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| skyscrapers in new york city | |
| skyscrapers between 150 and 199 meters | |
| buildings and structures in manhattan | |
| 1985 architecture | |
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While nowhere near as illustrious as its neighbours at Rockefeller Center it is of principle architectural note because it provides an elegant solution to the problem of an irregular building lot. In this case the lot is fronted on both 48th Street & 49th Street between 5th Avenue & Madison Avenue . The street frontages were offset by about the width of a NYC Brownstone lot on both sides. To answer this design challenge the firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP came up with a simple crystaline form of two chamfer-cornered masses joined by the central service core wrapped in blue-tinted mirror glass. There are several buildings in the city with similarly irregular lots but this one shines because it looks like a design that didn't made comprimises to the lot. Tenants include the players association for Major League Baseball . Tower 49® is one of the few buildings to have an "®" as part of it's official name. Data: Structural Height - 187m - 614 ft Floors above ground 45 Construction completed 1985 EXTERNAL LINKS |
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