Citicorp Center | Favorite Architecture
Citicorp Center can refer to several skyscrapers named after banking conglomerate Citigroup
- Citigroup Center (San Francisco), formerly Citicorp Center
- Citigroup Center (Chicago), formerly Citicorp Center
- Citigroup Center, formerly Citicorp Center, in New York City
- Citicorp Centre in Hong Kong.
- Citicorp Plaza (so names upon its opening in 1991), Los Angeles, now named 777 Tower,More info:wiki
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#10 Former Citicorp Center is now NYC’s youngest landmark building,More info:ny.curbed
Two weeks ago, the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously to designate 11 historic buildings in Midtown East as city landmarks. Now, yet another building within the neighborhood has been given landmark status.
The former Citicorp Center, now known simply as 601 Lexington Avenue, is the latest site within Midtown East to get protected, bringing the total number of individual landmarks in the area to 50.
“The Citicorp Tower’s distinctive features make it one of the most recognizable skyscrapers in New York City,” LPC chair Meenakshi Srinivasan said in a statement. “Today we ensured that future generations will enjoy this irreplaceable part of our skyline.”
#9 Former Citicorp Center At 601 Lexington Avenue Designated A City Landmark,More info:newyorkyimby
Two weeks ago, the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated 11 of its 12 calendared properties in Midtown East as city landmarks, part of its Greater East Midtown Initiative. On Tuesday, the twelfth site received its designation, as the LPC declared the former Citicorp Center, now known as 601 Lexington Avenue, a city landmark.
Located between East 53rd and 54th streets, 601 Lexington Avenue includes the 59-story, 915-foot-tall office building, a six-story retail building, and St. Peter’s Lutheran Church. The design was by Hugh Stubbins & Associates, with Emery Roth & Sons.
It is the only item on the Greater East Midtown Initiative from the post-Grand Central Terminal era, and was constructed between 1973 and 1978. At the time, Ada Louise Huxtable called it a “suave blockbuster” and Paul Goldberger saw it as a “remarkably intelligent synthesis of a number of architectural themes.”
#8 St. Peter’s Church and Citicorp Center, East Midtown, NYC,More info:midcenturymundane.wordpress
This site represents one of the many “holdout” stories that dot New York City’s architectural landscape, albeit with a twist. Here, St. Peter’s Church agreed to sell their existing 1903 building for the development of a new Citicorp headquarters, but as they could not find another site they wanted in Midtown, the decision was made to build a new church in the same location with a massive skyscraper cantilevered over it. Hugh Stubbins and Associates, a Cambridge-based firm, (recently featured), designed the complex in association with Emery Roth & Sons. According to Robert A. M. Stern’s New York 1960, which has a section on the Citicorp project, Edward Larrabee Barnes was also affiliated with the project as an adviser to the church.
#7 Landmarks cites nonexistent permits for iconic Citicorp Center plaza,More info:archpaper
Last month the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) sidestepped a crucial discussion of a developer’s plans to overhaul a plaza at the Citicorp Center (now 601 Lexington Avenue), citing permits that were, in fact, never issued (Update 5/8/17: see note at bottom).
The opaque and irregular approvals process for these renovations—detailed below—deprived the public of the opportunity to weigh in on highly visible changes to the landmarked Citicorp Center, one New York’s most essential late modern buildings.
Those changes especially impact a plaza and fountain by Sasaki Associates, one of the firm’s only surviving works in New York.
In March The Architect’s Newspaper reported on the planned changes to the building, one of the city’s newest landmarks. The 59-story tower, designed by Hugh A. Stubbins & Associates in 1977, commands a busy corner in East Midtown, Manhattan. The landmark designation includes three interrelated structures—a 59-story, 915-foot-tall office tower on the western portion of the site, a six-story mixed-use structure nestled into the main tower, and St. Peter’s Lutheran Church of Manhattan—all connected by a series of indoor and outdoor spaces that are privately owned but open to the public.
At the Midtown East building, though, proposed changes to those spaces—known to city planners as POPS—have attracted attention.
#6 Citigroup Center (HD),More info:SkylinesHD
#5 27 New York City Roosevelt Island Manhattan With River House, Citicorp Center, River Tower, Black 919 Third Avenue, St James Tower,More info:mountainsoftravelphotos
#4 Renderings revealed for former Citicorp Center’s proposed new ‘Market Building’,More info:6sqft
#3 07 New York City Roosevelt Island Tramway Looking Back At Citicorp Center, One Beacon Court, 750 Lexington Avenue, The Savoy at 200 East 61 St and Evans View With The Red Roof at 303 East 60,More info:mountainsoftravelphotos
#2 Architrivia: Citigroup Center Crisis,More info:skyrisecities
In the course of our daily reporting, we often uncover unusual projects, places, or connections that don’t make the final cut. Instead of keeping it to ourselves, we’re pleased to share our weekly architrivia.
The Citigroup Center’s unique geometric features make it a standout skyscraper on the New York City skyline. Its 45-degree roofline and innovative stilt-style base are the 59-storey building’s most notable architectural elements. Yet the tower’s distinctive design was also nearly its downfall.
During the design stages, structural engineer William LeMessurier only calculated potential wind load on the building from due north, south, east and west. Focusing only on wind blowing directly against the building’s flat faces, he neglected the effect that quartering winds — from the northwest, northeast, southwest and southeast — would have against any of the building’s four corners. The question of wind loads was raised by a civil engineering student at Princeton University in 1978, which prompted swift recalculations that included quartering winds. The resulting examinations presented a scary situation.
#1 Citigroup Center,More info:wikiwand
The Citigroup Center (formerly Citicorp Center and also known by its address, 601 Lexington Avenue) is an office skyscraper in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Built in 1977 to house the headquarters of Citibank, it is 915 feet (279 m) tall and has 59 floors with 1.3 million square feet (120,000 m2) of office space. The building was designed by architect Hugh Stubbins, associate architect Emery Roth & Sons, and structural engineer William LeMessurier.
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