General Motors Building
- Architects
- Edward Durell Stone Emery Roth & Sons
- Year
- 1968
- Style
- International Style
- City
- Manhattan, NY
The General Motors Building, a 50-story, 705-foot office tower at 767 Fifth Avenue on Grand Army Plaza at the southeast corner of Central Park, was designed in the International Style by Edward Durell Stone & Associates with Emery Roth & Sons and completed in 1968 on the site of the former Savoy-Plaza Hotel. It was developed by London Merchant Securities and was half occupied by General Motors when it opened.
the building
Marble and glass facade. The facade is made of vertical piers of white Georgia marble alternating with strips of glass across roughly 1.7 million square feet of space.
A changing plaza. The lobby originally held a GM showroom, later replaced by an FAO Schwarz department store. The public plaza on Fifth Avenue was originally below grade but, after two renovations, now contains the Apple Fifth Avenue entrance and an above-ground seating area.
the style
The tower was built in the International Style. Architecture critics, including Paul Goldberger and Ada Louise Huxtable, widely disapproved of the building upon its completion.
More on International Stylethe architect
Edward Durell Stone & Associates designed the building in collaboration with Emery Roth & Sons.