Ryan/Chelsea-Clinton Community Health Center (New York City, New York)

 health center, apartment building

6-story modernist health center/residential building completed in 1999. Designed by Horowitz Architects, it is clad in beige and dark grey-brown brick, and larger blocks of pink bricks. The upper floors contains 86 apartment units, with a 20,000-square-foot health center on the ground floor. The building is L-shaped, with a lower wing wrapping around and extending down to 45th Street.

On the east facade, the north half of the 6-story section is mostly dark brick, with a section of pink larger bricks at the north end of the lower two floors. The south half of the 6-story section is beige brick, and there is a column of pink brick in the middle separating the two halves, each of which have two bays of double-windows on the top four floors. There are smaller, square single-windows in the middle pink section. At the lower two floors, the north half has two bays of large, square windows at its pink section, while the brown section has a pair of stacked, smaller square windows at the ground floor, and a single square window at the 2nd floor. There is a metal service door at the connecting section. The south half also has a stacked window and small square window on the 2nd floor, at its north section, in beige brick. There is a large square section of darker brown brick at the south part of the south half of this facade, with a large, circular window on the ground floor. The 2nd floor has a band of three windows, and a band of pink brick sets off the 3rd floor. The north half with the dark-colored brick has a slightly higher roof line than the south half, and the pink section in between extends up farther.

At the south end is a 1-story section with the main entrance. It is clad in the larger pink bricks, and the entrance is blue metal-framed glass sliding doors below a band of windows that also extends over to the right above a separate square window.

The north facade on 46th Street has pink brick at the east end on the lower two floors, where there are two bays of large square windows. To the right is a dark-grey section with a metal service door and a smaller square window, with another window at the 2nd floor. Above these two sections, the east end of the upper floors are dark-grey brick with three bays of double-windows. Continuing west, the lower two floors have larger pink brick, and the upper floors are beige, with five double-windows. The ground floor has three more sets of service doors, along with two square windows and a couple of vents, and the 2nd floor has two square windows at the east side, and the beginning of a window band at the west. This continues onto the west end of the north facade, which is dark-grey brick, and has another entrance at the ground floor. The window band at the 2nd floor ends abruptly and at the west end is a recessed area with an angled rear wall of pink brick with two small windows. The top four floors have a double-window bay at the west end.

The west facade of the 6-story section is mostly pink brick on the bottom two floors, and dark-grey on top, except for the southern part, which is beige brick. Near the north end, the lower two floors have a 2-story window section, and a hodgepodge of square windows to the south on the 2nd floor, while the ground floor has a couple larger windows and a service door. The upper floors have five bays of double-windows in the dark-colored section and two more in the beige area. The 1-story low-rise wing extending to the south is clad in the pink brick, with more square windows, and a roof terrace on top. The windows generally have metal framing painted bright blue or red.