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It has a cool plan that its architect, Costas Kondylis, maintains "recalls the bow of a great ship interpreted all in glass (read more)

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The Plaza Hotel was designed by Henry J. Hardenbergh, the architect who designed the Dakota apartment building at 1 West 72nd Street. It opened in 1907. In 1921, Warren & Wetmore designed an expansion on 58th Street.

The hotel's exterior was (read more)

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The McGraw-Hill Building was not the tallest of this group but it was then the furthest west and its green façade and horizontal (read more)

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A 38-story tower in mid-block at 393 East 49th Street faces on a very attractive plaza that separates it from the 50-story office building at 825 Eighth Avenue, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, that has an illuminated crown and is (read more)

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The hotel, which was designed by Frank Grad, was originally called the Park Tower and then the Seville Towers.

In (read more)

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The buildings are separated by the Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde Club building, one of the city’s most fanciful with a façade populated by skeletons and a (read more)

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When it was erected, this very big apartment tower was in something of a no-man's land. (read more)

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It includes a public galleria, 8 floors of offices, a health club and 47 floors of condominium apartments in a package that is as dramatic and elegant at its base as it is awkward and strange at its top.

Many of the (read more)

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When this mixed-use building was erected in 1968, this stretch of Seventh (read more)

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The developer’s other major residential projects include Morton Square on West Street in the West Village and the Cielo on 83rd Street at York Avenue.

The façade (read more)

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The beige-brick, mid-block tower has a canopied entrance and a dark glass greenhouse entrance with a doorman and a concierge. It has lush, spiked sidewalk landscaping, many balconies, a (read more)

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It was designed by Helmut Jahn of Murphy/Jahn, the Chicago-based architect. and its slender pinnacle is reminiscent of one of that city's older skyscrapers. Jahn is best known for his high-tech designs, but this was one of his forays into Post-Modernism, at (read more)

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This short block between Madison and Park Avenues has four distinctive towers and this is the most exquisite of the lot.

It is a mixed-use tower that was designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox, one of the world's leading architects of commercial buildings. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill handled the interiors. (read more)

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The two demolished theaters were just to the south of Cinema 1 and Cinema II, mid-block theaters that still survive.

In their excellent book, "The A.I.A. Guide to New (read more)

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By New York standards, it is spectacular and epitomizes many popular visions of successful "lifestyles."

As brash developer Donald J. Trump's "signature" project, this is surprisingly subdued and architecturally has gotten somewhat of a bum rap. Equitable Life Assurance Society of The United States was the co-developer.

As bronze-colored glass towers go, (read more)

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Architect Cesar Pelli's 1985 reconstruction of the museum to accommodate the new high-rise condominium apartment tower to the west incorporated a major expansion and redesign of the museum. The mixed-use expansion worked quite well visually (read more)

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For several decades, El Morocco and the Stork Club were the most elegant and exclusive nightclubs in the city in the pre-disco era.

This 32-story tower was designed by Peter Claman of (read more)

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To many Westerners, Sung Dynasty pottery is too simplified and understated, but to many Chinese eyes the restraint and subtlety is rarefied refinement. Some connoisseurs take special pleasure in the exquisite patterning of minuscule crackling, an influence, no doubt, of their fascination and love (read more)

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On 57th Street between Third and Second Avenues, there was new construction on both sides of the street: two new, mid-block, luxury residential condominium buildings.

Sutton 57 at 212 East 57th Street was the more modest and sedate of the two: a (read more)

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It is one of the few aluminum-clad towers in the city. Whereas some of the others are office buildings with patterned panels, this tower's "skin" is plain and its color does not belie its metallic nature. The color, in fact, is (read more)

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The mid-block building has a 16-foot-high lobby, central air-conditioning and heating and apartments have ceilings that range in height from 10 to 16 feet and many have cast-iron columns and some have skylights and terraces. The apartments also have large, double-hung thermal windows, (read more)

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Designed by Cesar Pelli & Associates, the architect of the World Financial Center at Battery Park City and the Museum Tower on West 54th Street, it is a gleaming, full-block redevelopment of the former site of the Alexander's store, a five-story, marble-clad structure (read more)

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Its clean-cut, modern lines, incised windows and asymmetrical massing have been highly influential and the building is a rare example of a contextual design that complements a (read more)

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Columbus Circle, it has never quite become the city's (read more)

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The lower 32 floors are occupied by a Marriott Residence Inn, an "extended-stay hotel" that was the chain's first in the city. The hotel entrance (read more)

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