I agree. That bldg was fugly. As were the surrounding areas until Time Warner came along.
https://ilovetheupperwestside.com/th...s-predecessor/
There were detractors from the start. Unimpressed, world famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright sniffed to the NY Times, “It’s a great utilitarian achievement, but architecture is something else again.”
Built by architects Leon and Lionel Levy and planned by Robert Moses, The Coliseum included both a windowless, low-rise exhibition space and a 26-story office block, which Christopher Gray of The New York Times criticized as a “low point for New York’s public buildings” in a 1987 article. He added that “the Coliseum was simply a plain rectangle” and that “the relation between the two elements was awkward at best.”
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