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.
Buildings designed by Philip Johnson and Costas Kondylis
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