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Citicorp Center is the most famous work of noted American architect Hugh Stubbins. The top of the tower slopes 45 degrees and was going to be fitted with solar panels but never was. The aluminum and glass building has a sun-filled, multi-story atrium. The building won an AIA Honor Award in 1978, and Hugh Stubbins and Associates won the Architecture Firm Award in 1967.
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Comments (4)
This building stood a good chance of falling over until a flaw in its design was uncovered and repaired. Still one of my favourites.
Funny but I recall visiting in the 80s and seeing a display in the atrium showing how much power they were getting from a solar array on the roof.
Posted by Olive Thomas | February 10, 2007 8:58 PM
Posted on February 10, 2007 20:58
In the history of mankind there has never been such an array of legal releases concocted as by the firm which had to clean up the structural problems of this building. They simply didn't want to be liable. However, I enjoy looking at it.
Posted by suits_me | February 12, 2007 4:36 AM
Posted on February 12, 2007 04:36
I don't know what it is about this building, but being that it's relatively young it seems really dated to me. Though built in the 70's, it looks like the 80's to me, so I guess it was ahead of it's time for a couple of years, but now it just looks as current as women's shoulder pads.
Good for the architects for making one of the first attempts to break out of the glass box mold. Since then, the architecture's escape from it's rectangular prison has been so much more daring that topping the building with a right triangle seems dull. Maybe that's why it looks dated. It was daring until something more daring came along, then it just became a modified glass block.
Oh, yeah. And it's ugly.
Yet another place where the Space Needle, any number of Detroit buildings or the Hopi ruins could have gone.
I guess New York just wasn't represented enough.
Posted by Craig Johnson | March 16, 2007 12:54 PM
Posted on March 16, 2007 12:54
There used to be a church on the first floor of the building. Is it still there?
Posted by Steven F. | March 24, 2007 8:18 PM
Posted on March 24, 2007 20:18