burgee

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But 40 years ago it was known as a seedy and crime-ridden area, and redevelopment plans by Philip Johnson and John Burgee had been approved.

From The Guardian

In 1984, however, the Municipal Art Society and the National Endowment for the Arts launched a competition for alternative ideas to regenerate the square and find a more visually engaging style than the one proposed by Johnson and Burgee.

From The Guardian

But he was also a shameless publicity hound, which is why it is telling that toward the end of his career, when his longstanding professional partnership with John Burgee had ended and he was continuing to practice on his own, he took on as a client a certain developer by the name of Donald Trump.

From New York Times

By that point, Johnson, now the head of his own firm, Johnson/Burgee, was lending his imprimatur to skyscrapers everywhere—“a string of similarly forgettable buildings,” in Lamster’s account, “unless one happened to live or work in one of those cities, in which case their pharaonic scale and retrograde presence made them unavoidable touchstones, generally unforgiving to the pedestrian.”

From The New Yorker

A year ago, you may recall, the architecture firm Snohetta unveiled its initial plan to reincarnate the 37-story, 647-foot-high building with the Chippendale crown on Madison Avenue, between 55th and 56th Streets, which Philip Johnson completed in 1984 with his partner, John Burgee, for AT&T.

From New York Times