The Landon (New York City, New York)

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343-foot, 33-story postmodern residential building completed in 1998. Designed by Schuman, Lichtenstein, Claman & Efron, the main tower stands on the south side of 43rd Street but is connected to a 3-story commercial low-rise on 42nd Street through an arcade. The building is clad in dark-red and pale-orange brick, with pre-cast stone accents, and was originally known as New Gotham. The name was changed to the Helux when the building was sold in 2013, and then again to The Landon in 2019.

On 42nd Street, the base rises five floors in the middle six bays, and nine floors at the three end bays on each side before setting back to the main slab tower. The double-height main entrance is at the west end, framed in limestone, with a metal-and-glass door flanked by large windows. At the bottom, a limestone band above a low, grey granite water table extends to the east across the rest of the facade, to the underground parking garage entrance/exit and two small service doors. At the lower two floors the brick piers are outlined and capped in stone, and have small, mounted light fixtures. Above, there are exposed floor plates and tripartite windows in each bay, with metal air-conditioning vents below them.

Above the 9th-floor setback the organization of the facade changes; the middle four bays are framed by pale-orange piers and are divided in the center of the facade by a vertical band of grey-blue glass, three panes wide. The middlemost bays have triple-windows, and the next bays out have paired double-windows. The next bay to either side has a single-window and a double-window, with red brick in between. The next bay has tripartite windows in pale-orange brick, then a bay with two single-windows in red brick, and finally the end bays have paired double-windows in pale-orange brick.

The east elevation is windowless, faced in pale-orange brick with two wide vertical bands of red brick, and exposed floorplates, some with horizontal bands of red brick. The west elevation has a matching brick pattern, but also three bays of small single-windows (the north bay beginning at the 22nd floor.

The south building on 42nd Street is five bays wide, clad in dark-red brick with vertical pale-orange bands on the piers. There are plate-glass storefronts (and one metal service door) on the ground floor, and double-height windows on the upper two floors. A tall brick parapet has projecting bands of brick that move upward toward the center bay, with panels of pale-orange brick at the three middle bays. The roof line is marked by a brick and stone coping. The retail space is occupied by Massage Envy. The complex contains 375 apartment units.