Columbus Square | high-rise, apartment building, 2010_construction

 high-rise, apartment building, 2010_construction

326-foot, 29-story postmodern residential building completed in 2010. Designed by Costas Kondylis & Partners, the slab tower rises from a double-height podium that extends to the north and south all the way to the ends of the block. Flanking the tower, atop the rear half of the podium, are two 1-story structures extending halfway to the ends of the podium. Both are divided into three wide bays and have green roofs. The rest of the podium around the tower has a landscaped rooftop deck. At the center of the podium is a gap extending back to the tower's main entrance, which is flanked by a pair of ground-level, open-air, through-building pedestrian passageways with slightly vaulted ceilings. The walls of the podium at this center section are clad in banded, white-painted cast-stone with a grey granite water table. The main entrance extends out partway from the tower facade, with glass double-doors in a curved glass surround, below a glass-and-metal suspended canopy. Stone walls also curving outward toward the street frame the glass area. To the north and south of the passageways, the podium has tall metal-and-glass storefronts in bays separated by banded stone piers. There are eight bays at both the north and south ends, each with a glass railing on top, between the piers, enclosing the terrace space on the podium roof.

The north and south facades of the podium, facing 97th & 100th Streets, have three bays, with glassy storefronts in the eastern two, and freight entrances with roll-down metal gates at the west bays. At the west end are ramps down to the underground parking garage, as well as enclosed metal staircases up to the terrace level on the podium roof.

The tower is clad in blue glass and white metal. There are three slightly-projecting bays on the east facade, each with thin metal spandrels and a pair of black metal vents running up the middle; these three bays set back above the 28th floor. Flanking each of these bays is a recessed double-window surrounded by white metal paneling. The glass curtain-wall end bays have vents at the inner edge, and set back above the 25th floor, continuing above to the roof line as narrower bays.

Projecting from the thinner north and south facades are center sections with a triple-window and double-window framed by white metal paneling, with a broader paneled area at the west end of the projecting section. On either end are narrow sections of glass curtain wall.

The rear, west-facing facade of the tower has a white metal-paneled section in the center with two double-windows and two single-windows. To either side is a narrow curtain wall section, a narrow metal-framed section with double-windows, and wider ends sections of glass curtain wall. The west-facing sides of the projecting bays at the north and south ends have a double-window and single-window in white metal paneling. A large rooftop mechanical penthouse and water tower enclosure is clad in dark-blue glass in the middle and ends, with white metal paneling in between.

The tower contains 359 apartment units. The ground floor along the avenue is occupied by a Whole Foods market on the south half, with the north half occupied by Sephora cosmetics, TJ Maxx clothing store, Michael's art & hobby store, Kinder Care Learning Center, and a Bank of America branch.