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LENTZ, LINDA C.
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STONE , *ARCHITECTURAL design , *LOCKER rooms , *CONFERENCE rooms , *AUTOMOBILE showrooms , *REAL property , *SKYSCRAPERS - Abstract
They also drew from the lobby's verticality and patterns, fluting the travertine for wainscoting that mimics its marble grills and borrowing the polygonal forms on its ceiling and floors to shape custom tables and rugs. BUILDING TYPE STUDY 1,056 RECORD INTERIORS RISING 50 STORIES above New York's Fifth Avenue, opposite the Plaza Hotel and Central Park, the 1968 General Motors Building, designed by Edward Durell Stone, was notably controversial when it was built, causing the demolition of McKim, Mead & White's Savoy- Plaza Hotel (1927) and interrupting a graceful cluster of early 20thcentury chateau-style structures with a modern steel-and-glass skyscraper (one that would house an automobile showroom) clad in faceted white stone. "We really wanted to bring the monumental tone-on-tone materiality of his lobby up to the second floor, but with a warmer, more enveloping color palette amenable to a hospitality setting", says Garrett Rock, lead designer. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2023