666 Fifth Avenue
| 666 Fifth Avenue | |
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| General information | |
| Location | 666 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, New York 10103 |
| Coordinates | 40°45′37″N 73°58′34″W / 40.760163°N 73.976204°W |
| Completed | 1957 |
| Owner | Kushner Properties |
| Height | |
| Roof | 483 ft (147 m) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 41 |
| Floor area | 1,500,000 sq ft (140,000 m2) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Carson & Lundin |
| Developer | Tishman Realty and Construction |
666 Fifth Avenue is a 41-story office building on Fifth Avenue between 52nd and 53rd Streets in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
The Tishman family via Tishman Realty and Construction built the 1,500,000-square-foot (140,000 m2) tower in 1957. It was designed by Carson & Lundin and the building was called the Tishman Building. One of its most famous exterior features was the prominent 666 address emblazoned on the top of the building. The other distinctive exterior features are embossed aluminum panels. The original design included lobby sculptures by Isamu Noguchi including the "Landscape of the Cloud" which consists of sinuously cut thin railings in the ceiling to create a cloud effect. The cloud is also carried into a ceiling to floor waterfall. The penthouse was occupied by the Top of the Six's restaurant, operated by Stouffer's. For many years the building had a distinctive feature of a T-shaped atrium walk-through open to the sidewalks on 52nd Street, 53rd Street and Fifth Avenue with glass storefronts inside the walk-through. This included a bookstore and another area used for years by Alitalia Airlines. The entrance to 666 Fifth Avenue was inside this walk-through. For many years the building was the home of major advertising firm Benton & Bowles.
Tishman Realty dissolved in 1976 and the building was sold for $80 million (about $520 million in real value). In the late 1990s, Japanese firms bought both Rockefeller Center and 666 Fifth Avenue. The new owner of 666 Fifth was Sumitomo Realty & Development Company. Major changes included replacing the Top of the Six's restaurant with the Grand Havana Room, a cigar bar private club.
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