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Demolition of ugly 425 Park Avenue a milestone for city: Architecture review
![From left: 425 Park Avenue and a rendering of the new tower (Rendering courtesy dbox)](https://static.therealdeal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/425-park-final.jpg)
From the June issue: The significance of what will soon occur at 425 Park Avenue is twofold: what is going up, and what is coming down. So far, attention has focused exclusively upon the former, a 41-story, 650,000-square-foot office tower designed by Norman Foster and his London firm, Foster & Partners.
Foster’s design was selected with considerable fanfare in October. The building’s developers, Lehman Brothers Holdings and L&L Holding Co., invited 11 internationally acclaimed firms to submit designs. Four were chosen as finalists: Foster, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas and Richard Rogers. [more]
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