Thomas E. Stanley was the Dallas-based architect responsible for the original 1970 Gulf+Western Industries headquarters at 1 Central Park West — the modernist office tower at Columbus Circle that housed the entertainment conglomerate (then the owner of Paramount Pictures and Madison Square Garden) until its mid-1990s relocation. The building's curtain-wall construction and its prominent siting at the southernmost edge of Central Park West made it a postwar corporate landmark, though the design vocabulary belonged firmly to the international-modernist office tradition rather than to residential architecture. The building was substantially reconceived in 1995 by Philip Johnson and Costas Kondylis (see separate profile), stripped to its frame and reclad as the residential condominium that operates today as Trump International Hotel & Tower.
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