An elevator will be added, but in a way that will make the facade elegantly asymmetrical.
To make the facade as dynamic as possible, Mr. Bastien said, "we used angular forms and up-lighting".
An article in Architects' & Builders Magazinee in 1907 praised Freeman's handling of the architectural detail but took issue with his use of double-height window frames to make the facade resemble a much lower building.
If David Rockwell finds it so challenging to make the "facade, lobby, rooms and restaurant" of a hotel "all work together" ["New Hotel on West 56th Street; A Downtown Look in Midtown," July 23] then perhaps he should engage someone specially trained for that task.
British Artist Alex Chinneck has created an artwork at the market place in Covent Garden that makes the facade of the Piazza look like it is floating.
She bought the northeast corner of First Avenue and 49th Street, and Howells designed for her a brooding orange-brick monolith, 26 stories high, with pointing colored to make the brick facade look like a single mass.
The first phase of improvements, expected to begin in June 2002, will involve renovating the existing building on 165th Street and the Grand Concourse to make the glass facade more inviting and to upgrade the interior.
Scott Duenow, a senior associate for Platt Byard Dovell White, the renovation architect, said, "We think the renovations to the facade will make the society more of an asset, architecturally, to Central Park West".
"The juxtaposition of the two words would help make the inscription on the Reichstag facade immune to nationalist interpretation," Mr. Haacke said.
For now, when they look out through the arena's soaring glass facade or make the two-block hike from Pennsylvania Station, they will see a landscape of parking lots and ramshackle buildings.
