101 Park Avenue

[emmeka]

101 Park Avenue,

As one of my personal favorites, I feel like discussing it. As far as i am aware there is no topic about it already so here is something to get the conversations starting;

http://apps.ubs.com/locatlonfinder/viewimage?keylD=1555

[chris]

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That image above is coming in as a broken link for me.

Here are two more photos...

http://www.c-grayson.com/posted_temp/101_Park_Ave_1_looking_N.jpg

http://www.c-grayson.com/images/photo/pho_03_up_park.jpg

101 Park Avenue was Eli Attia's first independant commission.

Here is a planimetric analysis:

http://www.c-grayson.com/posted_temp/sketch2.gif

He went off on his own after working with Philip Johnson for most of the 70s. His last building with Johnson/Burgee Architects was Chief of Design of the Pennzoil Towers in Houston:

http://www.c-grayson.com/posted_temp/pennzoil.jpg


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There are three Attia Towers in Manhattan:

101 Park Avenue
HSBC Building
Downtown Millenium Hotel

Most of his recent work is in Tel Aviv.



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[BrooklynRider]

I really like this building. I always thought its location somehow detracted from it. If it were on Park Avenue north of Grand Central, I think it would get a lot more attention (and maybe a better setting).

[Gulcrapek]

I really like it. A building that gives thought to its tenants (designed for maxiumum light exposure) and comes out well on the outside too.

[Eugenius]

I believe this building was the setting for Gremlins 2. I think its location is actually quite advantageous. It's only a few blocks away from Grand Central, and is easily reachable by the 6 and 7 trains.

[dbhstockton]

I like the plaza in front of it; I ate lunch there when I temped in a nearby building. It's probably the best plaza in the immediate area, though the building doesn't do much for me. It's just not an important building.

Its form is in dialogue with the Pan-Am/Met-Life bldg, which is kind of interesting. It makes the Pan-Am/Met-Life bldg look noble in comparison.

Maybe I just have a grudge against Attia -- see the WTC developments thread.

[emmeka]

The building also starred in the Entrapment at the very beginning, catherine zeta-jones absailed down it and removed a pane of glass.

Although the film falsley led people to belive that it had 70 floors, which of course is a lie. it has 50.

I havent got a single complaint about the building, I love everythinh about it and I think it should be more widely recognised.

[TLOZ Link5]

Actually, I believe that that building was supposed to have had 90 floors in The Entrapment. Catherine Zeta-Jones's character descended 70 stories from the top to a 20th-floor office.

Oh, if only...

[emmeka]

i know what you mean, It would be great if it was taller but apart from that i cant find a fault.

Must have some good veiws, eh?

[Jack Ryan]

Catherine Zeta-Jones would make the view from the sub-basement look spectacular.

[Zoe]

The views are not bad at all. I work right up the street from this building and have been in it a number of times. It used to have a place called City Foods on the north-west corner of the building (one block from Grand Central). That place had everything, but it recently closed about a month ago. Lunch in the front of the building is a popular place as dbstockton mentioned.
I like the shape of this building, there are not enough buildings in the city that break from the basic box shape.

[emmeka]

I like its sharpness and the fact that when it was built it was ahead of its time because if it had a lighter facade it could be mistaken for a 2001-3 building.

[JonY]

101 Park Avenue.

49 levels above ground @ the height of 630ft / 192m.

Contsruction was completed in 1982.

It was also used in a scene in the movie "Gremlins 2"

http://www.greatgridlock.net/NYC_Images/036.jpg

[emmeka]

Its yummy!