Rivertower Apartments

 residence, skyscraper, condominium, apartment building

Height (architectural) 124.06 m
Floors (above ground) 38
Construction end 1982
Architect: Schuman, Lichtenstein, Claman & Efron

This giant, trapezoidal, through-block, apartment tower radically departs from the city's regimented building alignment with its rectilinear midtown grid.
Its long facades are at 45 percent angles with the sidestreets and the tower is set back from 54th Street with landscaped plazas on either side of it.

More interestingly, it is bigger at the top than at the bottom, an exceedingly rare high-rise phenomenon. Its bulges provide dramatic bay windows for the highest, and most expensive, apartments, and give the building a less than svelte, but very powerful profile.

Developed by Harry B. Macklowe, this 38-story building was erected in 1981 and was designed by Schuman Lichtenstein Claman & Efron with Rudolph de Harak. It has 324 apartments.

420 East 54th Street

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