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    City’s Newest Landmark also its Youngest

    Designation  •  East Midtown, Manhattan
    United Nations Hotel

    United Nations Hotel

    Late 1970s and early 1980s hotel interiors are a rare preserved exemplar of late Modern and early Postmodern design. Landmarks voted to designate as an interior City landmark the hotel lobby and Ambassador Grill of the United Nations Hotel at its meeting on January 17, 2017. The hotel, at 1 United Nations Plaza was built as part of a larger complex by the United Nations Development Corporation. The two interior spaces were completed seven years apart− the Grill in 1976 and the lobby area in 1983. (read more…)

    Tags : Chair Meenakshi Srinivasan, Commissioner Fred Bland, Robert A.M. Stern, United Nations Plaza Hotel
    Date:01/31/2017
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    Work Associated with Residential Conversion of 1 Wall Street Approved

    Certificate of Appropriateness  •  Lower Manhattan, Manhattan
    Rendering of 1 Wall Street proposal. Image credit: Macklowe Properties/Robert A.M. Stern Architects/SLCE Architects

    Rendering of 1 Wall Street proposal. Image credit: Macklowe Properties/Robert A.M. Stern Architects/SLCE Architects

    Robert A. M. Sterne-designed project would see the addition of several stories to an un-designated annex, and the creation of two additional window bays on south facade, among other work. On January 19, 2016, the Landmarks Preservation Commission considered a proposal for alterations to the individually landmarked 1 Wall Street Building. The 1931, 50-story, Art Deco skyscraper in Lower Manhattan was built as an office tower by the Irving Trust Company to designs by architect Ralph Walker. An annex to the building was constructed in the 1960s, and is not part of the landmarked site. The current owners, Macklowe Properties, intend to convert the building to residential use, with ground-floor retail. (read more…)

    Tags : Adi Shamir-Baron, Christabel Gough, Commissioner Michael Devonshire, Commissioner Michael Goldblum, Hernan Chebar, Historic Districts Council, Kelly Carroll, Macklowe Properties, Manhattan Community Board 1, Meenakshi Srinivasan, Robert A.M. Stern, The Society for the Architecture of the City
    Date:01/29/2016
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    50th Anniversary of Landmarks Law Marked with Exhibit and Symposium

    The Museum of the City of New York  •  Citywide
    Saving Place Exhibit. Image Credit: Museum of the City of New York.

    Saving Place Exhibit. Image Credit: Museum of the City of New York.

    Sometimes-contentious debate focused on the struggle to balance new development with historic preservation in New York City. On the evening of April 20, 2015, the Museum of the City of New York commenced a series of events and exhibitions commemorating the 50th anniversary of the City’s Landmarks Law with a symposium titled “Redefining Preservation for the 21st Century.” The Saving Place exhibit, intends to examine the “impact of a landmark preservation movement that has transformed the City and has been an engine of New York’s growth and success.” The exhibit is curated by the Museum’s Donald Albrecht and Columbia’s Andrew Dolkart, with Seri Worden, of the James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation, serving as consulting curator. The Symposium took place at the New York Academy of Medicine’s Hosack Hall. (read more…)

    Tags : Adele Chatfield-Taylor, Alicia Glen, Bedford Stuyvesant Society for Historic Preservation, Claudette Brady, Henshaw Jones, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Meenakshi Srinivasan, Michael Kimmelman, REBNY, Robert A.M. Stern, SHoP Architects, Steven Spinola, Vishaan Chakrabarti
    Date:05/08/2015
    Category : Landmarks Law
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