The Springs Mills Building.
Green glass skyskraper was built on L-shaped lot between 1961 and 1963. On April 13, 2010, Landmarks voted unanimously to designate the Springs Mills Building at 104 West 40th Street as an individual City landmark. The Springs Mills linen company hired the firm of Harrison & Abramowitz to construct a 21-story building on an L-shaped through-block lot in 1961. The architects submitted building plans just before the City implemented its comprehensive overhaul of the zoning resolution.
The building’s main entrance is located in its slender 40th Street frontage, accessed through a small plaza. The structure’s wide base occupies the lot’s southern portion along 39th Street and includes setbacks at the sixth and twelfth floors. The building’s thin tower features a tinted green glass curtain wall in the form of an elongated hexagon and divided by aluminum mullions. The building is slightly wider at the center of the lot than at either of its frontages, allowing natural light to reach the structure’s interior.
