January 21, 1990|By New York Times News Service.
A $300 million hotel designed to look and light up like a giant jukebox has opened in Times Square, where the idea for the building took root in the mind of its architect almost 50 years ago.
The Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza-Manhattan, a 46-story hotel on the west side of Broadway between 48th and 49th Streets, is the second major hotel project to go up in the area in four years. Two others are under construction, and two more are being planned.
...A graduate of and a former teacher at Columbia University`s School of Architecture, Lapidus said:
``I grew up in Brooklyn, and it used to be a big thing for me as a little boy to come into Times Square at night, step out of the subway at 42d Street and be visually overwhelmed by the art moderne buildings and their lights, and my design seeks to re-create my reminiscences of that time.`
...with the image of the Times Square glitz of years ago in mind, he ringed the facade with giant banks of multicoloured lights.
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