American Radiator Building- Bryant Park Hotel

This landmark building at 40 West 40th Street was built in 1924, and is based on a design that was rejected for the competition for the Tribune Building in Chicago ( that was the competition that prompted Frank Lloyd Wright to design a building all sheathed in glass, which was unheard of in that day).

The colors and design elements are supposed to suggest coal and fire...

In 2001, it was transformed into the Bryant Park Hotel...since it was a landmark, most of the original building's features had to be preserved.