When it was built in 1977, Citicorp Center (later renamed Citigroup Center, now called 601 Lexington) was, at 59 stories, the seventh-tallest building in the world.

One challenge remained: St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, at the corner of Lexington Avenue and East 54th Street, which was also a cultural center and jazz mecca. 5 A new book delves into a little ...

When it was built in 1977, Citicorp Center (later renamed Citigroup Center, now called 601 Lexington) was, at 59 stories, the seventh-tallest building in ...

The Citicorp Center was completed in 1978 and contains three interlocking buildings. ... It also includes a 6-story retail and office structure and Saint Peter's Church.

The base of Manhattan's Citicorp Center, with St. Peter's Church at the lower left, was designed by William LeMessurier, who later admitted to making a mistake.

The former Citicorp Center, ... Saint Peter’s Church is also on site—a condition of the skyscraper’s rise—and those four columns allow the larger tower to cantilever over the church.

The Citicorp Center, ... If approved, the entire 59-story office tower as well as its neighboring church and low-rise retail space would become a single landmark—the youngest one in the city.

Citicorp Center, located on nearly the full-block bounded by Lexington and Third avenues, 53rd and 54th streets, was constructed in 1977. Designed by Stubbins Associates and Emery Roth & Sons, ...

Hugh Stubbins Jr., 94, an architect whose Citigroup Center in Manhattan, with its sharply angled roof, is a major icon on the New York skyline, died July 5 at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Mass.