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200 Central Park South

architect

Wechsler & Schimenti

location

200 Central Park South, at Seventh Ave.

date

1963

style

International Style II  

construction

Built by Bernard Spitzer  35-story tower, 21-story base  309 apartments

type

Apartment Building

 

 

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Robert A. M. Stern, Thomas Mellins and David Fishman, "New York 1960, Architecture And Urbanism Between The Second World War And The Bicentennial," (The Monacelli Press, 1995), 
"a kind of aggressive, self-referential Modernism that had hitherto been largely absent from Manhattan." "To complement the sweeping curve..., a 'plazetta' was created at the corner entrance - essentially a tiny landscaped taxi drop-off of a type virtually unknown in New York apartment house design, where corners had traditionally been filled with solid building. Shocking though the building's shape was, so reminiscent of Morris Lapidus's Fontainebleau Hotel (1954) in Miami, Florida, it had its admirers. In 1979 Paul Goldberger praised its 'swooping curve,' saying it was 'not a bad way at all for a large avenue to meet Central Park.'" 
Carter B. Horsley

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