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March 29, 2005
27 East 27th
Ziff Davis is the primary tenant of this boxy & moxieless pile of failed 60's modernism, with its stairs to nowhere, its terrible street presence, and insulting sight placement. Oh, its a really nice facade, dude. Makes me feel like I'm waiting for a long, slow, bureaucratic death. Oh, and great landscaping as well. This building situates nicely, everything wrong with derivative modernism, kind of like an earlier Hatin' smackdown, on the Kips Bay Branch Library.
This building would be even more forgettable if it wasn't situated across the street from the site of the original Madison Sq. Garden, where its architect, Stanford White was murdered, and since 1928 the home of Cass Gilbert's golden topped 40-storey New York Life Insurance building. Give Madison some Love already!
stairs to the exhaust vents and seat less, scraggly, unkept perim-plaza.
Posted by jmarston at March 29, 2005 05:17 PM