Capital Grille (New York City, New York)

 restaurant, interesting place, postmodern (architecture)

2-story postmodern retail complex between the two buildings of the Chrysler Center, completed in 2001 and known as The Chrysler Trylons. Designed by Philip Johnson, it consists of an east and west section of two floors clad in grey granite blocks, joined in the middle by a jagged grouping of three steep glass pyramids. The shards are pinstriped by stainless-steel framing, and the glass is slightly blue-tinted, and the crazy angled are intended to reflect the top of the Chrysler Building. The intersecting three-sided pyramids reach 57 feet, 68 feet and 73 feet high, each differently angled.

The grey stone section to the east has openings at the ground floor only, with glass-and-metal doors and windows, occupied by The Capital Grille. The section to the west has two bays of plate-glass show-windows on both the 1st and 2nd floor, divided by a rounded column in the center. There is also a metal service door at the far left end. This section is occupied by eTrade.