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The Manufacturers Trust Company Building, now known as 510 Fifth Avenue, is a historic building located at the southwest corner of West 43rd Street and Fifth Avenue in the New York City borough of Manhattan.〔〔Newman, Andy. ("Interior of Fifth Ave. Bank Building Is Named a Landmark" ) ''New York Times'' (February 15, 2011)〕 Considered "the very model of Modernism" in architecture,〔 the Midtown Manhattan building is a designated New York City landmark,〔 and is considered "an important, historic building in the same league as modern architectural legends like Lever House and the Seagram Building."〔 The ''AIA Guide to New York City'' calls it "a glass-sheathed supermarket of dollars,"〔 and the building's glass design has been called a "metaphor for honesty and transparency in banking" and "symbol of a self-confident era" which influenced commercial architecture.〔("Past Watch Site: 510 Fifth Avenue" ) on the World Monuments Fund website〕 ==Building history== The glass-and-aluminum building was completed and opened in 1954.〔〔 It was built as a bank for the Manufacturers Trust Company, which later merged with the Central Hanover Bank & Trust to form Manufacturers Hanover Corporation.〔 Charles Evans Hughes III and Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill designed the building, assisted by Patricia W. Swan and Roy O. Allen; Hughes won an internal company design competition to be awarded the project.〔Pogrebin, Robin. ("Modernist Landmark Behind a Court Battle" ) ''New York Times'' (September 28, 2011)〕〔, p.271〕〔Postal, Matthew A., (Manufacturers Trust Company Building Interior Designation Report ), New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (February 15, 2011)〕 The interior design was done by Eleanor H. Le Maire.〔 The four-story building is the first bank building in the United States to be built in the International Style,〔, p.103〕 and has been described by the ''New York Times'' as a "luminous box with an unbroken glass facade."〔 Among its most notable features is a seven-foot-wide circular metal Mosler bank vault door on its first floor, visible from the street through the windows, which originally opened to a 30-ton stainless-steel vault.〔〔〔Dunlap, David W. ("Behind the Low-Priced Clothing, a Priceless Midcentury Sculpture" ) ''New York Times'' (May 31, 2012)〕〔 It because of this feature that the ''AIA Guide'' to remark that the building "led the banking profession out of the cellar and onto the street."〔 In 1997, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to grant landmark protection to the building's exterior,〔Harris, Gale. ("Manufacturers Trust Company Building Designation Report" ) New York Landmarks Preservation Commission (October 21, 1997)〕 and in 2011 also designated the building's mid-century modern interior as a landmark.〔 In designating the interior as a landmark, Commission chairman Robert B. Tierney said that the building's "luminous ceilings, spacious floor plans, white marble piers and other minimalist features blur the distinction between inside and out."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Manufacturers Trust Company Building」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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