By Amy Zimmer
DNAinfo News Editor
MANHATTAN — Move over Ford Foundation.
A new building took over the mantle on Tuesday of being the youngest to be designated a New York City landmark.
Japan Society's five-story Modernist style structure at 333 East 47th St., between First and Second avenues, supplanted the Ford Foundation's 12-story glass club on East 43rd Street, completed in 1967, as the new kid on the block.
Designed by Junzo Yoshimura, the building's charcoal-colored façade plays with familiar Japanese elements, such as white ceiling panels and metal screens, according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission.
"Yoshimura produced a serene work that spoke to Japan's aspirations at the time and reflected the nation's contemporary architectural design trends," said Landmarks Preservation Commissioner Robert Tierney in a statement.
Japan Society — who recently gave the public a taste of its latest exhibition "Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Art" when it had to unpack a stuffed deer covered in plastic beads on the sidewalk — is the 12th modernist structure to be landmarked since 2007, the LPC said.
