795 Columbus Avenue

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177-foot, 15-story postmodern residential building completed in 2011. Designed by Costas Kondylis Architects, it has a tower clad in a curtain wall of blue glass and grey metal spandrels and mullions rising from a 2-story podium of dark-grey granite and glass. The main entrance is centered in the west facade on the avenue, with steel-framed glass double-doors set in a glass surround and covered by a suspended glass canopy; there is a band of large windows on the 2nd floor above the entrance. This center bay is flanked by two narrow, 2-story bays of high-reflective glass. There is subtle banding on the piers, and the rest of the facade is separated into four bays on the north and south ends, with ground-floor glass-and-metal storefronts. The northernmost bay has a freight entrance with a metal roll-down gate. The 2nd floor has bands of windows below metal louvers, and is occupied by Basis Independent Manhattan PK-8 School. A simple metal railing tops the base. The north and south facades of the base have three bays with glass-and-metal infill.

The residential tower rises from the center of the podium, situated toward the rear (the east end). It has a center section with grey metal panels surrounding a center bay of double-windows, flanked by a bay of triple-windows and single-windows. To either side are narrow sections with curtain walls of glass and thin metal mullions and spandrels, followed by north and south wings of curtain wall cladding projecting from the rest of the facade, setting back above the 10th floor. Above is another curtain wall section (not quite as wide as the projecting wings) extending to the roof line and recessed from the center section, and then a further-recessed end section repeating the wide, grey metal panels - a double-window bay rises above the projecting wing, and a triple-window end bay extends past it, rising straight up from the podium to the roof line.

The north and south facades of the tower have central sections with grey metal paneling separating a double- and triple-window bay. To the west is the projecting curtain-wall wing that ends at the 10th floor, and to the east is another curtain-wall section, slightly projecting to the north or south and setting back from the east above the 10th floor. At the rear, east-facing facade, the 2nd floor of the podium is set back to the line of the tower, which also sets back above the 10th floor. The lower floors of the tower have two recessed bays with two double-windows, in grey metal paneling. In the center is a projecting curtain-wall bay with two triple-windows, and to either side are projecting curtain-walls sections with two triple-windows flanking a double-window. The end bays are recessed, with curtain-wall cladding. The upper floors have a wide central section of grey metal cladding, with a central, 4-pane window, followed by two double-windows, a triple-window, and a single-window. There is a curtain wall section near either end, with recessed end bays with grey metal paneling.

The building contains 132 apartment units. The 2nd floor is occupied by Basis Independent Manhattan PK-8 School. The ground floor along the avenue is occupied by Target, Bareburger restaurant, and Home Goods department store.