While walking my routes for the USPS, I'm keeping my eye open for any historical buildings. The building in the foreground (300/333 East 33rd Street) and the background (333/343 East 30th Street) which are part of the Kips Bay Plaza complex were designed by famed architect I.M. Pei.
According to the website Kips Bay Towers at 300 East 33rd Street: Review and Ratings on cityrealty.com:
"Pei, then an architect with the Webb & Knapp development company headed by William Zeckendorf, collaborated with the architectural firm S. J. Kessler & Sons on the development.
The south tower was completed in 1960 and the north tower in 1966.
Their strict geometry is typical of much of his work: good, solid, clean-cut modernity with no frills. His firm's greatest fame lies in its later work such as the great East Wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the new glass pyramid entrance to the Louvre Museum in Paris and the Bank of China tower in Hong Kong.
These two long buildings are parallel to, but offset from, one another and are placed horizontally, east-to-west, on the large, landscaped site. An earlier plan for the site, developed by the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill had called for six buildings, but Pei wanted fewer to create more open space."
I didn't realize the history behind the complex until a tenant who has been living there since the building opened gave me a heads up.
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