250 West 55th Street

 office building, skyscraper, commercial building

602-foot, 40-story modernist office building completed in 2013. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, it is clad in a curtain wall of reflective silver glass and vertical metal fins above a 2-story base. The ground floor has clearer glass, with tall storefronts, and the 2nd floor is clad in the same reflective glass as the set-back, square tower, slightly overhanging the ground floor. The main entrance is near the east side on 55th Street, deeply recessed with a 2-story glass wall and glass doors covered by a glass canopy extending partway out toward the building line. The side walls of the recessed entry area are clad in white metal panels, as is a section of the ground floor to the west. The base continues on the other side of the recessed entrance with a short end section at the east. The east half of the ground floor on 54th Street is clad in grey metal panels below metal louvers, and has several serviced doors and two loading docks. Besides the lobby spaces, the ground floor is occupied by The SAG-AFTRA Foundation Robin Williams Center, a TD Bank branch, Honeybrains Healthy Food Restaurant, Chick-Fil-A restaurant, Spyscape interactive spy museum, Le Pain Quotidien restaurant, and Vida Verde restaurant.