667 Madison Avenue (New York City, New York)

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331-foot, 25-story Postmodern office building completed in 1987. Designed by David Paul Halpern, it is clad in white granite with limestone trim. The main entrance is at the east end of the north facade on 61st Street, in a large, 2-story, deeply-recessed area (but with a double-height ground floor, so as to equal three stories). Next to it, at the east end, is a narrow wing that is equally recessed, and has a service entrance with tall, black iron gates below a keystone. The main entrance has two sets of glass-and-steel revolving doors flanked by traditional sets of glass double-doors, set in a double-height glass wall. There is a 10-foot-tall bronze replica of the Statue of Liberty by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi in front of the main entrance, and a pair of light fixtures hang from the ceiling of the recessed area. The east-facing sidewall of the recessed area has a double-height, tripartite show-window in black steel framing, with the middle section projected forward; the upper portion of the bay is taller than the base portion. To the west of the recessed area, the ground floor has four more matching bays with double-height, tripartite show-windows. Above them tThe 2nd floor has large, arched lunette windows with keystones, with an open-air lunette centered over the recessed area to the east, flanked by two open-air squares.

The upper floors have an unusual and fine window treatment in which a black metal column is offset to one side in front of the large windows, giving the facade an interesting texture. There are nine of these bays across the north facade, plus a narrower bay of double-windows at the recessed east end bay (which has a single-window instead at the 2nd floor). The western two bays set back above the 5th floor, and the rest set back above the 7th. This pattern repeats (with the western bays setting back and then the rest also setting back two floors later) at the 8th & 10th floors, and then there is one more setback at the west corner above the 12th floor. Above the 10th-floor setback, the east end bay is wider, and changes to match the other bays. Each setback is marked by a black metal railing.

The west facade on the avenue has five large bays at the base, with the same double-height show-windows and 2nd-story lunettes. The upper floors have seven of the uneven window bays at the north, and two southern bays with single-windows. The setbacks on this facade mirror those on the north facade, creating a terraced northwest corner. Both facades have a final setback to the mechanical floor on top.

At the top floors of the south facade, rising above the neighboring building, there are three single-windows (two windows at the 5th floor down). The main shaft of the east facade has three bays of the uneven double-windows, aligned to the north.

This building is the headquarters of Loews Corporation, and CEO Jonathan Tisch has his office here, as does Hartz Mountain's Leonard Stern, who owns the building. The 40-foot-high limestone lobby featured a Renaissance tapestry woven for King Louis XIV. The ground floor retail spaces are occupied by Smythson of Bond Street leather goods store, and Paul & Shark Yachting clothing store.

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