834 Fifth Avenue is located on 64th Street and features a limestone-clad faade and art deco details throughout. The New York Observer once called it the most pedigreed building on the snobbiest street in the country’s most real estate obsessed city. He went on to design many more quintessential New York. Built in 1930, this elegant building designed by Rosario Candela is considered one of his finest works. Michael Gross’ famed book ‘740 Park: The Story of the World’s Richest Apartment Building,’ the biography of Candela’s most famous tower, which has became the home for America’s most powerful families (V anderbilt, Rockefeller, Chrysler, Houghton, and later Kravis, Koch, Bronfman, Perelman, Steinberg, and Schwarzman) has brought his name back. New York Today A Classic New York Building Celebrates Its 101st Birthday Rosario Candela was the architect of 215 West 92nd Street. Marked by a graceful triple-arched driveway, this sought after building is known for its large-scale residences. Candela’s name was completely forgotten in the postwar years, when the glass curtain took over as the symbol of New York skyscraper, and has not come back until well into the 80s. 1 Sutton Place is one of prominent architect Rosario Candela’s esteemed co-ops. The tour that we received, as a part of my course Design and Decorative Arts in New York City, by the show’s curator Donald Albrecht revealed that Candela was particularly active in three major neighborhoods, creating the distinctive “prewar” streetscapes of Park and Fifth Avenues, Sutton Place, and Central Park West. A new exhibition explores the genius and impact of legendary architect Rosario Candela, whose 1920s Manhattan co-ops set the global gold standard. Inspired by the designs of legendary 1920s architect Rosario Candela, 15 Central Park West is an homage to the opulence of old-school luxury apartment buildings in New York. This morning, I made my way to the Museum of the City of New York, just hours before its opening of the exhibition ‘ Elegance in the Sky: The Architecture of Rosario Candela.‘ It comes to revisit the setback terraces, the neo-Georgian and the Art Deco ornament of Candela-designed high-rise apartments, to explore the shift in the real estate market, and to illuminate on the classic New York City lifestyle. Called ‘the Bernini of the Upper East Side’ by my friend and colleague David Netto, Candela’s career emerged when the culture of the skyscraper had become the touchstone of New York City’s built fabric and when luxurious living had moved from the mansion to the ‘mansion in the sky.’ With no less than 75 buildings completed within less than a decade until ended by the Great Depression, Rosario Candela has been credited for formulating the high standard of chic urban lifestyle that New York has come to be known for. A new exhibition explores the genius and impact of legendary architect Rosario Candela, whose 1920s Manhattan co-ops set the global gold standard. You cannot understand New York City living without knowing the work of Rosario Candela, the most legendary NY architect of the 20s and the 30s. AT no time in New York Citys history were grander apartments built than in the late 1920s, and, by near universal agreement, no architect designed them better than Rosario Candela, the immigrant.
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