Tower 49

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Tower 49
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Tower 49 - Looking southwesterly from Madison Avenue & 49th Street
Tower 49
General information
StatusCompleted
TypeOffice
Architectural style Modern
Address8-18 East 49th Street
Town or city Midtown Manhattan, New York City
Country United States
Coordinates 40°45′26″N73°58′37″W / 40.75722°N 73.97694°W / 40.75722; -73.97694
Completed1985
Height614 feet (187 m)
Technical details
Floor count45
Design and construction
Architect(s) Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Website
http://tower49gallery.com/
References
[1]

Tower 49 is an office skyscraper in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. The lot has frontage on both 48th and 49th Streets between Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue. [2] The street frontages were offset by about the width of an NYC brownstone lot on both sides. [3]

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The firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill devised a "simple crystalline form" of two chamfer-cornered masses joined by the central service core and wrapped in blue-tinted mirror glass. [4]

Tenants include the Major League Baseball Players Association and Axis Communications. Tower 49 is one of the few buildings to have a registered trademark symbol as part of its official name.

Tower 49 Gallery collaborates with artists on long term exhibitions and will typically invite a curator to organize and write the catalog essay for the exhibition. The concept of the gallery is to give the public a chance to enjoy art, and to display artworks in a space where people are living and working. During the year 2002 Tower 49 displayed 5 large paintings in the lobby by the New York artist Ronnie Landfield. [5]

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References

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