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New York
Architecture 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.) |
