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Empire State Building - Famous Manhattan Tower, United States of America

Empire State Building Address: 350 Fifth Avenue, New York Location: Midtown Date built: 1931 Design: Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, Architects The Empire State Building is a celebrated 20th Century skyscraper, designed in the Art Deco style. Photos of the Empire State from 2007: New York skyscraper photos: Andrew McRae The Empire State is a 381m high skyscraper, a world-famous New York landmark. It is a good example of Art Deco architecture - subtle on the exterior, more accentuated in the tower interior. Photos of the Empire State from 2007: New York skyscraper images: Andrew McRae View of Empire State Building from distance, 2007: New York skyscraper photo: Andrew McRae Empire State Building architects : Shreve, Lamb & Harmon

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New York Skyscrapers - Major Designs

Chrysler Building, 405 Lexington Avenue
1930
William Van Alen, Architect
Chrysler Building
Enigmatic New York building, 318m high, an Art Deco skyscraper that is a world-famous symbol for New York. Tallest building globally on completion, taking over from the Eiffel Tower. It was also the tallest building in New York until the Empire State Building was completed the following year. Tower refurbished in 1995.

Rockefeller Center, 5th - 7th Avenue; 47th - 51st Street, Midtown, New York
1932-40
Raymond Hood, Architect

photograph © Andrew McRae
Rockefeller Center
Home of the beautiful ice rink, supreme luxury of the Rainbow Rooms, and the Radio City Music Hall.

Seagram Building, 375 Park Avenue, New York
1954-58
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect; Philip Johnson
Seagram Building

Ten Key New York buildings, chronological:
1. Statue of Liberty, Liberty Island, New York Frederic Bartholdi
2. Flatiron Building Daniel Burnham, Architect
3. Pennsylvania Station McKim, Mead & White, Architects
4. Chrysler Building William Van Alen, Architect
5. Empire State Building Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, Architects
6. Rockefeller Center Raymond Hood, Architect
7. Guggenheim Museum Frank Lloyd Wright Architects
8. Seagram Building Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect
9. TWA Building, New York Airport Eero Saarinen, Architect
10. Whitney Museum Marcel Breuer, Architect

Freedom Tower, Lower Manhattan
2004-
Daniel Libeskind Architects + David Childs of SOM Architects
Towers to replace New York World Trade Centre skyscrapers : Freedom Tower skyscraper.

99 Church Street Tower, Lower Manhattan
Robert A. M. Stern Architects

image : dbox Courtesy of: Silverstein Properties
99 Church Street Tower

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