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 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. 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 - 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

image © Herzog & de Meuron, Basel, 2008

Empire State Building

photo © Andrew McRae

Manhattan Tower : skyscraper building - height cut down by 200 feet in 2009

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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