450 Lexington Avenue

450 Lexington Avenue | New York, NY

Background: This is a 900,000 square foot building built over the 45th Street post office. It was built in the 1980s by the Hines Interests. The materials and design project classical purity. The lobby has two main entrances on differing grade levels. The entrance from Lexington Avenue offers a vista of the lobby looking up a set of stairs into a large public reception area with a barrel vaulted ceiling. Lining the corridor from Lexington Avenue are six elegant black and white photographs of Parisian parks by Alexander Vethers. The 45th Street lobby is entered from the mid-block. The lobby…

360 Lexington Avenue

360 Lexington Avenue | New York, NY

About the Artists A bold, abstract expressionist-style landscape by Ronnie Landfield and a Picasso-esque sculptural relief by Kevin Barrett both express the bravado of an intuitive and primal language. Ronnie Landfield Ronnie Landfield has had a distinguished career as a painter since 1965.  Spirituality and feeling are the basic subjects of his work; Reason to Believe is a depiction of intuitive expressions using color as language, and the landscape as a metaphor for the arena of life. The revelation of a primal image that delivers an immediate response in the viewer is his goal. His paintings convey a felt perception of life,…