ABC Headquarters Building (New York City, New York)

 office building, high-rise, 1989_construction, postmodern (architecture)

292-foot, 22-story postmodern office building completed in 1989. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox, it is clad in red brick and limestone, with a 6-story base below a tower with curving, semicircular ends. The west half of the base, where the tower rests, has seven alternating wide and narrow bays. The east half of the base, only rising five floors, has five more bays, wide in the middle and narrow at the ends. A grey granite water table runs along the entire lower part of the ground floor, slightly interrupted by the lower edges of the windows. There is a steel service door at the far east end, and the entire ground floor has horizontal bands of angled bricks. The ground-floor windows are 2-over-3, slightly recessed, with silver metal framing and simple limestone lintels. Above them are large limestone spandrel panels extending to the 2nd floor's tripartite windows in the three middle bays. The end bays have much smaller double-windows with the limestone panels below, also seen at the 3rd-5th floors. The middle bays of the east half at the 3rd-4th floors have double-height window openings in tripartite configuration, with shorter limestone spandrels below and taller between the 4th & 5th floors.

The main entrance spans three bays at the center of the west half, with a recessed entry portico that has two sets of revolving doors in the wider middle bay and traditional glass doors in the other two bays, all with stainless-steel framing. The entry is framed in grey granite, with a limestone panel centered above it bearing metal numerals "77" inside a metal circle. The windows to either side match those on the east half of the base, in a narrow-wide-narrow pattern. The exceptions are the 3rd-5th floor double-windows at the bays flanking the center bay are recessed, and the center bay is larger, with 3-story tripartite windows at the 3rd-5th floors that are flanked by recessed, narrow end panes. A pair of projecting flagpoles flanks the center bay at the 2nd floor. There are horizontal bands of angled, vertically-laid brick between each floor, and the 5th floor is capped by a similar band topped by a limestone band course. The tower rises above the middle of the west half of the base, with small 6th-floor wings rising on either side. Theses are both banded and have two bays of double-windows. There is a setback at the middle bays, and double-height tripartite windows at the 7th-8th and 9th-10th floors, above which the outer bays set far back to the sides of the tower. The rounded end of the tower begins above the 8th floor at the middle bays. As the set-back end bays rise along the ends of the tower portion, they both have a bay of double-windows.

The tower is rounded at the south end (as well as the north), cradled between the end wings with seven double-height bays of tripartite windows wrapping around the curve. The window bays are triple-height at the 20th-22nd floors, with orange brick instead of red at the top two floors.

The north facade on 67th Street is very similar to the south facade, but without the east part of the base. In place of the main entrance there is a secondary entrance only in the center bay, with steel double-doors and the address circle above has the number "60". There are two loading docks with roll-down metal gates at the west end of the ground floor. The only difference on the tower is the western set-back end bay only having single-windows. It is narrower due to a small setback halfway across the east facade. This elevation has four narrow bays of double-windows on its south half, and five at the north half. The west facade has a center bay of tripartite windows, flanked by four narrow double-windows on either side. The top two floors have orange brick all the way around the tower, and the rooftop mechanical equipment is concealed by a metal screen that slopes up and outward and runs all the way around the perimeter.