The very handsome, 11-story, residential condominium building with 26 apartments at 520 West 19th Street was erected in 2008 by Bishopscourt Realty, of which Keith and John Jacobson are principals.

SLCE Architects and Selldorf Architects, which worked on the interiors of the Urban Glass House condominium building at 330 Spring Street, and the interiors of the Abercrombie & Fitch store on Fifth Avenue at 56th Street, designed the building, which is distinguished by is use of "midnight blue" terracotta and a curved entrance marquee.

The lobby, which is attended 24 hours a day, has terracotta-clad columns, Venetian plaster walls with granite and marble details and silver-gray terrazzo.

The mid-block building has sidewalk landscaping and is between 10th and 11th Avenues and is down the street from the spectacular, new Frank O. Gehry-designed office building on 11th Avenue. It is also next to the Metal Shutter Houses designed by Shigeru Ban and it is across the street from Jean Nouvel's curved tower at 100 Eleventh Avenue.

This building has 8 two-bedroom apartments with 1,460 to 1,582 square feet, 16 three-bedroom apartments with 1,980 to 2,090 square feet, some with terraces, and 2 five-bedroom duplex penthouses with interiors and 4,054 and 4,232 square feet and terraces of about 640 square feet.

The top two floors are setback.

Apartments have floor-to-ceiling windows. Kitchens have Arclinea cabinetry, Marmo Grablo marble countertops, Sub-Zero refrigerator and wine cooler, Miele dishwasher and Axxis/Nexxt washers and dryers by Bosch. Bathrooms have marble or travertine vanities, tub walls and decks, bathtubs and sinks by Kohler, toilets by Duravit, sink and tub fixtures by Grohe.

There are storage units in the basement.

Ms. Selldorf was the architect of another Chelsea residential condominium project that was being built at about the same time as this building - 200 Eleventh Avenue. That project was notable for its sculpted fa??ade and for the fact that 14 of its 16 apartments had "garage" rooms where residents could house their car with a special freight elevator.