345 Park Avenue Building NY

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45-story 345 Park Avenue Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1967-1969). View from RCA Building looking east. July 1969.345 Park Avenue is a 634-foot (193 m) tall building in Manhattan, New York City that occupies a full city block with the front on Park Avenue, the back on Lexington Avenue, between 51st and 52nd Streets.The next banal skyscraper that completed in 1969 is the 345 Park Avenue Building. The 44-story precast-concrete and glass building was designed by Emery Roth & Sons. This building was considered banal for the architecture criticisms for two reasons: first, the construction of the building implicated the demolition of the old 23-story Beaux-Arts style Hotel Ambassador second, the new building was designed emulating many elements of the Seagram Building, overall, in the design of the plaza because really, 345 Park Avenue Building’s facade design and slab is totally different than Seagram.