Part of the development complex constructed between 1929 and 1940, this building gets its name from its first tenant, a media company. The work of a large team of designers, architects, engineers and artists, a young Edward Durell Stone was the project architect on this project.

New York University hired I.M. Pei in the 1960s to design 3 thirty-story towers, in keeping with Robert Moses’ superblock development. The pinwheel arrangement of towers around a central plaza not only creates a dynamic public space, but also serves to connect the surrounding neighborhoods. Take note of Norwegian sculptor Carl Nesjar’s enlargement of Picasso’s Bust of Sylvette.

Architect Kevin Roche and engineer John Dinkeloo designed this Midtown office building in 1963. This building is most noted for its indoor public space, with its central atrium occupying a large portion of the floor plan.