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The lobby of this Art Deco skyscraper, designed by William Lamb and completed in 1931, is being restored.

[b]A plastic-panel dropped ceiling in the lobby, added in the 1960s, is being removed. In its place will go a re-creation of the original ceiling, a gold-leaf-on-canvas abstraction of planets and stars. A re-creation, rather than a restoration, is necessary because removing the white paint slapped over the original art was deemed too costly and difficult, explains Richard Metsky, an architect with Beyer Blinder Belle Architects and Planners, which is handling the renovation. Crews will stretch a new canvas over the old one, preserving it in case future generations ever develop a more cost-effective restoration method.

Overall, Metsky hopes to improve the character of a lobby whose triple-height main entry and buffed gray-and-lilac terrazzo floors has in recent years been muddled by bulky security gates and garish storefront signs. Renovations, which begin in July and will last until March 2008, will add rows of cold cathode bulbs to brighten the dim space, which encompasses half a city block and has five entrances. Back-lighted illustrations of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, added in the 1960s, will be removed.

Beyer Blinder Belle is particularly suited to the project, having restored Grand Central Terminal and the Chrysler Building, both nearby New York City landmarks with highly decorative ceilings.
.....god......fucking 1960s.

Aside from that, it's so great about this restoration, and I think it's awesome that they are recruiting the restorer of Chrysler and GCT, two very well-turned out restoration jobs, IMO. I'll have to visit the Empire State when I'm home in the summer.

lol that'd be so awesome if they actually did come up with a better restoration method, and then they're all "What idiots paint over artwork, and then cover it with canvas?"
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I cannot wait to be there next spring!
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.....god......fucking 1960s.

"What idiots paint over artwork...?"
The same type of idiots who demolished the Roxy and gutted your Paramount, just like ours who destroyed the San Francisco Fox. Those were incredible palaces that can never be created again, unlike our 60's Fox Plaza highrise which replaced the theater.
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Was the green lighting for enviro-advertisement?
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Was the green lighting for enviro-advertisement?
I forgot what it was for, but the colors change frequently enough that I don't even bother to keep up with the meaning...
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Green lights....I think It was in October, Ramadan or something
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The same type of idiots who demolished the Roxy and gutted your Paramount, just like ours who destroyed the San Francisco Fox. Those were incredible palaces that can never be created again, unlike our 60's Fox Plaza highrise which replaced the theater.
Not to play the "mine is bigger than yours" game, but in the 1950s there was actually a proposal to route I-20 (the main E-W interstate through Atlanta) directly through the historic downtown. Yes, the state actually considered demolishing ALL the buildings from the early 1900s. It was eventually moved south a bit, but we have still had a virtual plague of building demolitions...many of them which haven't even resulted in new development.

Case in point: what the hell were people thinking during this decade?
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Old Posted Feb 19, 2008, 10:29 PM
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Green lights....I think It was in October, Ramadan or something
That particular green was a couple of weeks ago. It'll be green again for St Pat's. My favorite is all blue, but I think the all white defines it best.
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It's enough to make you go Ape!....
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What's truly technologically awe-inspiring is the fact that it was completed in less than 13 months.

Compare that with the Burj Dubai, which will eventually have taken more than 3 times as long to finish.
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What's truly technologically awe-inspiring is the fact that it was completed in less than 13 months.
More impressive to me is when it was built.
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Near or far, the King of the skyscrapers still has a commanding presence.
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Go to Google Earth and download the ESB model, tilt the the camera horizontal and you will be amazed on how far you're able to see it!
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Has there ever been a proposal to clean up the antenna on the ESB? It seems to me that short of removing it (that won't fly as it is so identified with the tower since it was added in the '50's) they could make it more of a "spire" like the Chrysler's; maybe chrome/aluminum tube structure or something like that that is solid and more continuous with the rest of the building. Any thoughts?
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