Talk:Lipstick Building

Building Ownership
Would someone have a list of previous & current owners of this building? If so, could you please post it here or add it to the article, including info source? Thank you kindly. Tell someone (talk) 13:09, 2 January 2009 (UTC) This might interest you: Metropolitan Real Estate Investors Restructures Financing of Lipstick Building -- Shocklord (talk) 20:02, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Madoff
The Madoff Investment Scandal entry states Madoff's company occupied 3 floors  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.232.51.174 (talk) 05:27, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Photograph change needed.
The image used here is not very representative of what the building really looks like.


 * There's a large blown vertical highlight on the building.
 * The sky is bleached out.
 * The color is barely discernible, looking more like tones of burnt umber instead of the reddish-brown tones it really is.
 * The contrast is too wonky - the upper tower is blown while the street level is too dark to see much detail.
 * The photo is taken from too close - this distorts the building's perspective, makes the "lipstick" aspect impossible to see, and cuts off the top.

Possible remedy:

1. Re-shoot it from farther down the block to resemble this Flickr photgraph. Notice that the Flickr Photo is shot looking away from the sun and therefore the sky is blue instead of bleached out like the existing image. Also, it's a clear day with no bright patches of sunlight falling on the building. That makes the color much more realistic and eliminates blown highlights. Unfortunately, at the grown floor level, detail is almost impossible to see. Perhaps a separate ground level photograph is called for because of the detail, as in this Flickr photograph? Does anyone know how to formally request a new photograph?

2. Although not as good as the Flickr photo, this one already exists in Wikimedia Commons. The color is not as far off; there are no blown highlights; and the "lipstick" shape is somewhat more indicated: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lipstick_building.jpg Does anyone know how to switch photographs?

Thank you for your help, Wordreader (talk) 04:56, 27 March 2015 (UTC)