50 Gramercy Park North

Located alongside Manhattan’s only surviving private park, 50 Gramercy Park
North incorporates the remodeled Gramercy Park Annex — completed in
1930 by Thompson & Churchill as a complementary extension to the
neighboring Gramercy Park Hotel — and a slice of entirely new architecture,
slipped into the space that lies between the two existing structures. The design
simplifies Thompson & Churchill’s original elevations, revealing an underlying formal
refinement and allowing the verticals of brickwork to read as contemporary versions
of the classical pilaster — monumental in scale but free from any form of ornament.
A specially designed window condition articulates the clarified grid. The new
architecture is a predominantly glass composition, also articulated in bronze,
whose more loft-like proportions bring quiet strength to the elevation.