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Built in 1982 as one of the crown jewels of the Tishman Speyer real estate empire, 520 Madison Avenue epitomizes the idea of a tasteful and comfortable contemporary office building. The address of the building is somewhat misleading, as the actual entrances are located on 53rd Street and 54th... more

The Clocktower currently serves as a federal office building. It houses numerous federal institutions that are too boring to list. However, the Clocktower also has a more dynamic and interesting history. In the 70’s, PS1 director Alanna Heiss decided to open her first alternative art space in... more

An accomplished expression of the ideals of the midcentury-hegemonic International Style, and the most expensive office building ever constructed at the time of its opening, the Seagram building is all the more remarkable for having been designed co-operatively by two acclaimed architects, American... more

The most accomplished structure to be built in midtown Manhattan's post-9/11 building boom, the Hearst Tower, designed by Norman Foster, is a stunning, irregularly-shaped glass-and-steel high-rise built on top of the original, six-story stone corporate headquarters. That building was designed to... more

The first major New York project by starchitect du jour Frank Gehry (who had previously designed the renowned Conde Naste cafeteria and the Issey Miyake flagship store in the city), the IAC Building has been called an ethereal corporate headquarters, widely praised by architecture critics and lay... more

An exemplary super-modern mixed-use skyscraper of the type pioneered and perfected in the less developed but more rapidly developing world, the Time Warner Center isn't the kind of building New Yorkers tend to view positively, and yet they have embraced it not just for its practical value but its... more