Photo © Eduard Hueber | archphoto
Photo © Eduard Hueber | archphoto
Photo © SOM
An unlikely new beacon is glowing in the claustrophobic canyon of Lexington Avenue.
I couldn’t quite place it at first, walking through Midtown Manhattan a few weeks ago, but something around East 50th Street was brighter than I remembered. Then I realized that the once-shadowy hole of an arcade and covered space at 560 Lexington Avenue had become an oasis of light.
“I like that we’ve engaged the city, that the city’s been invited into the space,” said Roger Duffy, a design partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the architectural firm responsible for the renovation.