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The W. R. Grace Building is a skyscraper in Manhattan, New York City. The building was designed principally by Gordon Bunshaft, and completed in 1972. The building was commissioned by the Bain New York City
/ref> The Michelin-starred restaurant Gabriel Kreuther is located in its lobby as well as a sister chocolate store.
One of the aesthetic attributes of the building is the concave vertical slope of its north and south facades, on 42nd and 43rd Street. The Grace Building uses the original, rejected design for the facade of the Solow Building, another Bunshaft creation. The sloping facade is also similar to the Chase Tower in Chicago. The exterior of the building is covered in white travertine, which forms a contrast against the black windows and makes the building appear brighter than those surrounding it.
Image:Grace Bldg NY from entrance.jpg, W. R. Grace Building, looking up in front of the entrance on 42nd Street
File:Grace Building New York.jpg, Tower against the sky
File:Manhattan New York City 2008 PD 55.JPG, View from intersection of 43rd Street and Sixth Avenue
File:WR Grace Plaza-Matt Bisanz.jpg, View looking up from plaza
File:Grace Bldg NY from 5th and 40th.jpg, View from 40th Street and Fifth Avenue,
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W.R. Grace Company
W. R. Grace and Co. is an American chemical business based in Columbia, Maryland. It produces specialty chemicals and specialty materials in two divisions: Grace Catalysts Technologies, which makes catalysts and related products and technologies ...
, and was also used by the Deloitte & Touche, LLP.
The building is located at 1114 Sixth Avenue
Sixth Avenue – also known as Avenue of the Americas, although this name is seldom used by New Yorkers, p.24 – is a major thoroughfare in New York City's borough of Manhattan, on which traffic runs northbound, or "uptown". It is commercial ...
, but the main entrance is on 42nd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It overlooks Bryant Park and the New York Public Library
The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City. With nearly 53 million items and 92 locations, the New York Public Library is the second largest public library in the United States (behind the Library of Congress ...
's main branch. The building size has approximately that are rentable, and sits on a site approximately .
The Grace Building is located on the former site of Stern's flagship department store and headquarters. Tenants include Bain & Company./ref> The Michelin-starred restaurant Gabriel Kreuther is located in its lobby as well as a sister chocolate store.
Architecture
One of the aesthetic attributes of the building is the concave vertical slope of its north and south facades, on 42nd and 43rd Street. The Grace Building uses the original, rejected design for the facade of the Solow Building, another Bunshaft creation. The sloping facade is also similar to the Chase Tower in Chicago. The exterior of the building is covered in white travertine, which forms a contrast against the black windows and makes the building appear brighter than those surrounding it.
New York Public Library
The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City. With nearly 53 million items and 92 locations, the New York Public Library is the second largest public library in the United States (behind the Library of Congress ...
in foreground
See also
* List of tallest buildings in New York CityReferences
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