The highest-priced new apartment building in the history of New York isn’t a sleek, one-of-a-kind glass tower. It’s architect Robert A. M. Stern’s 15 Central Park West, an ingenious homage to the classic Candela-designed apartment buildings on Park and Fifth Avenues. From the marble-columned lobby to the wine cellar and pool, the author examines the art, as well as the limits, of Stern’s grand nostalgia. By Paul Goldberger for Vanity Fair
Set at the southwest corner of Central Park, 15 Central Park West (far left) was built on the most expensive site per square foot in Manhattan.
Architect Robert A. M. Stern stands on the concierge desk at 15 Central Park West.
Developers William Lie Zeckendorf and Arthur Zeckendorf under the arches on the balcony of the top-floor penthouse.
The exterior of 15 Central Park West was covered with more than 85,000 pieces of limestone, which cost millions of dollars more than standard brick.
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being in nyit, we were able to watch everything from the demolition of the existing building, to the construction of the new one during studio over the past three years.
That's a great photograph of the developers.
The line in the article about one tenant being angry with the way electrical plates don't line up is totally valid and franky shocking; I've seen some crummy electrical work in my time but one would hope the electricians working on a place of this caliber would take the time to carry a torpedo level in their pouch!
i think bob stern's pose and costume is priceless. these are very 'in' people! 80's are back with vengeance.
next movement is pomo mixed with arabesque.
whenever economy goes bad, money shots become common place. people made to think that things must not be all that bad.
It kinda looks like that desk swallowed another desk. No?
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