The General Motors Building replaced the Savoy Plaza in 1968. Edward Durell Stone, working with Emery Roth & Sons as the associated architects, pulled the new skyscraper back from the street perimeter and sank a plaza, below street level, into the space along Fifth Avenue. The addition of this public space gave General Motors a height bonus for its tower under the 1961 Zoning Resolution, but critics of the design remarked that in addition to being redundant with the Grand Army Plaza immediately adjacent, the sunken plaza was difficult to access and remained unused for much of the year. One of those critics was Donald Trump, who filled in the plaza when he bought the General Motors Building in 1998. The glass cube of the Apple Store now marks its former spot. Designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson and built in 2006, the cube restores a small fragment of the lost street wall. CY