The landmarks committee of Community Board 8 last night voted 7 to 2 to recommend that the Landmarks Preservation Commission not grant a certificate of appropriateness to a revised and significantly down-scaled plan by Aby Rosen to enlarge the low-rise building that occupies the west blockfront on Madison Avenue between 76th and 77th Streets.

The revised plans call for adding 6 floors to the existing 5-story building at 980 Madison Avenue designed by Walker & Poor that was erected in 1950 to house the Parke-Bernet auction house as well as a Schrafft's restaurant. The original building was modified several times and the Rosen plan calls for restoring it almost completely to its original design, which had far fewer windows.

The landmarks committee of Community Board 8 voted unanimously last night to endorse the restoration part of the Rosen proposal, which will be heard today at the Landmarks Preservation Commission and considered tomorrow night at a "full" meeting of Community Board 8.

The commission did not vote on the first design offered by Mr. Rosen and his architect, Sir Norman Foster, who has also designed the revised plan. The first plan called for a reflective-glass, curved tower to rise 22-stories above the northern end of the existing building with the remainder of the existing building's large roof converted to a sculpture garden. The tower, directly across from the Mark Hotel that is being renovated to include some condominium apartments, would have contained 18 condominium apartments.

Mr. Rosen, who is an owner of Lever House and the Seagram Building, two of the city's most famous world-class modern landmarks, regularly attends the evening auctions of contemporary art in the city.

Whereas the first design did not comply with existing zoning and building regulations, the new design does and only requires approval from the landmarks commission because it falls within an historic district.

The new design uses only 152,000 square feet of the 203,000 square feet permitted under existing zoning and will seek Gold LEED certification as an environmentally friendly structure.

The existing building, which is directly across Madison Avenue from the Carlyle Hotel, is commercial and the proposed addition will add residential uses and its top will be a landscaped garden above a setback penthouse level.

The facade of the addition is very unusual and consists of a "veil" of thin horizontal strips several feet in front of glazing. Many of the strips can open as shutters at a 90-degree angle and then several of them can be moved, like an accordion, to one side to create a quite broad opening.

Brandon Haw of the Foster + Partners office said that this part of the facade of the addition will add "a mysterious feeling" and would be a "contemporary" addition to the "elegance" of the Upper East Side.

George James, a member of an organization of neighbors called New Yorkers for Responsible Development, told the committee that the addition should be setback. William Kahn, another member, said that the design was "too loud from a visual perspective," a "patchwork," "a cacophony of textures with no integrity, no harmony," and was "out of context - a containership on a masonry base."

Richard Feigen, the famous art dealer, said the design was "a building in bad taste" that was "heavy at the top and light at the bottom."

Shahab Karmely, a developer who lives several blocks away from the site, spoke in support of what he described as "a carefully thought-out design."

The resolution passed in opposition to the design of the addition, which will have some balconies, raised questions about the appropriateness of its massing and its color. Mr. Haw had indicated that a final determination of its color had not yet been made but that it would probably be somewhere "between champagne and terra-cotta."