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THE 58-STORY, 625-foot-tall buff-brick 500 Fifth Avenue is the plain vanilla of modern classicism. Shreve, Lamb & Harmon’s asymmetrically massed tower is perhaps the closest realization of Eliel Saarinen’s influential “styleless” entry for the Chicago Tribune competition because it has almost no overt historicist references.
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(2005). 500 Fifth Avenue. In: Manhattan Skyscrapers. Princeton Archit.Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-56898-652-1_34
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