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New York
Architecture Images- Lower Manhattan 2 BROADWAY |
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architect |
Emery Roth & Sons |
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location |
2 BROADWAY |
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date |
1959 |
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International Style II |
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construction |
32 stories |
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Office Building |
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notes |
Rose in 1959 next to the Standard Oil Building at the beginning of Broadway
as one of the first modernist office towers in Downtown Manhattan.
It replaced the Produce Exchange Building (arch. George B. Post of the New York World Building, 1884) as an "acceptable" sacrifice to get the Downtown development on the way. The building occupies most of its large plot, rising in triple setbacks, with only the western portion of the building, facing Bowling Green, rising to the full height of 33-storeys. Original designs by William Lescaze with Kahn & Jacobs, had a full-plot base with a tower slab placed at right angles with Broadway. In 1957, however, developers Uris hired Emery Roth & Sons to utilize as much as possible of the building rights with their 129,180 m² design. The completed facade consists of a glass wall of alternate-sized glass panes of a bluish tint, having a similar overall appearance as the glass-walled facades of the Javits Federal Office Building. |
