The New York Times architecture critic Paul Goldberger has said 15 CPW was designed to "echo" Central Park West's many notable late Art Deco buildings. He describe the building in Vanity Fair as an "ingenious homage to the classic Candela-designed apartment buildings on Park and Fifth Avenues." He compares 15 CPW to the great apartment houses of the 1920s, 834 Fifth Avenue, 778 Park Avenue, 1040 Fifth Avenue and 740 Park Avenue.