The Vaux (New York City, New York)

 condominiums, 1962_construction, Modern (architecture)

210-foot, 19-story modernist residential building completed in 1962. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, it occupies the southeastern corner of the superblock knows as Park West Village. The Vaux is named for Calvert Vaux, one of the designers of Central Park. The other, Frederick Law Olmsted, is similarly honored by the name of the building to the west. In all there are seven residential buildings in the block, four slab towers oriented east-west, and another three running north-south at the west end (built much later in 2011), with parking and park space in the middle. The corresponding northern buildings at 392 & 400 Central Park West are mirror-images of the southern pair.

The facades are clad in pale red brick. The main entrance is at the center of the south facade facing 97th Street, with glass double-doors next to two large plate-glass windows. The upper floors have two bays of double windows in the center, flanked to either side by triple-windows joined to glass doors that open onto the ends of wide, projecting balconies spanning from door to door and across the center bays; the balconies have mostly horizontal metal railings. Continuing to either side are tripartite windows, double-windows, three wide tripartite bays, a narrow double-window, a wider double-window, and recessed end bays with shorter, projecting balconies.

The north facade is similar, but has three evenly-spaced balconies between the shorter end bays. The narrow east and west facades have two bays of triple-windows.

The building was converted from rental apartments to condominiums in 1985, with 413 units.

www.thevauxnyc.com/