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Commission approves revised hotel entry and marquee at 10 Rockefeller Plaza with modifications
Summary
The commission approved a revised design for a hotel entrance and marquee at 10 Rockefeller Plaza, finding the concept compatible with the complex if the applicant works with staff to lighten mullion profiles and reduce the scale of two wall sconces.
The Landmarks Preservation Commission approved revisions to the hotel entrance at 10 Rockefeller Plaza on Nov. 25, finding the concept compatible with Rockefeller Center's variety of approved marquees but requiring staff-level refinements to the window mullions and the scale of two proposed sconces.
Cass Stackelberg and Pamela Ortega presented the redesign: a limestone enframement around a secondary hotel entry on West 48th Street, a glazed operable facade with a lit interlayer glass that will "glow" from within, and a modest marquee with illuminated coffers. Amy Kelly, representing Rockefeller Center and Tishman Speyer, described the project as contributing to the campus's vitality: "We really view our role here at Tishman Spire at Rockefeller Center as maintaining the magic of this place."
Opposition came from John Graham of the Victorian Society in New York, who said the scheme introduced too much ornament and would remove historic limestone, and urged denial: "We ask that this proposal be denied." Commissioners debated whether the treatment would be "too heavy" and whether sconces were appropriate; a motion to approve with modifications directing the applicant to work with staff to reduce mullion dimensions and scale the sconces passed.
