Eighty years practically to the day since its debut on October 3, 1934 as the world’s highest restaurant, New York’s fabled Rainbow Room atop Raymond Hood et al’s Art Deco 30 Rock masterpiece re- opened its preview doors to the Sir John Soanes Museum Foundation. Honorees Phyllis Lambert and David Adjaye shared the stage with like-minded presenters, whose collective dedication to the Soane design legacy resonated well in this interior landmark now renewed and reconceived by Gabellini Sheppard to the fullest extent such rare designation allows. Of New York’s 31,000 landmark properties, just 115 are inside, meaning while function might shift, form or surviving ornament must remain in tact. Known best of late for its portfolio of cool, coruscating restaurants and retail spaces across styles yet united by clean line, sharp reveals, and reveal linings, and even light levels, Gabellini Sheppard emerges here as an ideal reinterpreter of the entire 65th floor, as last undertaken by Hugh Hardy then of HHP in 1985. A full rethinking of use and flow throughout leads finally to the pièce de résistance ballroom with its southern, eastern, and northern views summoning up the jazzy resilience from ...
Eighty years practically to the day since its debut on October 3, 1934 as the world’s highest restaurant, New York’s fabled Rainbow Room atop Raymond Hood et al’s Art Deco 30 Rock masterpiece re- opened its preview doors to the Sir John Soanes Museum Foundation. Honorees Phyllis Lambert and David Adjaye shared the stage with like-minded presenters, whose collective dedication to the Soane design legacy resonated well in this interior landmark now renewed and reconceived by Gabellini Sheppard to the fullest extent such rare designation allows. Of New York’s 31,000 landmark properties, just 115 are inside, meaning while function might shift, form or surviving ornament must remain in tact. Known best of late for its portfolio of cool, coruscating restaurants and retail spaces across styles yet united by clean line, sharp reveals, and reveal linings, and even light levels, Gabellini Sheppard emerges here as an ideal reinterpreter of the entire 65th floor, as last undertaken by Hugh Hardy then of HHP in 1985. A full rethinking of use and flow throughout leads finally to the pièce de résistance ballroom with its southern, eastern, and northern views summoning up the jazzy resilience from ...