Hilton Garden Inn New York/Manhattan-Chelsea (New York City, New York)

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204-foot, 23-story modernist hotel completed in 2007. Designed by Gene Kaufman, it is clad in dark-grey and white brick above a 2-story base clad in silver metal panels and set far back from the sidewalk. At both sides, a double-height extending wing of the ground floor projects out toward the street (both clad in the same metal paneling) and frames a central courtyard walkway to the main entrance, which has two sets of sliding glass doors below a small metal canopy. Above each doorway is a tripartite window, and the 2nd floor has another set of tripartite windows, these with metal vents built into them. Both of the extending wings have black granite water tables, and are lined with windows on the inner-facing sides. The ends have a tall 1-over-2 window to the inner side and a secondary entrance with a glass door to the outer side. The metal panels above the windows are lined with projecting flagpoles.

The upper floors have four bays of windows. The outer bays have narrow double-windows with black metal vents below them. The middle two bays are the same at the 3rd, 7th, 11th, 15th, 19th, & 23rd floors, while the rest are grouped into 3-story blocks of larger white bricks than the dark-grey elsewhere, and these bays have wider, square openings with double-windows and silver metal vents below them.

The east elevation is a blank brick wall with exposed floorplates, except at the vertical darker-grey painted band running up the middle.