Unique Prismatic Design: 400 Park Avenue South By Daniel J. Bollinger
he headline on the website for 400 Park Avenue South reads “Live Outside the Box”, and it’s an appropriate moniker because the building is anything but boxy. Located on the northwest corner of 28th Street and Park Avenue South, 400 Park Avenue South is actually an angular prismatic design. I was impressed by the fact that even though the building is architectonically unique with its irregular shape jutting out in angles, as opposed to the standard Manhattan ‘box’ configuration, it doesn’t stand out like a sore thumb, but blends seamlessly on the block with all of its surrounding buildings. This is another Toll Brothers Building and the Toll Brothers, as well as the architect Christian de Portzamparc, continue to amaze me. Every design element in this building matches, from the angular shape of the entire structure down to the minute details inside each condominium, all which compliment the building’s prismatic theme. Located in NoMad, which stands for North of Madison Square Park, 400 Park Avenue South is in a great area of Manhattan. Close to Gramercy Park, Chelsea, Union Square and Midtown—almost all of the neighborhoods in the city are accessible from this part of town.
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