American Skyscraper Designs

9 West 57th Street, New York photo : Andrew McRae	Aqua Tower Chicago, Illinois -
23 East 22nd Street, New York -	99 Church Street Tower, New York image : dbox Courtesy of: Silverstein Properties
200 Greenwich Street, New York image : Foster + Partners	400 Park Avenue South, New York -
AT&T Building, New York image isabelle lomholt	BLUE Residential Tower, New York photo: Peter Mauss/ESTO
Brooklyn Tower, New York image from Behnisch Architekten	LVMH Tower, New York photo : Wade Zimmerman
MoMA Tower, New York image © Ateliers Jean Nouvel	New York Times Building, New York photo Andrew McRae
One Bryant Park, New York image © Jock Pottle, Esto for Cook+Fox Architects	One Liberty Plaza, New York photo Andrew McRae
Time Warner Center, New York photo Andrew McRae	World Trade Center towers, New York image Maki and Associates, courtesy of Silverstein Properties

American Architecture

56 Leonard Street, New York
2008-
Herzog & de Meuron

image © Herzog & de Meuron, Basel, 2008
56 Leonard Street

Museum Plaza Louisville, Kentucky
2007-
REX
Museum Plaza will change Louisville's skyline. This is what it will look like upon completion in 2010:

PRNewsFoto/Museum Plaza
Louisville tower - skyscraper design proposal

Key American Skyscraper Buildings, no links:

15 Central Park West, New York
2008
Robert A. M. Stern
up to 35 storeys

111 First Street - mixed-use tower, Jersey City
2007
OMA
52 storeys

500 Fifth Avenue Building, New York
1931
Shreve, Lamb & Harmon Associates
212m high

900 Madison Avenue, New York
2006-
30 storeys high

Austrian Cultural Forum Tower, New York
2002
Atelier Raimund Abraham
24 storeys / 278ft high

Boston Tower, Massachusetts
2007-
Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Carnegie Hall Tower, New York
1990
Cesar Pelli, Architect

Chrysler Building, New York
1930
William Van Alen, Architect
Chrysler Building

City Spire Center, New York
-
Murphy/Jahn Architects
248m high skyscraper

Eleven Times Square, New York
2007-
FXFowle Architects
40 storeys

Empire State Building, New York
1931
Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, Architects
Empire State New York Building

Flatiron Building, New York
1902
Daniel Burnham, Architect

Fordham Spire, Chicago, Illinois
2006-10
Santiago Calatrava Architects

Fountain Place, Dallas, Texas
1986
Pei Cobb Freed and Partners
60-storey skyscraper, 720 ft high

Hearst Building, New York
2006
Foster + Partners
Hearst Building New York

JP Morgan Chase New York, New York
1960
SOM
215m high

John Hancock Tower, 200 Clarendon Street, Boston, Massachusetts
1976
I.M. Pei and Partners
John Hancock Tower : tallest New England building

Lever Building, New York
1952
Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) Architects
Lever Building

One Chase Manhattan Plaza, New York
1960
Gordon Bunschaft / SOM

Pan Am Building, New York
1963
Walter Gropius with Emery Roth & Sons and Pietro Belluschi
renamed Metlife Building

Penzoil Place, Houston, Texas
1975
Philip Johnson
36 storey skyscrapers, office space

PPG Place, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1984
Philip Johnson and John Burgee
One PPG Place, 40-storey office building - PPG Industries headquarters

Rockefeller Center, New York
1940
Raymond Hood, Architect
Rockefeller Center New York

Seagram Building 375 Park Avenue, New York
1958
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect; Philip Johnson
Seagram Building

Sears Tower, Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois
1973
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Sears Tower

Woolworth Building, New York
1913
Cass Gilbert, Architect
241m high, one of the first New York skyscrapers

World Trade Center - site, New York
1973; destroyed 2001
Minoru Yamasaki, Emery Roth & Sons
World Trade Center building

World Financial Center, New York
1986
Cesar Pelli, Architect

W.R. Grace Building, New York
1974
Skidmore Owings & Merrill

Freedom Tower

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