, and having glass-and-metal double-doors at the ground floor. To the right, above the granite cladding on the ground floor, the 2nd-3rd floors have three bays of double-height openings with asymmetrical double-windows set in the tan brick. Above the north bay, the upper floors have a curtain wall of silver metal and blue glass, with five panes on each floor, ending at the 26th floor. The rest of the east facade to the south is brick, with four bays of windows. The northern four have asymmetrical double-windows, and the south end bay has triple-windows that wrap around the corner. At the top two floors the brick is replaced by recessed glass exposures, with rounded stainless-steel columns between the bays.

On the south facade on 66th Street the 3-story commercial curtain wall continues from the east end, and also has a slightly-recessed section at the west that is separated by a vertical metal band. The west side of the ground floor has a storefront in the granite cladding, with a steel canopy that wraps around the southwest corner. Above there is a 2-story curtain wall section that wraps around the corner to the angled west facade that follows the path of Broadway. Above a brick spandrel, the upper floors have a taller section of curtain wall, four panes wide on the south facade. The brick facade to the east has four bays of asymmetrical double-windows, and an end bay with recessed double-windows wrapping around from the east side. The four eastern bays are also recessed between rounded, steel columns at the top two floors.

On the west facade on Broadway, the canopy from the south facade continues just a short way above the ground floor, over the storefront entrance at the south end. A very long storefront continues north along the ground floor, and then the grey granite cladding resumes, with a metal service door, and the entrance doors to the northern storefront, which is clad in metal and glass and continues to the northwest corner, and halfway across the north facade on 67th Street. The east half of this facade is clad in grey granite and has two freight entrances with metal-and-glass roll-down gates between two sets of service doors. A metal band like the one on the east facade runs all the way across the ground floor on the north and west sides, and partway on the south facade. The 2nd-3rd floors have curtain wall cladding framed by brick at the top and bottom. From the south end there are seven glass panes, separated by a metal panel from the section to the north that is slightly less angled, continued for another 12 panes, before another metal panel separates three differing sections of curtain wall where the base transitions from the tower to the low-rise north wing (above the granite cladding on the ground floor). The 7-pane and 12-pane curtain wall sections continue up the west facade of the tower, with the metal panels between the marking the slight change in angle. While the 7-pane south section has metal spandrels, the wider north section has thin brick spandrels. The south section extends up higher than the north.

The 2nd-5th floors of the low-rise north wing have curtain wall cladding on the west facade, with brick at the top and bottom, which continues onto the west half of the north facade. The east half has one bay of curtain wall, three panes across. The north facade of the tower, overlooking the low-rise wing and other short building at the northeast part of the block, has a large indention in the middle. The small east side has curtain wall cladding, five panes across, ending at the 26th floor. The recessed middle section has curtain wall cladding, four panes wide, at the east side (expanding to five panes above where the east section ends), and a bay of single-windows at the west side. The west section has three bays of asymmetical double-windows in the middle, a single-window at the west end that wraps around the corner, and a thinner single-window at the east that also wraps around the corner. This section also sets back above the 26th floor, with a roof terrace on top. The east-facing sidewall of the west section has a bay of double-windows wrapping around from the corner, and a single-window bay, and then joins into the recessed middle section via an angled bay of triple-windows. The west-facing sidewall of the east section has a bay of double-windows at the rear.

The building contains 143 condominium units.