23 Beekman Place
in New York, United StatesCategory: Attraction
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23 Beekman Place is the address of an apartment building located between East 50th and 51st Streets in the Turtle Bay neighborhood at the far east side of Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The building was re-designed by Paul Rudolph, an American architect and one-time dean of Yale University. It is one of the last of his projects still standing in the city.
The architectural features of its four-level penthouse include a slender steel skeletal structure and a stepped succession of concrete panels, cantilevering over an existing older brownstone, large walls of glass with panoramic East River views, high ceilings, and open floor plans. The facades date to different time periods, but the cement on both of the facades is intended to coordinate upper and lower halves of the building.
Rudolph was commissioned for the project, which later became his personal residency, and continued to work on the building until his death. Rudolph received negative feedback from residents of 23 Beekman Place—mainly from neighboring buildings, who did not want attention drawn to the area—which did not deter him from designing and building the addition, completed in 1982. Following the death of Rudolph and sale of the building by his estate, the building was altered to reconfigure the layout. The property was sold again and alterations continued that, again, were controversial, this time, because the architects changed some of the materials and the essential and unique traits of the home. In 2010, the building was designated as a New York City Landmark.
