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Flatiron Building, New York Architecture, USA
Address: 23rd Street, Broadway; 5th Avenue, New York Date 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 Other key New York Skyscrapers: Empire State Building 350 Fifth Avenue 1931 Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, Architects 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 Rockefeller Center 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. World Architecture : e-architect - a guide to key buildings across the globe New York Architects New York Architecture Comments / photos for the Flatiron Building New York Architecture page welcome: info@e-architect.co.uk Flatiron Building New York : page - adrian welch / isabelle lomholt			Buildings by this architect: n/a Key Links: Skyscrapers Architecture Studios New Houses American Architects American Architecture New York Buildings