Hawthorn Park

 skyscraper, apartment building, 2014_construction

640-foot, 54-story postmodern residential building completed in 2014. Designed by the Stephen B. Jacobs Group, it is very similar to the slightly shorter apartment tower to the south at 175 West 60th, which was built just a couple years later. Both are clad in light-beige brick and silver glass, with windows wrapping around the corners. Hawthorn Park's 3-story base is clad in limestone, with light-grey marble lining the beveled edges of the piers, and also at their bases, in the spandrels between the 2nd & 3rd floors, and the entirety of the three eastern bays on the north facade. The floors are taller at these bays, such that there are only two floors instead of the tree to the west. They have decorative metal grids at the 2nd floor, flanked by square panes of glass that continue down to the ground floor as tripartite glass infill. The main entrance is in the center of these three bays, with a revolving glass door flanked by traditional glass doors, covered by a suspended metal-and-glass canopy. To the west, there is a narrow bay with double-windows, and an even thinner end bay with single-windows. The west facade has two wide bays at the base, with a narrow north bay (with glass double-doors into a retail space), and a medium-width south bay, with two service doors. There is a small 1-story extension at the south end, clad in beige brick above two shades of grey stone, that has a single meal service door. On the south facade the 3rd floor of the base has, from west to east, a narrow single-window, a wide tripartite bay, a double-window bay, two wide 4-pane window bays, and a double-window bay that wraps around the corner; these are all framed in grey stone, with a terrace and glass railing projecting out in front of the two 4-window bays. The 2nd floor has only two bays of windows, and at the east end there is a wide, long ramp from 61st Street with an entrance and exit to the underground parking garage.

The upper floors on the north facade have seven not-quite symmetrical bays. Brick piers frame the middle five, all with tripartite windows. The western of these five is wider than the others, and the center bay, next bay to the west, and the eastern of the middle bays have the end panes of the tripartite windows slightly recessed. The bay directly to the left of the center bay has taller windows, due to having lower panes in place of the brick spandrels that are between the floors in the other four bays. Exposed, light-grey floor plates run between every floor, jutting forward around the piers. The two end bays have triple-windows that wrap around the corners, without brick spandrels. At the 50th-52nd floors the five center bays combine into two bays (the two eastern bays joined together, and the three western bays together), and the main roof line is located at the 52nd floor. The east end bay is recessed at the corner, with balconies projecting out to the building line.

The south facade also has seven bays. The center bay has five panes (narrow-wide-narrow-wide-narrow) without brick spandrels. The bay to the west also lacks spandrels and has tripartite windows wrapping around the corner to a short setback. The next bay, recessed behind the base, has tripartite windows, as does the bay to the east of the center bay; the next bay is narrow with single-windows. Both end bays have tripartite windows wrapping around the corners without brick spandrels; the panes in the east end bay are narrower than those in the west. At the top, the center bay and the two to the east combine at the50th-52nd floors into one very wide bay. Also, the east end bay at these three floors is recessed at the corner, with balconies projecting out to the building line.

The west facade facing the avenue has four middle bays with tripartite windows. The southern middle bay has no brick spandrels, and the other three have recessed end panes. The end bays have triple-windows wrapping around from the north and south facades, with no brick spandrels.

The east facade has six bays. The southern three project out the most from the north end, with the 3rd bay from the north also projecting out, but not as far. The end bays again have triple-windows wrapping around the corners. The next southern bay has triple-windows, and the 3rd bay from the south has tripartite windows wrapping around the north corner of the setback to the next bay. This bay also has tripartite windows wrapping around the corner of the other setback. The 2nd bay from the north has double-windows. None of the bays on the east elevation have brick spandrels, except for above the 21st, 41st, & 49th floors, where brick spandrels bands completely encircle all four facades of the tower. The recessed balconies at the50th-52nd floors on the east facade extend from the corners over to the two center bays.

All tall, 3-story mechanical housing clad in brick rises from the center of the 52nd-floor roof, with a duplex penthouse extending to the 53rd & 54th floor at part of the south and east elevations.

The building contains 338 apartment units. The ground floor along the avenue is occupied by RX30 Fitness.