Sofitel New York Hotel | movie / film / TV location, postmodern (architecture)

 hotel, movie / film / TV location, postmodern (architecture)

358-foot, 30-story Postmodern hotel completed in 2000 for the Sofitel Corporation. Designed by Brennan Beer Gorman Architects with interiors by Pierre-Yves Rochon and murals by EverGreene Architectural Arts, it has a limestone and blue glass facade and a T-shaped base. The wider facade and main bulk of the tower is at the north end of the site fronting 45th Street, with a narrow 3-story wing extending to 44th Street. This south facade has brass-and-glass entrance doors covered by a black metal canopy.

The lower half of the ground floor is clad in pinkish-brown polished granite, and there is also a brass service door at the left. Above the entrance there is a 2-story recessed section (offset slightly to the right) with bronze and glass infill. The 2nd floor has a large segmental-arched window enclosing a double door that opens onto a small balcony with glass railing above the entrance. On either side are projecting flagpoles. The 3rd floor has a round window in the bronze infill, with three bronze flying geese within the circle. The tower can be seen above and behind the south entrance wing.

The north facade on 45th Street has a 2-story base slightly set back from the lot line, and a further set-back tower. Both have an outward-curving center section. The ground floor is occupied by Gaby restaurant, with an entrance at the far west end, and multi-paned windows between the piers, which have polished granite bases. The 2nd floor has tall windows with thinner framing. Above the base, the center section has a curving glass curtain wall with limestone spandrels. From floors 3-19 the right edge of the curved, projecting section is slightly recessed between the spandrels. The two end bays on each side have single-windows framed in brown granite, and extensions of the projecting limestone spandrels at each floor. The end bays set back above the 21st floor, and the center section has a smaller setback above the 22nd floor. The upper floors have one end bay on each side, and set back to the lower roof above the 27th floor. The 3-story crown is circular, with a glass curtain wall. Mechanical equipment is housed at the upper level. Two shades of glass are used for the windows, with the lighter shade on the lower floors and a slightly darker tone near the top.

The south end of the circle on top runs into the stem of the "T", the narrower part of the tower that extends to the south. The south-facing walls of the side wings also have single-windows like those on the north side, with the outer bays setting back above the 21st floor, and the inner end bays setting back above the 27th floor. The south wing has a glass curtain wall on the east, curving around to a rounded south end, with a setback above the 21st floor. On the west-facing side of the south wing, the curtain wall is overlaid by a large, banded limestone section at the south half, also extending above the setback. The south wing is crowned by a cylindrical metal tower that encloses a rooftop water tank.

The hotel contains 398 guest rooms (including 52 suites), a restaurant (Gaby Brasserie), a bar, a 2,500 square-foot grand ballroom, and 8 meeting rooms under the ownership of Keck Seng Investments. The interior and exterior was used as a filming location for the Netflix original documentary "Room 2806: The Accusation" to provide contemporary establishing shots of the facility.

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