New York Architecture, USA : Information + Images

LVMH Building Christian de Portzamparc, Architect photo : Wade Zimmerman LVMH Tower La Maison Unique, Longchamps store, Manhattan 2007 Heatherwick Studio Lefcourt National Building Fifth Avenue, Midtown 1929 Shreve, Lamb & Harmon Associates 153m high, rather plain rectilinear stepped Manhattan tower built for Samuel Lefcourt. Shreve, Lamb & Harmon Associates of course were the designers of probably the most famous New York skyscraper, the Empire State building. Lever Building 390 Park Avenue, New York Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) Architects Lever Building The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts - redevelopment 2007-10 65th Street refurbishment: Diller Scofidio + Refro with FX Fowle Architects Lincoln Center Promenade: Diller Scofidio + Refro with Beyer Blinder Belle Harmony Atrium redevelopment - visitor center: Tod Williams Billie Tsein Architects Lipstick Building 885 Third Avenue (at 53rd Street), New York 1986 Philip Johnson and John Burgee Longchamp Store - Soho Boutique : see La Maison Unique Louis Vuitton store facade, New York Jun Aoki Architect photo : Andrew McRae New York store Manhattan Condominium 1986 Rafael Vinoly Architects Manhattanville redevelopment plan : see Columbia University, up this page Marni Boutique Madison Avenue 2009 Design: Sybarite with Studio Morsa Marni Madison Avenue Metal Shutter Houses, West Chelsea, Manhattan 2007 Shigeru Ban Metropolitan Opera House Lincoln Center 1966 Wallace K. Harrison, Architect Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Main Building, 1 Madison Avenue 1893 Napoleon LeBrun & Sons Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower 1909 Napoleon LeBrun & Sons Mission of India to the UN, 235 East 43rd Street, New York 1993 Charles Correa Architect Mulberry St Condominium, Manhattan - ShoP Architects Museum of Modern Art - MoMA, Midtown redevelopment: Yoshio Taniguchi; Executive architect: KPF Architecture photo : Andrew McRae MoMA New York MoMA Extension + Hotel + Apartments - Tower Jean Nouvel image © Ateliers Jean Nouvel MoMA Tower + MoMA Tower Alternative Museum of African Art, 5th Avenue 2007-09 Robert A.M. Stern Architects Located in lower part of 19-storey luxury residential tower Museum of Arts and Design, Columbus Circus - Allied Works Museum of the City of New York, Fifth Avenue between 103rd and 104th Streets 1932 Joseph H. Freedlander Georgian Revival building Museum of the City of New York - Extension : James G. Dinan and Elizabeth R. Miller Gallery 2008 Polshek Partnership 3000 sqft pavilion gallery Museum of Folk Art - Tod Williams + Billie Tsien New Amsterdam Plein & Pavilion, The Battery Ben van Berkel image : UNStudio New Amsterdam Plein New Globe Theater 2003 Foster + Partners New Museum of Contemporary Art - Extension, SoHo, Manhattan SANAA architects, Tokyo – Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa image from SANAA Manhattan Art Gallery New York Museum of Natural History - Ralph Applebaum New York State Pavilion, Flushing Meadows, Corona Park, Queens 1964 Philip Johnson, Architect New York State Theater - Philip Johnson, Architect Lincoln Center plaza + fountain 1965 Philip Johnson, Architect New York Stock Exchange, 8 Broad Street 1901-03 George B. Post New York Times Building, central Manhattan Renzo Piano Building Workshop with FXFOWLE; interiors by Gensler photo : Andrew McRae New York Times Building : Company headquarters, 52 storeys One Bryant Park - Bank of America Tower Cook + Fox Architects image © Jock Pottle, Esto for Cook+Fox Architects One Bryant Park One Chase Manhattan Plaza (Chase Manhattan Bank) 1960 Gordon Bunschaft / Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) One Liberty Plaza, Lower Manhattan Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) photo : Andrew McRae Manhattan skyscraper - 226m high P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Canopy nARCHITECTS photo : Frank Oudeman P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Canopy Pan Am Building, central Manhattan 1963 Walter Gropius with Emery Roth & Sons and Pietro Belluschi renamed Metlife Building Pennsylvania Station district redevelopment, Manhattan 2007- Architects: Skidmore Owings & Merrill; Foster + Partners; Kohn Pedersen Fox Incl. existing Penn Station, Madison Square Garden & 2 office towers Porter House Condominium – Renovation, Meatpacking District, Manhattan - ShoP Architects Prada Store New