Tower 49

Tower 49 is an office skyscraper in the Midtown Manhattan district of New York City. The lot is fronted on both 48th Street and 49th Street between 5th Avenue and Madison Avenue. The street frontages were offset by about the width of an NYC brownstone lot on both sides.To address this design challenge, the firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill came up with a "simple crystalline form" of two chamfer-cornered masses joined by the central service core and wrapped in blue-tinted mirror glass.Tenants include the Major League Baseball Players Association. Tower 49 is one of the few buildings to have a registered trademark symbol as part of its official name.Tower 49 GalleryTower 49 Gallery collaborates with artists on long term exhibitions and will typically invite a curator to organize and write the catalog essay for the exhibition. The concept of the gallery is to give the public a chance to enjoy art, and to display artworks in a space where people are living and working.Exhibitions Jules Olitski, July 2013 – July 2014 Natvar Bhavsar Rang Rasa, October 7, 2014 – March 12, 2015 The Bennington Legacy: Willard Boepple, Isaac Witkin and James Wolfe, April 30 – October 29, 2015 Big Redux: Friedel Dzubas, November 9, 2015 – April 9, 2016 Free Fall by Cordy Ryman, May 2017 – May 2018