News — the Union Carbide Building Falls

What We Will Lose When the Union Carbide Building Falls The Union Carbide building, on Park Avenue in New York City, soon after its completion in 1961. It is now the headquarters for JPMorgan Chase, which plans to demolish it. Credit Archive Photos/Getty Images To paraphrase the famous Blackglama fur advertisements: What becomes a landmark most? Is a building a landmark of architectural design or of architectural taste? Or is it the role it plays in a city’s memory as an embodiment of a set of cultural, economic and political values? The Union Carbide building, now the headquarters of JPMorgan...