“The remarkable interior
space of the 75-ft.-high North Lobby is impaired by a conflict of many
vacillating, unrelated ideas.
Among these disparate elements are the functional rationalism of an
uncovered structural ceiling, the romanticism of curved, flying balconies
reached by a geometric ramp supported on a self-consciously exposed arched
steel beam, and a theatrically decorative facing wall with vertical panels of
photo-sensitive patterned glass and gilded air-conditioning ducts. The completed group of buildings,
however, does succeed in suggesting one of the most important potentials of
modern architecture: the effective juxtaposition of abstract, three-dimensional
forms – here a horizontal, organic shape and a geometric, vertical slab – in a
composition of unique dramatic contrast.”
- “Four Walking Tours of Modern Architecture in New
York City,” The Museum of Moern Art and the Municipal Art Society of New York,
Prepared by Ada Louise Huxtable; Distributed by Doubleday & Company, Inc.,
Third Printing 1966.
Image courtesy un.org.
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