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New York Architecture
Images- Midtown THE FRED F. FRENCH BUILDING |
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Sloan & Robertson and H. Douglas Ives |
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551 Fifth Avenue |
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1926-1927 |
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Art Deco |
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The 38-storey building rises from a three-storey base clad in limestone and decorated bronze paneling. The austere, vertically accentuated facade of orange brick is enhanced by terra-cotta decor on the setbacks. The narrow, east-west slab of tower rises uninterrupted for 17 floors on the Fifth Avenue side all the way to the triplex penthouse above the last setback, topped by a watertank housing at 131 m with large, colourful rectangular panels depicting allegorical themes (image). On the eastern portion of the plot, the building rises as a wing with a series of setbacks. |
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Office Building |
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| Special thanks to Carter B. Horsley of the www.thecityreview.com |