Marine Midland Bank Building

 office building, bank, skyscraper, movie / film / TV location

688-foot, 52-story International-style office building completed in 1967 as the Marine Midland Bank Building. Designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the facade consists of dark bronze-tinted glass with matte black anodized aluminum spandrels and thin mullions, giving the building a distinguished appearance that was consequently widely copied. The building is notable for its slightly trapezoidal plan form, tapering to the side facing Broadway and reducing from four to three structural bays, as well as the first use of a flush, homogenous curtain wall.

One of the first skyscrapers designed under New York's revised zoning regulations of 1961, which encouraged sheer towers on broad plazas, the building occupies just 40% of its site. The tower is set on a broad white travertine plaza, and is known for the distinctive sculpture at its entrance, Isamu Noguchi's Cube (a red, 28-foot high cube with a cylindrical hole in its center). The plaza extends directly to the street, uninterrupted by the standard New York City sidewalk.

The upper floors were likely used as a filming location for White Collar S01 E10 "Vital Signs" as Neal is being rescued from a hospital room by Peter Burke. Views of the then-under construction New York by Gehry building can be seen as well as views of Pace University and the Manhattan Municipal Building. It is now largely occupied by the Brown Brothers Harriman investment bank.

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