The architect’s first built work in New York City, 1978, and designed while an employee of Perkins & Will, this lobby was shoe-horned into a left over space of the building undergoing gut renovation. Every element of the design leads the eye down through the space - the stepped planters on the left, the rippling wood slat ceiling above, and a waterfall on the right - focusing on the fragment of copper cornice, rescued from the Commodore Hotel, a turn of the century contemporary of 555E78.
