Fifteen Central Park West is designed to complement its neighbors. The nineteen-story House joins the palisade of park-facing apartment houses that stretches for more than two miles along Central Park West. The thirty-five-story Tower takes its place among the 1920s towers punctuating that palisade – the Century, the Majestic, the San Remo, and the Eldorado – as well among as the post-war towers that line Broadway to form a back range to the skyline. On the west, shopfronts will participate in the active pedestrian life of the stretch of Broadway between the great cultural anchors of Lincoln Center and Jazz at Lincoln Center, now located at Columbus Circle. Fifteen Central Park West is completely clad in limestone, complementing the light-toned brick and stone of the older towers and contrasting with the dark reflections of the newer buildings around Columbus Circle. The warmth and natural variation of limestone has made it the material of choice for New York's most important buildings, those with the highest architectural ambitions, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Frick Museum to the Empire State Building to some of the great apartment houses like 998 Fifth Avenue and 740 Park Avenue; no material takes the light more beautifully.