The Lipstick Building on 53rd Street and 3rd Avenue in midtown, received its name from the shape of the structure, which looks like a tube of lipstick and the red band between each floor, the color of lipstick. The majority tenant in the building is a law office.It was designed by famed American architects, Richard Burgee and Philip Johnson and opened in 1986. The building has three levels with each level being smaller than the preceding ones. It rises 34 floors high and is 453 feet (138 meters) tall.
Philip Johnson's other notable work includes the Glass House in New Canaan, CT and the Seagram Builiding in New York City. The Seagram Building is a collaboration with Mies van der Rohe, another prolific and well known architect.
4 comments:
That's a very cool building! An office with a window must be pretty nice.
Cool photo of a cool building!
I'm not a big fan of buildings erected around the 70s and 80s but this is an exception. I wish I could capture the red band around each floor but there wasn't enough light. This is one of the most original and spectacular buildings in NYC.
cool shape!!
:))
and its name is funny, lipstick ~~
so huge, isnt it??
hee hee...
jing
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