ABC-7 Studio

 office building, 1991_construction, television studio

10-story modernist office building completed in 1991. Designed by Kohn Pederson Fox, its lower half is clad in orange brick above a ground glass-and-metal ground floor with a grey granite water table, and the upper half is a blue-silver glass curtain wall. The main entrance is at the north end, separated from the ground-floor plate-glass windows by a limestone panel of various sized blocks. The entry has glass double-doors next to a revolving door. A digital ribbon board runs across the top of the ground floor on the west facade and continues partway onto the south facade on 66th Street, above the plate-glass bays. The middle part of the ground floor on the south facade is another, wider limestone panel, while the east end has two wide bays with recessedl opaque glass of greenish-grey. In front of the glass, topping the water table, are planters with ferns; a round, white column separates these two bays. The orange brick cladding extend down at the far east end, where there is a metal service door.

The 2nd-5th floors have square window openings, with limestone sills and lintels. There are 11 such bays along the south facade, with another at the west end that is separated from the rest by a bay of larger, asymmetrical double-windows in metal framing. This bay has metal spandrels and projecting metal sills, as well as a white metal fin running vertically from the 3rd floor to up above the roof line; the fin is placed near the left side of this bay, separating the wider and narrower panes of the double-window. The west facade on the avenue has eight of the square window bays, with a brick area at the north end that has no openings. This brick area continues at the north end of the upper floors - to its south the glass curtain wall begins at the 6th floor, with white metal spandrels between floors. The curtain wall continues a short way onto the south facade until it runs into the vertical fin. To the east of the fin, the upper floors and curved, angling back with bands of glass between white metal spandrels. The spandrels to the left of the fin continue a short ways past it to the east as projecting, balcony-like extensions below the 8th-10th floors.

The 6th floor atop the base continues as a glass band, with a setback above it. The east part of the 7th-10th floors, next to the curved, receding glass section, has nine bays of square windows matching those on the lower floors.

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