Film Center Building
The Film Center Building is a 13-story office building catering to businesses involved in film, theatre, music and audio production and exploitation. It is located at 630 Ninth Avenue between 44th and 45th Streets in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was built in 1928–29 and was designed in Art Deco style by Ely Jacques Kahn of the firm of Buchman & Kahn. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. Interior. The Film Center's first-floor interior, highlighted by Kahn's "highly individualistic version of  the Art Deco style", which shows pre-Columbian influences, was designated a New York City landmark in 1982. According to the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, the decorative scheme of the lobby is "one of Kahn's most striking interior designs". The decoration contains 3D motifs of movie cameras and cylinders. The lobby's walls and ceilings are designed to resemble tapestries, while details such as stair risers, ventilation grilles, directory signs, and elevator doors were designed in a multicolored scheme. Of particular interest is the polychromatic elevator lobby mosaic. References. Notes