Post to Historic Resources and COTE: Sign the Petition...https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13281-som-corporate-landmark-270-park-by-gordon-bunshaft-and-natalie-de-blois-threatened-with-demolition#Sidebar
Nobody really thought the Union Carbide Building was potentially underthreat..."You're not going to knock down a 52-story to build it up to 70."
A recent renovation of 270 Park's interiors achieved LEED Platinum rating in 2012, and, though the bank's desire for additional space was clear-it considered a move to Hudson Yards in 2014-no warning bells indicated knocking down.
From Architectural Record: 270 Park Avenue - Preservationists and architectural critics are rallying against JPMorgan Chase's announcement last week that the bank will demolish its existing 52-story Manhattan headquarters at 270 Park Avenue to build a new 2.5 million-square-foot, 70-story tower on the site.
Originally known as the Union Carbide
Building and completed in 1960, the 707-foot tower was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill under partner Gordon Bunshaft, though largely
authored by senior designer Natalie Griffin de Blois, according to the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation and other architectural historians. De Blois, once a little-known architect, is now celebrated for both her talents and her pioneering role as a woman in the profession. (The building is typically credited to Bunshaft, for whom de Blois worked.)
Crazyness - can we help NYC Preservationists and do_co_momo us - in the cause for preservation (
Docomomo responds to plans to demolish 270 Park Avenue
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Leonard Koroski FAIA
Principal - Goettsch Partners
Chicago IL
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