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Kips Bay Towers

Attraction · Kips Bay, New York

Kips Bay Towers

A twin-tower complex designed by I.M. Pei with James Ingo Freed and engineer August Komendant, opened in stages in 1960 and 1965 on a 7.5-acre urban-renewal site. Its cast-in-place, load-bearing concrete facades pioneered a design later reused across Pei's career.

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Second Avenue between East 30th and 33rd Streets, New York, NY

Photo "Kips Bay Towers": Ajay Suresh, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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