80 Fifth Avenue
Posted on March 28, 2014 by — No Comments
80 Fifth Avenue’s lavishly detailed thirteen-story Classical shaft sits atop an arresting three-story base of interlocking bay windows. The uppermost floors are particularly noteworthy, incorporating giant two-story arches that gather pedimented windows into trios in the manner of the Chicago School of architecture as practiced by 19th Century architect Louis Sullivan and others.
Unfortunately, the first two floors have seen unsympathetic tampering. There is a great deal more of that to come…