The Cortland Condominium

 condominium, high-rise, postmodern (architecture)

250-foot, 26-story postmodern residential building completed in 2022. Designed by Robert A. M. Stern Architects, it was developed by Related Companies and Mitsui with interiors by Olson Kundig of Seattle. The facades are clad in orange-brown brick, black metal, and blue glass above a 2-story limestone base.

A narrow wing extends from the main bulk of the building to 22nd Street, with an entrance corridor at the ground level covered by a metal-and-glass canopy. The 2-story base here is clad in rusticated, rough-faced stone, with a tripartite window over the entry. To the right the base extends with a double-height round-arch opening into a courtyard. A lantern hangs from the underside of the arch. The sides of the passageway leading back into the courtyard are faced in rough-faced stone with panels of greenery on the east side, and open bays below the south wing on the west side. The narrow south facade continues on the upper floors with brick end piers, banded on the 3rd floor, with a black iron center bay of tripartite windows flanked by angled end panes that recess into the facade. At the 8th-9th floors the brick has a pattern of raised bricks, and there is a setback above the 9th floor. The side elevations of the narrow south wing, and the south-facing walls of the rest of the building have a variety of single, paired, and tripartite windows.

The west facade facing the avenue is symmetrical, with a stone 2-story base. The ground floor is lined with black metal-and-glass bays, and the 2nd floor has a mix of 2-over-4 and 1-over-4 windows with black metal framing. The 3rd floor is transitional, with stone banding. At the center is a 3-story bay with four sets of double-windows with black metal mullions and spandrels. To either side is a double-window, two tripartite windows, a 3-story stack of projecting, black iron oriel windows with angled end panes (with regular tripartite windows on the floors above), and another tripartite window. There is a setback at the middle five bays above the 5th floor, and the outer sections set back above the 9th floor.

On the higher floors, there are two more stacks of projecting oriel windows from the 10th-20th floors, grouped into 2-story units by brick spandrels. The brick piers framing them have vertical grooves, and in between are three bays of double-windows. Toward the ends are a wider tripartite window with a single-window on either side. These set back above the 23rd floor. The uppermost floors have four bays of double-windows with grooved piers.

The north facade on 23rd Street has another entrance just west of center, in a 2-story beveled surround. There is a glass-and-metal canopy over the double-doors, and a narrow slit window on either side of the surround. To the west are five bays like those on the west facade, and to the east the ground floor has two small bays and then a very wide band of windows with several doors at the end, followed by two more regular-sized bay at the east end. The 2nd floor has bays like on the west facade, alternating 2-over-4 windows with narrower 2-over-4 windows that are flanked by 1-over-4 windows in a tripartite arrangement. The 3rd floor has the same window pattern, and is banded. The upper floors have a stacked bay of wide oriel windows from the 5th-9th floor above the entrance. There is a setback at this bay above the 9th floor, and to the west, where there are three tripartite window bays alternating the two double-window bays - except for at the 4th-7th floors, where the middle one is replaced by smaller oriel windows. At the 4th-7th floors the piers have vertical grooves, and at the 8th-9th floors there is a pattern of raised bricks. Above the setback the upper tower an east section of two paired window bays and a single-window in the middle, with triple-window on the sides where there are black metal spandrels. At the 19th floor this section has windows in a metal-and-glass curtain wall, where this section terminates. The west section of the upper tower is set farther back, and has a single-window and a tripartite window, with stair-stepping setbacks from the west at the top floors. To the east of the large stack of oriel windows, there are nine bays, with smaller oriels in three of them, from the 4th-7th floors. Two double-window bays in between these are recessed from the rest of the facade. At either end is a double-window and tripartite window bays, with vertical grooves on the piers framing the double-windows. The grooves extend past a band course above the 7th floor to the 9th floor. The 10th floor has a wide band of windows in the middle, spanning the five bays below, with a double-window and tripartite window to either side, and setback except at the end bays. At the 11th-12th floors the end bays have larger tripartite windows and then they set back as well. This east wing of the building ends at the 14th floor, and the east facade has a variety of different windows at each floor.

The building contains 141 condominium units.

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