Tower 49

Tower 49 is an office skyscraper in the Midtown Manhattan district of New York City. The lot is fronted on both 48th Street and 49th Street between 5th Avenue and Madison Avenue.[2] The street frontages were offset by about the width of an NYC brownstone lot on both sides.[3]

Tower 49
Tower 49 - Looking southwesterly from Madison Avenue & 49th Street
General information
StatusComplete
TypeOffice
Architectural styleModern
Address8-18 East 49th Street
Town or cityMidtown Manhattan, New York City, New York
CountryUnited States
Coordinates40°45′26″N 73°58′37″W
Completed1985
Height614 feet (187 m)
Technical details
Floor count45 above ground
Design and construction
ArchitectSkidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM)
Website
http://tower49gallery.com/
References
[1]

To address this design challenge, the firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill came up with 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 Inbox Insight. Tower 49 is one of the few buildings to have a registered trademark symbol as part of its official name. It is tied with four other buildings, the New York Life Building, 919 Third Avenue, 750 7th Avenue, and The Epic in its position as the 118th tallest building in New York

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]

Exhibitions
  • Ronnie Landfield, January 2002 – December 2002 [6]
  • Jules Olitski, July 2013 – July 2014
  • Natvar Bhavsar Rang Rasa, October 7, 2014 – March 12, 2015 | Catalog Essay by Carter Ratcliff
  • The Bennington Legacy: Willard Boepple, Isaac Witkin and James Wolfe, April 30 – October 29, 2015 | Co-Curated by Karen Wilkin and Ai Kato
  • Big Redux: Friedel Dzubas, November 9, 2015 – April 9, 2016 | Catalog Essay by Patrica Lewy
  • Free Fall by Cordy Ryman, May 2017 – April 2018 | Catalog Essay by Thomas Micchelli Co-curated by Thomas Micchelli and Ai Kato
  • Strategic Misbehavior by Michele Oka Doner, April 2018 – May 2019 | Catalog Essay by Deborah Rothschild
  • Inside Out by Enrico Isamu Oyama, May 2019 – August 2020 | Catalog Essay by Eric Shiner
  • Tower 49 - Looking northeasterly from 5th Avenue & 48th Street
  • Tower 49 - Looking southeasterly from 5th Avenue & 49th Street
  • Tower 49 - 49th Street Entrance
  • Tower 49 - Looking eastward from Rockefeller Center
  • Tower 49 - Closer view from Rockefeller Center
  • The Squibb Building - A typical design for an irregular lot in NYC.

See also

References
  1. "Tower 49". Emporis. Retrieved May 20, 2017.
  2. "Tower 49 at 7 East 48 Street Office Space Rental New York NY - Real Estate Sales NYC, Hotel Multifamily Buildings for sale". www.realestatesalesnyc.com. Retrieved May 20, 2017.
  3. "Tower 49, 7 East 48 Street Office Space Rental NY". Real Estate Sales NYC. Retrieved March 13, 2013.
  4. P., Mads. "Tower 49". 3D Warehouse. Retrieved May 20, 2017.
  5. Of Abstracts and William Blake
  6. Of Abstracts and William Blake
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