Carnegie Hall Tower
New York, USA

HEIGHT: 231m/757 feet
FLOORS: 60 floors
COMPLETION: 1988
ARCHITECT: Cesar Pelli with Brennen Beer Gorman Architects

The tower's highly patterned facade echoes the concert hall's orange and brown colors but also introduces a dark green banding near the top of its east setback and the crown of the tower, presumably a reference to a green mansard-style roof that is mentioned in the book, "The Landmarks of New York," published in 1988 by Harry N. Abrams Inc. The author wrote that the mansard roof was removed in 1894 "to build the crowning studio floor."

The tower's remarkably thin slab extends through the block from 57th Street to 56th Street and would be widely considered New York's most dramatic "sliver" building were it not for the fact that its west facade faces smack into the black facade of the Metropolitan Tower, which is almost as tall and the separation between the two is only about 20 feet, the width of the Russian Tea Room building nestled between them.

Harry B. Macklowe, the developer of the Metropolitan Tower, originally planned a much larger development that would have included not only his own site, but also the restaurant's and the lot on which Carnegie Hall Tower was erected. He had reached tentative agreements with Carnegie Hall about its lot, but Faith Stewart-Gordon, the owner of the restaurant, refused repeated offers from Macklowe, and later from the Elghanayan brothers who own Rockrose Development Corporation that built Carnegie Hall Tower.

As a result of her intransigence, two very tall towers, both slightly under 800 feet in height, were built rather than one that would have been more efficient and economic, with greater benefit to Carnegie Hall, as well as having made better planning sense.;)

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How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice. (as the old joke goes)
And I think Cesar did and came up with one of the nicest PoMo towers anywhere.

9.5/10
:D

that black steel cornice at the top is genious, that , along with the coloring, makes me give this one a perfect score of 10/10

6.5/10

I see a lot of thought went into its design details. But that said, it doesnt appeal to me in the aesthetic sense.

wow, nice looking one. I like it.

8/10

The building's shape and style don't really fit together, if that makes sense...

7/10

That is a nice friggin building! It's crown and window designs around the top floors is really cool. ->9.5/10

I think it should be moved to my city so it gets the attention it deserves.

I'll be there, in the hall, performing, in a matter of months! Excitement grows...

Cool Urban! What are you performing there for? Let me know when you are coming up, perhaps I could catch your performance and say hello!:D

Doesn't look good w/ NYC 7

A bit boxy for my liking, and the facade is boring, but I like how it looks so thin and tall.

7/10

"...and the facade is boring..."

Are we all looking at the same building here? This building has an awesome facade! Oh well, gotta respect everyone's opinion...

Oh...solid 9 from me.

Who wouldn't kill for a high-floor suite overlooking the park.



KGB

love it...great design & colors....pretty amazing considering the amount of land they had to deal with...it's slimness makes it soar!
overall 9/10

The colours and the shapes are great
9/10

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agree... the style seems to go with shorter buildings?

it looks so thin and tall that it could pierce the skies
a 9.5 for this one..

7/10

Not bad at all but I don't like those spikes at the top. Looks like a giant comb.

One of my favourites. Not only does it echo Carnegie Hall, but also the multitude of brick multi-level buildings spotted around the city.

Good ole 10

8/10 - Its slim form gives it good height, and the brick facade fits well with the neighboring buildings, as museumb pointed out. Also the facade has some good detailing that keeps it from being bland.

But, IMHO, the cornice is awkward and doesn't fit the rest of the building, and the same goes for the green bands - they could have been integrated into the rest of the design somehow. As it is, they look like they're just stuck on as an afterthought...Maybe if they'd made those brown horizontal bands green...

WAY TO GO, Urban Landscape!!! :D :D :D Wish I could come and hear you - May your performance be a rousing success!!!

This is a masterpiece of classic architecture in a modern version , 9/10

Having seen this building in person it is amazingly slender and tall. I give it an 8.

Oh man i also love this one.Look at how slim that tower is!Wow!

A 9.5/10

I don't really like that building, because it's sort of bland and 'dirty' looking.

However I like how it is very tall and slender.

5.5

I really like this one - 9/10

Would be ordinary but the top makes it extraordinary. I like! 8/10.

First off, thanks to Enzo for a good and thorough introduction and great pix. :okay:

Second, I think I like this place! :) 8.5

8.5 A great Pelli work... looks very old... great facade... classy

Very nice, fits into NYC very well because of its colours. It's also quite thin! I gave it a 7.5/10 but I should have given it a higher score.

7/10

7/10. Thank goodness its narrow...or else its gonna look too overbearing with tt kind of facade.

I like this building, 9/10

Originally posted by Naptown

Doesn't look good w/ NYC


Yeah, okay....

9/10 Wow this a nice slender scraper!. Pellie sure is a great archtect.

this is the ultimate box! 10

a solid 7.0

7/10 for its slenderness, but i do not like the top.

facade: ok
form: ok
points: 8

7.5/10 nice contrast with it's neighbor.

but the building itself.... it's ok

9.5/10...Another Pelli masterpiece. It's amazing how well the building blends in and fits with it's surroundings. The building really soars, is nice and simple with a nice variation of colors and facades, and the top is the icing on the cake.

