Tower 49

Tower 49
Tower 49 - Looking southwesterly from Madison Avenue & 49th Street
General information
Status Complete
Type Office
Architectural style Modern
Address 8-18 East 49th Street
Town or city Midtown Manhattan, New York City, New York
Country United States
Coordinates 40°45′26″N 73°58′37″W / 40.75722°N 73.97694°W / 40.75722; -73.97694Coordinates: 40°45′26″N 73°58′37″W / 40.75722°N 73.97694°W / 40.75722; -73.97694
Completed 1985
Height 614 feet (187 m)
Technical details
Floor count 45 above ground
Design and construction
Architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM)
Website
http://tower49gallery.com/
References
[1]

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]

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.

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.

Exhibitions

  • 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

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Tower 49". Emporis. Retrieved 20 May 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 20 May 2017.
  3. ↑ "Tower 49, 7 East 48 Street Office Space Rental NY". Real Estate Sales NYC. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
  4. ↑ P., Mads. "Tower 49". 3D Warehouse. Retrieved 20 May 2017.


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