Philip Johnson (1906–2005) and Costas Kondylis (1940–2018) collaborated on the 1995 reconstruction of 1 Central Park West (Trump International Hotel & Tower), reclading the original 1970 Thomas E. Stanley–designed Gulf+Western Industries headquarters as a residential condominium. The architects stripped the building to its structural frame and reclad it in the bronze-tinted glass curtain wall that defines its current silhouette, marked at street level by the stainless-steel globe sculpture that has become a Columbus Circle landmark. Johnson — the first Pritzker Prize laureate (1979) and architect of the Glass House (1949), the Seagram Building (1958, with Mies van der Rohe), and the AT&T Building (1984) — partnered late in his career with Kondylis, whose Costas Kondylis & Partners practice produced an unusually substantial portion of Manhattan's 1990s–2010s condominium inventory including Trump World Tower (2001) and numerous Upper East Side and Midtown East luxury commissions.
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