Rockefeller Center - photo: Andrew McRae, 2007

Manhattan Architecture - News

New York buildings (alphabetical):

9 West 57th Street
-
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, Architects

15 Central Park West
2008
Robert A. M. Stern
up to 35 storeys
202 limestone-clad apartments

40 Bond St, Noho, Manhattan
2007
Herzog de Meuron
Ian Schrager condominium – serviced apartments + townhouses
11 storeys; 23 apartments + 5 townhouses; façade includes green glass tubes

40 Mercer, Soho apartment building
2007
Jean Nouvel
15 storeys: for Andres Balazs

51 Astor Place – tower proposal
2008-
Maki and Associates with Adamson Associates Architects
11 & 13 storeys
Developer: Edward J. Minskoff Equities
mixed-use development – offices/retail

99 Church Street Tower, Lower Manhattan
2008-11
Robert A. M. Stern Architects

Image credit: dbox Courtesy of: Silverstein Properties
Manhattan Tower for Silverstein Properties

111 First Street - mixed-use tower, Jersey City, USA
2007
OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture
52 storeys
For The Athena Group, BLDG Management Co. and The City of Jersey

173/176 Perry Street, Greenwich Village, south Manhattan
1999-2002
Richard Meier Architect
16-storey towers facing Hudson

400 Park Avenue South
2002-09
Christian de Portzamparc

Manhattan skyscraper

500 Fifth Avenue Building, 500 Fifth Avenue
1931
Shreve, Lamb & Harmon Associates
212m high, rectilinear stepped Manhattan tower. Shreve, Lamb & Harmon Associates
of course were the designers of probably the most famous New York skyscraper, the Empire State building

900 Madison Avenue, Manhattan
2006-
30 storeys high
Rejected by New York Landmarks Commission - involved as it was to be built above a historic building, recalling the Hearst Tower, also by Foster & Partners in New York

1001 Fifth Avenue Façade, 1001 Fifth Avenue
1978–80
Philip Johnson, Architect with John Burgee

AT&T Building Madison Avenue
1980–83
Philip Johnson, Architect with John Burgee

Atlantic Yards - proposal, Brooklyn
-
Gehry Partners LLP
Developer: Forest City Ratner

Austrian Cultural Forum Tower
1998-2002
Atelier Raimund Abraham, New York
For Republic of Austria, Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs
25ft wide and 81ft deep; 24 storeys / 278ft high

Bank of Manhattan Company Building: see The Trump Building

Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson
2006
Rafael Vinoly Architects

Photo © Brad Feinknopf
New York College Building

Barry Diller Headquarters, Chelsea
2007
Frank Gehry
10 storeys

Baruch College Academic Complex, E.24th St to E. 25th St
2000
Kohn Pederson Fox - KPF

BLUE Residential Tower, Lower East Side
2007
Bernard Tschumi

Photo: Peter Mauss/ESTO from Bernard Tschumi Architects 071107
New York building

Bronx County Hall of Justice
2006
Raphael Vinoly

image from Rafael Viñoly Architects
Bronx Building

Bronx Museum of the Arts - Expansion, Bronx
2006
Arquitectonica

Brooklyn Arts Tower
2007-
Behnisch Architekten with StudioMDA

image from Behnisch Architekten 140108
Brooklyn Tower

Brooklyn Bridge East River, Brooklyn / New York
1883
John A. Roebling, designer / civil engineer

Brooklyn Children's Museum
2008
Rafael Vinoly Architects

image from Rafael Viñoly Architects
Brooklyn Building

Brooklyn College - West Quad
2007
Rafael Vinoly Architects

image from Rafael Viñoly Architects
Brooklyn College Building

Carnegie Hall Extension
-
Iu & Bibliowicz Architects
Approx. $150m expansion

Carnegie Hall Tower
1986–90
Cesar Pelli, Architect

Chelsea High Line railway park, West Side, Manhattan
2006-
Field Operations with Diller Scofidio + Refro Architects
Elevated rail structure unused since 1980

Chelsea Hotel, 222 W.23rd St
1883-85
Hubert, Pirsson & Co.
became Chelsea Hotel in 1905

Chrysler Building 405 Lexington Avenue
1930
William Van Alen, Architect
Chrysler Building

City Spire Center West 55th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
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Murphy/Jahn Architects
248m high skyscraper
Other buildings by Murphy/Jahn Architects include MesseTurm, 1990 - tallest building Europe at 257m high until 1997 - and the Trump Tower, completed 2005, 180m high in Stuttgart.

Columbia University Extension, West Harlem
2002-
Renzo Piano Building Workshop with SOM

Manhattan Development

Coney Island Center
2007-
Grimshaw (New York office)

Cooper Union Architecture School, East Village
2007-
Morphosis

Corning Glass Works Building 717 Fifth Avenue, Midtown Manhattan
1956-58
Wallace K. Harrison, Architect of Harrison, Abramovitz & Abbe Architects
1993-94
Renovated by Gwathmey Siegel, Architect
109m high; the lobby contains a mural by Josef Albers

D. E. Shaw & Co. Office Building
1992
Steven Holl Architects

D. E. Shaw Research 32nd floor supercomputer lobby
2008
Steven Holl Architects
D. E. Shaw Research

Diane von Furstenberg HQ
2007
WORK Architecture Company

Photo Elizabeth Felicella
Manhattan Studios

Eleven Times Square
2007-
FXFowle Architects
40 storeys

Empire State Building 350 Fifth Avenue
1931
Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, Architects
Empire State New York Building

Fashion Institute of Technology
2005-
ShoP

Five Franklin Place
2008-
UNStudio

Flatiron Building 23rd Street, Broadway; 5th Avenue
1902
Daniel Burnham, Architect

