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The effect is edgy with a hint of tacky, and the low ceilings make the lobby a touch claustrophobic, but this is all made up for by the generous proportions of the rooms themselves.
"This is not Bear Stearns," one officer said contemptuously, describing how he had recently found 33 glassine envelopes of heroin tucked beneath the vinyl skirt of a barricade, one of several recent touches to make the lobby appear less forbidding.
So as part of a $550 million project to upgrade the entire building, Mr. Malkin and a team of architects and designers set out to make the lobby as impressive as it was when the building opened in 1931.
One day he took me into the Paine Webber Building, on Avenue of the Americas, to show me the modest things he had done to make the lobby less banal -- wooden bays to house the art collection, a latticework just inside the glass wall, pink granite floors.
The changes are part of a $6 million interior and exterior renovation of the office building -- a 29-story, 691,000-square-foot tower between 52nd and 53rd Streets -- that is meant to make the lobby more light-filled, modern and inviting, and attract tenants for 325,000 square feet of mostly contiguous space available for occupancy in October 2001.
Now you need to make the lobby in the bank.
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Instead, more modest changes will be made, including a "reimagined" configuration of the hall, and alterations aimed to make the lobbies and public spaces more welcoming.
That's how they achieve their goal". What may make the lobbying at NHTSA by its former insiders effective is that the agency is severely underfunded and understaffed to begin with.
Two other changes have made the lobby more faithful to the building's original plans.
What made the lobby renovation possible was the sale of $6.5 million in historic rehabilitation tax credits.
I made the lobby of the New York Public Library, where there were rows of public telephone booths, my office.
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