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New York
Architecture Images-Upper East Side Apartment House |
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architect |
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates Associated Architect: Arthur May |
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location |
188 East 70th Street |
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1986 |
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Post-Modernism |
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construction |
Builder: Trafalgar House Real Estate Inc. |
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Apartment Building |
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notes |
This apartment building
in the Post-modern style references classical architecture in an
exaggerated, playful manner. Post-modernism arose in the 1970’s in reaction
to the austerity of International Style design and sought to promote the
contemporary validity of classicism. Oversized and abstracted classical features, which on this building include the rusticated stone base, quoins, and pilasters, are hallmarks of the style, but also make reference to the fabric of the area’s historic buildings. The year it was built, Paul Goldberger, The New York Times architecture critic, dubbed it "among the finest postwar apartment houses on the Upper East Side." |
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links |
Special thanks to http://www.friends-ues.org |
