Architect:
Costas Machlouzarides
Completion:
1967
Description:
The Church of the Crucifixion is located on the corner of 149th Street and Convent Avenue in Hamilton Heights. It was completed in 1967 and was designed by Costas Machlouzarides, "the architect of the audacious," according to the New York Times, who was born in Cyprus in 1928, graduated from Columbia University in 1953, and does very little architecture these days.
With its floating roof and curving exterior walls, the church is a strange melding of Le Corbusier's Ronchamp (the AIA Guide to NYC calls it "a hallucinogenic version of ... Ronchamp) and an American grain elevator. The first thing that struck me was its relatively small size; I was expecting something much bigger given the late-Modernist formal vocabulary. What seems like a building that would occupy a full block and be visible from all sides actually sits on a small corner lot, addressing its context mainly via the piercing cross and adjacent narrow window.
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Address:
459 West 149th Street
New York, NY 10031
212.281.0900
Map/Directions/Info:
The church is located at the NW corner of 149th Street and Convent Avenue, in Manhattan's Hamilton Heights District.
Train: A,B,C,D to 145th Street, exit at 147th.
Bus: Need bus info
Car: Need car info
Links:
New York Times article on architect (registration req'd)
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