Walker Tower – Room at the Top
On behalf of Landmark Branding LLC and nAscent Art New York, we’re pleased to say that our recent installment of “Room at the Top” was an amazing evening! Over 40 real estate and arts & culture professionals gathered at Walker Tower for a completely booked private tour of the beautiful residential conversion of one of… Continue reading
509 Fifth Avenue
509 Fifth Avenue was designed in 1917 by author and architect Herman Lee Meader, one of New York’s most eccentric and original architects. An early admirer of Mayan, Aztec and Native American aesthetic and archeological forms, Meader incorporated them into a series of buildings such as The Cliff Dwelling (243 Riverside Drive) and the B…. Continue reading
505 Fifth Avenue
505 Fifth Avenue is a pleasant neo-constructivist confection by industry standards Kohn Pederson Fox. The lobby incorporates a site-specific program by the artist James Turrell that includes a forced-perspective neon light box. Floor-to-ceiling glass cladding gives the interiors arresting views of the New York Public Library and Bryant Park.
500 Fifth Avenue
A vertiginous stack of telescoping setbacks, 500 Fifth Avenue was designed in 1929 by Shreve, Lamb and Harmon, better known for the Empire State Building at 34th Street and Fifth. As a work of purely abstract massing, 500 Fifth Avenue may be the superior design, although it is certainly helped by the removal of a… Continue reading
Midtown – 42nd Street to 57th Street
Midtown Manhattan is defined in numerous ways, with some putting the lower borders of the district at 34th Street and others at 23rd Street. In addition, the terms Midtown East and Midtown West are used to differentiate between zones to the east and west of Fifth Avenue itself, while the New York City Police Department… Continue reading