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425 Fifth Avenue

425 Fifth Avenue is a 618-foot (188-meter) residential skyscraper at 38th Street and Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It was developed by RFR Davis and designed by Michael Graves. It has 55 floors and 197 units. The building uses air rights from two small adjoining buildings and a zoning bonus for providing a public plaza to maximize its floor area. As of July 2016, it is the 96th-tallest building i…

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2003

Manhattan, Manhattan, United States

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Residential skyscraper in Manhattan, New York

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Michael Graves

1934-2015 · Princeton, New Jersey, United States

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Michael Graves was an American architect, designer, and educator, and principal of Michael Graves and Associates and Michael Graves Design Group. He was a member of The New York Five and the Memphis Group and a professor of architecture at Princeton University for nearly forty years. Following his own partial paralysi…

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Michael Graves Architecture & Design

practice · Princeton, New Jersey, United States

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