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Flatiron Building New York, Architect, Photo, Manhattan, Image, Location, Date
Flatiron Building, New York Architecture, USA
Famous 20th Century Building, United States of America
Flatiron Building ManhattanAddress: 23rd Street, Broadway; 5th Avenue, New YorkDate built: 1902 Design: Daniel Burnham, Architect  scanned image from 1989 by isabelle lomholt Famous piece of New York architecture that appears on numerous postcards and in many films, so-named due to its sharp pointed plan.   New York skyscraper photos: Andrew McRae, 2007 At 87m high the Flatiron building is the original New York skyscraper.  scanned image from 1989 by isabelle lomholt |
New York Architecture Walking Tours
Key New York Skyscrapers
Empire State Building
350 Fifth Avenue
1931
Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, Architects
photo © Andrew McRae
Empire State Building
381m high skyscraper, Art Deco architecture - especially the tower interior, famous New York landmark
Rockefeller Center
5th - 7th Avenue; 47th - 51st Street, Midtown
1940
Raymond Hood, Architect
photograph © Andrew McRae
Rockefeller Center New York
The home of the beautiful ice rink, supreme luxury of the Rainbow Rooms, and the Radio City Music Hall
Seagram Building
375 Park Avenue
1958
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect; Philip Johnson
Seagram Building
Philip Johnson became an associate for Mies van der Rohe on the Seagram Building in 1955: he worked on interiors such as the Four Seasons Restaurant
New York Skyscrapers
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 - Site of World Trade Center
Ground Zero, Lower Manhattan
2004-
Daniel Libeskind Architects + David Childs of SOM Architects
Controversial towers to replace the New York World Trade Centre skyscrapers lost in 2001. The main Freedom Tower skyscraper by Libeskind was to be a significant number of feet high - 1,776 ft - to mark a key American date in history - United States Year of Independence; the building was largely handed over to architect David Childs.
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200 Greenwich Street, WTC Tower 2
Foster + Partners
image : Foster + Partners
200 Greenwich Street Buildings
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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