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The development of the hotel was financed by Laurance S. Rockefeller and it was designed by Edward Charles Bassett for the firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. It opened in 1965. Original plans were to use architect John Carl Warnecke and build a series of small cottages, but those plans were abandoned.
In developing a plan for the massing of the hotel, we sought to make the most of the city's mandated zoning envelope to achieve proportions and scale evocative of New York's classic skyscrapers, says Lawrence Adams, AIA, partner in Adams Soffes Wood Architects & Interiors and co-author of Hotel Design Planning & Development, which will be published ...