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Rockefeller Center Building, New York, Architect, Manhattan, Photo, Location, Date

Rockefeller Center New York : Architecture Information

Rockefeller Center : Ice Skating Rink / Rainbow Rooms / Radio City Music Hall, USA



Rockefeller Center

5th - 7th Avenue; 47th - 51st Street, Midtown, Manhattan
1930-39
Raymond Hood, Architect

Rockefeller Center Tower
New York photo: Andrew McRae, 2007

Named after John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who developed it from 1930.

Apart from the history of these 21 buildings, and the strong public realm (including stunnign friezes and sculptures), two things stand out : the beautiful ice rink - Outdoor Plaza in winter - and the supreme luxury of the Rainbow Rooms at the very top looking out over Manhattan. You can drink cocktails or dance away at the top of one of the highest skyscrapers in the city, or both.

Rockefeller Center New York
New York photo: Andrew McRae, 2007

Architectural Style: Art Deco

Address: 1250 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10112, United States
Phone: (212) 632-3975

Down at street level is Radio City Music Hall:

Radio City Music Hall, 1260 Avenue of the Americas
1932
Architect for exterior : Edward Durell Stone ; interior design : Donald Deskey
Rockefeller Center
Rockefeller Center - Radio City, Photo © Tim Collins

RCA Building - now GE Building, 30 Rockefeller Plaza (Fifth Avenue at 49th Street)
1934
Raymond Hood et al
RCA : first Rockefeller Center building

Rockefeller Center - Key Sculptures

Statue of Atlas
Sculptor: Lee Lawrie

Prometheus
Sculptor: Paul Manship

The sunken plaza in front of 30 Rockefeller Plaza contains an ice rink in Winter



 




New York Walking Tours

Ten Key New York buildings, chronological:

1. Statue of Liberty, Liberty Island
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
Another building by Mies van der Rohe is the Barcelona Pavilion

9. TWA Building, New York Airport
Eero Saarinen, Architect

10. Whitney Museum
Marcel Breuer, Architect



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

Empire State Building
Empire State Building
photo © Andrew McRae

Manhattan Tower : skyscraper building - height cut down by 200 feet in 2009
Manhattan Tower
image © Ateliers Jean Nouvel

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Rockefeller Guest House, 242 East 52nd Street
1949-50
Design: Philip Johnson with Landis Gore and Frederick C. Genz, Architects

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