Hotels
95th Avenue
145-07 95th Avenue, Queens, NY
Hotel
23,400 SF
Completed
A slim, nine-story tower on 95th Avenue turns a modest footprint into a striking, near-monochrome mosaic: matte-black rainscreen planks fold around the corner while a field of offset white and silver composite panels drifts upward like digital snowfall. Narrow balconies carve a vertical groove on the primary façade, their perforated metal rails catching light by day and glowing gently after dusk to signal individual guest rooms. The play of alternating dark and light modules continues down to a polished black-granite plinth, anchoring the hotel to the street and framing a transparent lobby that extends the pixel rhythm inside. Crowned by staggered parapets that hide rooftop mechanicals, the completed building reads less as a single mass than as a stack of shifting pixels—an abstract landmark for the busy Queens streetscape.