Ford Foundation 320 East 43rd Street, Manhattan
1967
Kevin Roche, John Dinkeloo & Associates

Freedom Tower - Site of World Trade Center
Ground Zero, Lower Manhattan
2004-
Daniel Libeskind Architects + David Childs of SOM Architects
Freedom Tower

Grand Central Station Vanderbilt Avenue
1913
Reed and Stem; Warren and Wetmore
New York station

Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Avenue, East Harlem
1959
Frank Lloyd Wright Architects
Guggenheim New York building

Harlem Park
2008-
Swanke Hayden Connell Architects
Harlem Tower

Harlem Park project
-
Taller de Enrique Norten Arquitectos

Hearst Building Eighth Avenue; 56th - 57th Street
2006
Foster & Partners
Hearst Building New York

Higgins Hall School of Architecture Brooklyn
1997
Steven Holl Architects

HL23, West 23rd St
2008-09
Neil Denari
14 storeys

Hoffman Auto Showroom - now Mercedes-Benz Showroom Manhattan
430 Park Avenue (at 56th Street), New York
1954
Frank Lloyd Wright Architect

Hudson Yards New York - Masterplan for Eastern Rail Yards & Western Rail Yards
2007-
various architects; Steven Holl Architects:

image courtesy of Steven Holl Architects
Hudson Yards New York

IAC Headquarters, Chelsea
2007
Frank Gehry Architect

© 2008 Gehry Partners LLP
InterActiveCorp HQ Manhattan

JP Morgan Chase New York 270 Park Avenue
1957-60
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, Architects
215m high

Javits Convention Center 655 West 34th Street
1986
I M Pei & Partners, Architects
Javits Convention Center
Refurbishment + extension
2007-
until 2008 by Richard Rogers Architects

jetblue – Terminal 5: extension & redevelopment of former TWA Building
2008
Gensler
Location: John F Kennedy International Airport
Works with Eero Saarinen’s Trans World Airlines Flight Center of 1962, closed in 2001

John Jay College of Criminal Justice
1988
Rafael Vinoly Architects

John Jay College of Criminal justice
2007-
SOM

José E. Serrano Center for Global Conservation, Bronx
2007
FXFOWLE

LVMH Building East 57th Street ; Fifth & Madison Avenue
2000
Christian de Portzamparc, Architect

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
1952
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
2006
Heatherwick Studio

Louis Vuitton store facade, New York
2004
Jun Aoki Architect

Manhattan Condominium
1986
Rafael Vinoly Architects

Manhattanville redevelopment plan, Columbia University, West Harlem
2007
Renzo Piano Building Workshop with SOM

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 11 W. 53rd St, Midtown
2004
redevelopment: Yoshio Taniguchi; Executive architect: KPF Architecture
MoMA New York

MoMA Extension + Hotel + Apartments - Tower
2007-
Jean Nouvel
adj. Existing MoMA building
75 storeys

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 Globe Theater
2003
Foster + Partners

New Museum of Contemporary Art - Extension, SoHo, Manhattan
2007
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, Times Square, central Manhattan
2007
Renzo Piano Building Workshop with FXFOWLE; interiors by Gensler

Photo Andrew McRae
The New York Times Company headquarters
52 storeys

One Chase Manhattan Plaza (Chase Manhattan Bank)
1960
Gordon Bunschaft / Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM)

One Liberty Plaza, Financial District, Lower Manhattan
1973
Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM)

226 m high
Manhattan skyscraper

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 50 W57th Street
2001
Rem Koolhaas, Architect / OMA

Photo Armin Linke
New York shop

Pratt Institute Higgins Hall - addition Brooklyn
2006
Steven Holl Architects

Pronovias Store, Fifth Avenue / Madison Avenue
2008
GCA Arquitectos Asociados

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 5th - 7th Avenue; 47th - 51st Street, Midtown
1940
Raymond Hood, Architect
Rockefeller Center New York

Rockefeller Guest House 242 East 52nd Street
1949–50
Philip Johnson, Architect

Schacter Gallery, Charles Lane
2003
Acconci Studio

Manhattan gallery

Seagram Building 375 Park Avenue, New York
1958
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect; Philip Johnson
Seagram building

Seagram Building Lexington Avenue
2007-
Foster & Partners

Staten Island Police Precinct, Staten Island
2011
Rafael Vinoly Architects

image from Rafael Viñoly Architects
Staten Island building

Statue of Liberty Liberty Island, New York
1886
Frederic Bartholdi

Photo Andrew McRae
Statue of Liberty

Storefront for Art and Architecture
1992-93/96
Steven Holl, Architects designed with Vito Acconci

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
1956-62
Eero Saarinen, Architect

Time Warner Center, Columbus Circle, midtown Manhattan
2004
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) 1st Avenue
1953
Le Corbusier, Oscar Niemeyer, Sir Howard Robertson
with Harrison & Abramovitz Architects
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

Manhattan Subway development

Whitney Museum 945 Madison Avenue, Upper East Side
1966
Marcel Breuer, Architect
New York museum

Whitney Museum of American Art building, Gansevoort St, Meatpacking District, Downtown Manhattan
2008-
Renzo Piano

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
1973; 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
2012
Maki And Associates

Image credit: Maki and Associates I 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



New York Architects

New York State Architecture
American Buildings outside Manhattan - USA Buildings, scroll to New York state

New York University building : Cornell University School of Architecture by OMA

Central Park

Times Square

Hearst Building - New York skyscraper : RIBA International Award 2007

Manhattan building no longer standing:
Pennsylvania Station
-
1910; demolished 1963-66
McKim, Mead & White, Architects
Famous building backdrop from numerous American films, Beaux-Arts architecture popular in the early 20th century. Nicknamed Penn Station.



Brooklyn Bridge

Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Manhattan
-
Maya Lin

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