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New York Architecture
Images- Midtown 461 FIFTH AVENUE BLDG |
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architect |
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill |
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location |
461 5th Avenue (northeast corner of E40th Street) |
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date |
1988 |
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style |
Postmodern |
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construction |
25 floors |
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type |
Office Building |
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notes |
At first sight, when you look at this rather strange building, you think it is an ancient one which was hollowed out, eviscerated, and refilled with a new turquoise blue glass tower. But you're wrong: the 461 is a pure eighties Postmodern work. If we except the rounded corner made of glass, the 8-story base is literally a subtile pastiche of the ending XIXth century style, with intersected vertical and horizontal lines, framing the windows, and ended by heavy cornices. From there rises a semi-cylindric glass tower, enframed on each corner by square columns of the same style as the base, connected by impressive neo-classical bracing girders. A real success, in keeping with its environment. |