Apple launched its second New York retail location in 2006 in the lower-level concourse of the General Motors Building, which is also home to FAO Schwartz, on Fifth Avenue. The 20,000-square foot location, is the first to operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and features a distinctive 32-foot glass cube entrance.
In 2007, The Apple Store 5th Avenue was ranked #53 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.
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Apple launched its second New York retail location in 2006 in the lower-level concourse of the General Motors Building, which is also home to FAO Schwartz, on Fifth Avenue. The 20,000-square foot location, is the first to operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and features a distinctive 32-foot glass cube entrance.
In 2007, The Apple Store 5th Avenue was ranked #53 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.
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The Citigroup Center, formerly Citicorp Center, located at 601 Lexington Avenue between 53rd Street and 54th Street is a 59-floor, 915-foot skyscraper and one of the most distinctive and imposing in New York's skyline, with a 45° angled top and a unique stilt-style base. Designed by Hugh Stubbins Jr. and completed in 1977, it contains 1.3 million square feet of office space.
To help stabilize the building, a tuned mass damper was placed in the mechanical space at its top. This substantial piece of stabilizing equipment weighs 400 tons (350 metric tons) and has a volume of 255 cubic feet (7 m³). Designed to counterbalance the effects of wind by making the building sway, it is a concrete block that slides on a thick layer of oil and converts the kinetic energy of the building into friction. This mass reduces the building's movement from wind deflection by 50%. Citigroup Center was the first skyscraper in the United States to feature a tuned mass damper. The building features double-deck elevators, which are separated to serve only odd or even floors.
In 2007, Citicorp Center was ranked #125 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.
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Park Avenue, a wide north-south boulevard is noted for its affluent reputation and median greenery. The later of which is maintained by the Fund for Park Avenue. Begonias are a flower of choice for the Funds gardeners because there is no automatic watering system and they can cope with hot sun.
The road that becomes Park Avenue originates as the Bowery. From 8th Street to 14th Street, it is known as Fourth Avenue. Above 14th Street, it becomes a north-south thoroughfare. From 14th Street to 17th Street, it forms the eastern boundary of Union Square and is known as Union Square East; its southbound lanes merge with Broadway for this distance. From 17th Street to 32nd Street, it is known as Park Avenue South, and, for the remainder of its distance, it is known as Park Avenue. As Park Avenue enters Midtown north of Grand Central, it is distinguished by many glass-box skyscrapers that serve as corporate headquarters.
Park Avenue was originally known as Fourth Avenue and carried the tracks of the New York and Harlem Railroad starting in the 1830s. The railroad originally built an open cut through Murray Hill, which was covered with grates and grass between 34th and 40th Street in the early 1850s. A section of this "park" was renamed Park Avenue in 1860. In 1867, the name applied all the way to 42nd Street. When Grand Central Depot was opened in the 1870s, the railroad tracks between 56th and 96th Streets were sunk out of sight, and, in 1888, Park Avenue was extended to the Harlem River.
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520 Madison Avenue, a 577-foot 43-floor skyscraper built in 1982 by Swanke Hayden Connell Architects, takes the form of a typical rectangular tower sheethed in an expensive, polished red granite skin, but uniquely flares out at the bottom and curves towards the sidewalk. Designed for offices, ground-level retail stores including Thomas Pink NYC line Madison Avenue.
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