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Images- Midtown 425 LEXINGTON AVENUE BLDG |
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architect |
Murphy & Helmut Jahn |
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location |
425 Lexington Avenue (between E43rd and E44th Streets) |
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date |
1988 |
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style |
Postmodern |
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construction |
31 floors |
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Office Building |
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notes |
In the Eighties, Manhattan didn't see rise from its ground only architectural masterpieces, but monstrosities too, destined to amaze the chronic lack of taste of the average American man and of many uneducated business potentates. The tricks are always the same: an odd shape, a little bit of Postmodernism, coated with flashy and dazzling materials (cf. Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza and Trump Tower). Here, from a neo-classical multi-setback and terrace base cladded with pinkish beige marble, rises a bulky square tower with chamfered angles, from which the characteristic is to present on its north and south sides a reverse slanted upper part. The façade is covered with garish, reflective turquoise blue glass, divided in squares by horizontal and vertical strips of the same marble. This thing -adjacent to the Chrysler Bldg-, will never evolve as a sympathetic kitscherie, but will remain as a big piece of shit. Special thanks to www.shabazzone.com (I think that's a bit harsh, personally! -ed.) |