Manufacturers Trust Company Building
Coordinates: 40°45′15″N 73°58′51″W / 40.7541°N 73.9809°W
The Manufacturers Trust Company Building, now known as 510 Fifth Avenue, is a historic building located at the southwest corner of West 43rd Street and Fifth Avenue in the New York City borough of Manhattan.
Considered "the very model of Modernism" in architecture, the Midtown Manhattan building is a designated New York City landmark, and is considered "an important, historic building in the same league as modern architectural legends like Lever House and the Seagram Building." The AIA Guide to New York City calls it "a glass-sheathed supermarket of dollars," and the building's glass design has been called a "metaphor for honesty and transparency in banking" and "symbol of a self-confident era" which influenced commercial architecture.
The glass-and-aluminum building was completed and opened in 1954. It was built as a bank for the Manufacturers Trust Company, which later merged with the Central Hanover Bank & Trust to form Manufacturers Hanover Corporation.Charles Evans Hughes III and Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill designed the building, assisted by Patricia W. Swan and Roy O. Allen; Hughes won an internal company design competition to be awarded the project. The interior design was done by Eleanor H. Le Maire.
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