York Rem Koolhaas, Architect / OMA photo : Armin Linke New York shop Pratt Institute Higgins Hall - addition Brooklyn 2006 Steven Holl Architects Pronovias Store GCA Arquitectos Asociados picture : Wade Zimmerman Photographer New York store The Queens Museum expansion 2007-10 Grimshaw with Ammann & Whitney National competition 2001 winner: Eric Owen Moss (did not progress) The Queens Museum in 2005 appointed Grimshaw Architects with Ammann & Whitney RCA Building - Formerly the GE building, 30 Rockefeller Plaza 1934 Raymond Hood Architect Formerly the GE building - General Electric Rector St Pedestrian bridge, Lower Manhattan - ShoP Architects Residential towers – proposal, Midtown - ShoP Architects Rockefeller Center, Midtown Raymond Hood, Architect Rockefeller Center New York Rockefeller Guest House 242 East 52nd Street 1949-50 Philip Johnson, Architect Schacter Gallery, Charles Lane Acconci Studio picture from the architects Manhattan gallery Seagram Building 375 Park Avenue, New York Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect; Philip Johnson Seagram building Seagram Building Lexington Avenue 2007- Foster + Partners SHO Shaun Hergatt - restaurant, The Setai New York 2009 Robert D. Henry Architects SHO Shaun Hergatt Slide Loft Ben Hansen Architect image : Ben Hansen Architect Slide Loft South Street Seaport redevelopment 2008- SHoP Architects Sperone Westwater Gallery, 257 Bowery Foster + Partners image : Foster + Partners Sperone Westwater Gallery The Standard New York, USA Polshek Partnership photo © Nikolas Koenig/Hotels AB The Standard New York Staten Island Police Precinct, Staten Island Rafael Vinoly Architects image from Rafael Viñoly Architects Staten Island building Statue of Liberty Liberty Island, New York Frederic Bartholdi photo : Andrew McRae Statue of Liberty Storefront for Art and Architecture 1992-93/96 Steven Holl, Architects designed with Vito Acconci Switch Building, 109 Norfolk St, Lower East Side nARCHITECTS photo : Frank Oudeman Switch Building : apartment + art gallery TKTS Booth, Father Duffy Square, Broadway / 47th Street 2007- Perkins Eastman Transit Hub, Fulton Street, Manhattan 2007-09 Grimshaw Architects with Page Ayres Cowley TWA Building - John F Kennedy International Airport, Jamaica Eero Saarinen, Architect John F Kennedy International Airport Time Warner Center, midtown Manhattan Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) - David Childs photo : Andrew McRae Time Warner Center Manhattan The Trump Building, 40 Wall Street 1929-30 H. Craig Severance with Shreve & Lamb orig. Bank of Manhattan Company Building Trump Tower, Fifth Avenue - Swanke Hayden Connell UN Plaza East 44th St / 1st Avenue 1969-75 Roche-Dinkeloo Architects Crystalline glassy building with facets in plan and section but generally a clean-styled building. The UN Plaza apartments tower was added in 1983. Renamed in 1999 Millennium Hotel New York, UN Plaza United Nations Headquarters (UNO Buildings) Le Corbusier, Oscar Niemeyer, Sir Howard Robertson with Harrison & Abramovitz UN Building New York US Courthouse Annex, 500 Pearl St 1995 Kohn Pederson Fox - KPF Visual & Performance Art Library, Brooklyn - Taller de Enrique Norten Arquitectos West 8th Street Subway Station Project Acconci Studio picture from the architects Manhattan Subway development Whitney Museum, Upper East Side Marcel Breuer, Architect New York museum Whitney Museum of American Art building, Gansevoort St, Meatpacking District, Downtown Manhattan 2008- Renzo Piano Building Workshop Woolworth Building 233 Broadway 1910-13 Cass Gilbert, Architect 241m high, one of the first New York skyscrapers. Designed in a formal, symmetrical Gothic Revival style and originally nicknamed the Cathedral of Commerce. The Woolworth building was the tallest in the world from 1913-30. Refurbished 1977-81 World Trade Center - site New York [destroyed 2001] Minoru Yamasaki, Emery Roth & Sons World Trade Center building World Financial Center 1986 Cesar Pelli, Architect World Trade Centre - New Museum Complex, Ground Zero 2006- Snohetta, Architects / Gehry Partners LLP World Trade Center Tower 4: 150 Greenwich St Maki And Associates image : Maki and Associates, Courtesy of: Silverstein Properties World Trade Center towers W.R. Grace Building, 1114 Sixth Ave, southeast corner of W.43rd St 1974 Skidmore Owings & Merrill Bowing façade due to light regulations, rather than the more normal stepbacks Yankee Stadium 1923 Osborn Architects & Engineers