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275-foot, 24-story postmodern residential building completed in 2007. Designed by Fox & Fowle, it is clad in orange-red brick, blue glass, and grey metal. The main entrance is on the north facade on 52nd Street, in a 2-story section of glass and metal that angles away from the rest of the facade. It has a revolving door and a traditional glass-and-metal door below a glass canopy carried on steel support ribs that narrow toward the ends. The rest of this small section is a glass curtain wall, with pale-green opaque panes between the two floors, and a projecting, grey metal wall framing its west end. Set back to the right is a bay with horizontal glass panes between metal framing, and then a projecting 5-story section at the east end, with the lower two floors taller than those above. The east end of this section has a wide pier banded with darker red brick on the two lower floors, and the rest has a glass-and-metal storefront on the ground floor (with horizontal panes between the metal framing and a double-doors on the left), and a band of windows on the 2nd floor (also with horizontal panes). At the 3rd-5th floors this section has shorter window band with vertical panes, and two sets of metal air-conditioning vents below them.

To the east the main tower section has full-width window bands and brick spandrels between floors. The bands wrap around a short distance onto the east facade, with another bay of uneven double-windows behind it (one pane wider than the other). Behind them is a projecting section of glass-and-metal curtain wall; at its north end it begins at the 3rd floor, supported by a round, dark-grey metal column below. This projecting section angles out slightly as it moves back to the south, and has bands of brick spandrels at the middle, up to the 17th floor. Closer to the south end, the angle reverses and slopes back toward the west. Above the 17th floor, there is a slight jog in the facade where the angle changes, and the corner here has balconies with glass railings. There are more balconies on the top floors at the north end of the projecting curtain-wall section, beginning above the 17th floor as well. Both angles of the curtain wall section set back above the 24th floor to the brick-clad core and mechanical bulkhead that rises above and sloped gently up to the north. At the south end, the east facade has a short section of curtain wall, with its north half having brick spandrels; it sets back above the 21st floor.

The south facade on 51st Street also has a tall, 2-story base of brick. It has three main bays with large, double-height openings with glass-and-metal infill. The west end has a narrower bay with a pair of metal service door, and metal louvers above. The east end is recessed far back and begins the glass-and-metal curtain wall of the tower's southeast corner. The upper floors of the tower are similar to the north facade, but there are also small, angled, projecting balconies at the west end, from the 15th-21st floors. The top three floors are set back from the south and west sides and clad in curtain wall with metal spandrels. The curtain wall of the south facade wraps around the southwest corner onto the south end of the west facade. To the north it has brick cladding, with two bays of double-windows, and this section projects out from the rest of the west facade. The north half of the west facade has band of windows with brick spandrels. The top seven floors has small, projecting balconies at the south end of this section.

The building contains 288 apartment units. Besides the lobby, the ground floor is occupied by Ardesia wine bar, and Kidville preschool.