This twenty one story tubular skyscraper is the sixth tallest building in Buffalo. Clad in white marble, the building occupies the entire block and faces on the front a plaza.
The base and the shaft
Although the shaft appears to be pure international style, the base, with its arcades, shows why Yamasaki (with Edward Durell Stone) is sometimes described as a practitioner of "romanticized" or "decorated" international style.