A rather fatiguing architectural drill.

5/10

10/10 :cool:

7/10 Slim and tall

8/10


it looks nice.

hmm, this one has a pretty historical appeal to it, but its dark blue-green portions of the facade just doesn't match the rest of the building.

8.5

I like the richly coloured facade, the comblike top, and the little details. 8.5/10

6.5/10

8/10

7/10

love it...great design & colors....pretty amazing considering the amount of land they had to deal with...it's slimness makes it soar!
overall 9/10


Cityspire next door is pretty awesome too!

The slim side is quite interesting, and it has plenty of 'soar' factor. I'm not overly impressed with the colour and facade though.

Not bad, but not particularly good, either. I'd give it a fairly mediocre 6.5

Ok now everything about this one is boring except it's height. I hate it's roof the most but it's whole desighn and colour comes very close. So it's simply very ugly to me and just has to fall into my most hated skyscraper catagory and only gets points for height. 3/10

I don't like the colours which were used to cheer up this boring façade.

6/10

8.5

definately not my taste. hate the roof :(

5/10

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Quite nice actually, 7.5/10

6/10 not too fat

Nice, but the facade mixing could have been much better. So could the crown. I give it a 7/10.

One of the best in NY!
I love this building! 10/10

So narrow..... :runaway:

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Is that a very small building in the middle?! :eek:

6.5 for me...

Oh, Russian Tea Room.... :D

Looks so strange, sandwiched in the middle of two giants... :runaway:
Hope the interior would be preserved....

Amazing building. And incredibly slim :D 9/10

8/10

Fantastic. Sleek with an amazing facade. 10.

8/10

It's too slim however I like the old style of the tower.

7/10.

7/10

Superslimtallgreat tower! 9.5/10

8/10

8/10

7/10 i don´t like it

9/10. Very nice high-rise. Great style.

Great building. One of the best in a city where great buildings are on every block 9.0

Non sure whether I like it but it sure is different.

7

6/10

7,5/10

That's one building that merges very very well with its podium and has a credible retro look without being overloaded. Its slender shape is very distinctive. Very good.
8.5

7.5/10

8/10

5,5/10

Thin and decent looking
8/10

9.5/10 one of my favorites. Beautiful colors, layout, and the crown is rockin. Super tall and thin. If it stood by itself it would look more spectacular and get that 10

Nice colours. 8.5/10.

I love the slimness of this tower, and how it's right across from the Metropolitan Tower. 8/10

7/10

7/10.

5/10

very appealing tower. The colour scheme is great and I like the details and the top.

9/10

1988? This thing looks early 20th century to me. I love it, so slim.

8/10

8/10

4/10

7/10

One of New York's greatest skyscrapers, one of my favourites... 10/10

the facade is not my taste, 8/10

5.5/10

8/10

7/10

Hard one to judge from photos would like to see the building for myself 7/10

5/10

6.5 / 10

7. :)

7/10 ugly colors

i think i like it. 8/10

6/10

7/10

Naah. A 6 out of 10.

One of my favorite highrises in Manhattan. 9/10

8/10.

UN 10 para el capo de cesar.... I love it...

9/10 one of my favorites

Too ugly, 0/10

6/10

7/10

sorry, but that is hideous! 3/10 :ohno:

I love it! 10/10

Nice residential.
8/10

Looks like an old 1930s office building converted to hotel use in 1991 (when the tower was born). 7.5/10

7/10

6/10

8/10

elegant 9.5/10

9/10

6/10

5/10

8/10

8/10 :cheers:

Hideous. Dark and forbidding.

6/10

wow, nice looking one. I like it. luv nyc!

6 :)

6/10

What a shape!!!

9/10

Original, but I don't want to know, what winds are between buildings. After all it is dangerous!

8/10

7.5

8/10 I love that style. :)

9/10

8/10

6/10

8/10

7.5/10
NYC Rocks

9/10

8/10

The facade is great and looks very nice from street level...

7.5/10

too bland- 6/10

9/10

7/10.

8. Good building. Regards.

8/10

9/10

voted 8/10 I like it slim and sleek and the view is very nice!

9/10

Beautiful. One of my favorite non-supertalls of all time.

An incomprehensible jumble of ersatz styling and late-modernist banality. 6

7.5/10

8.5

7.5/10

6/10 just blah

10/10!!




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Interesting and recognizable. 9/10

7/10 Like how thin it is

7/10 Like how thin it is... from the side...

6/10

7/10

Tall and wide box, 6.5/10

7/10

7/10

7/10

8/10, because it is interesting more than anything else

8.5/10

8/10

7.5/10

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10/10

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10/10

7/10

6,5/10 Fortunately that the exterior looks good.

8/10 rated

7/10

I think this one is awesome! 8.5/10

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8/10

8/10