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 Chrysler Building |
The Chrysler Building
was completed in 1930 and was for a few months the world's tallest
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| Art Deco was popular in the 20s and 30s. It uses stepped forms ("setbacks") in buildings, rounded corners and decorative elements. Designs are characterized by bold outlines with a vertical emphasis, geometric and zigzag forms, and the use of new materials. The style represented a "new era," after several decades when period revivalism was the favored form of expression in architecture.
Setbacks: In 1916 New York City passed the nation's first zoning law to ensure adequate light and air into the canyon-like streets of the metropolis. Zoning required buildings to set their facades back from the street as they grew higher. This form, combined with new technologies and the streamlined aesthetics of modern art, led to the Art Deco skyscraper.
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With the destruction of the World Trade Center, the Empire State
Building became again the city's tallest skyscraper.
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Beaux-Arts
architecture (1890-1920) celebrates the monumental forms of the Roman republic. But
unlike the simpler Greek Revival style, Beaux-Arts is more ornamental
and grandiose. It is characterized by order and symmetry and favours
arches, balconies and balustrades, grand staircases, columns, garlands
and statues.
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 Trump Tower |
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Trump Tower, 1983, is a sleek residential high-rise clad in dark reflective glass with setbacks beginning near of the base of the tower which make room for a neat little outdoor garden. The building features a multi-story shopping atrium with a five-story waterfall.
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 The art deco Sherry-Netherland Hotel, 1927, seen from Central Park |
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 Roy Lichtenstein's Mural with Blue Brushstroke dominates the atrium lobby of the Equitable Center |
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The Ford Foundation Building,
1967, pioneered the
spacious, green, full-height atrium. Supported by an exposed steel
structure, the building takes the form of a glass box enclosing an
interior atrium which rises the full height of the building to a
skylight. Offices are located around this central court with a view into
the subtropical garden. |
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 Tudor City, completed in 1928, built in Tudor-style. Based on a plateau between First and Second Ave. it seems isolated from the busy streets of Midtown. |
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The 39-story UN Building,
1947-53,
based
on plans by Le Corbusier,
is the first example in New York of the new International Style
in skyscrapers which emerged after the Depression and World War II. The International Style is characterized by a simple, geometric boxlike form set in an open plaza, the absence of ornaments, setbacks and historical references, and a glass curtain wall.
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 The Dakota Building, 1884. This early luxury apartment building was built by the architect of the Plaza Hotel in a mixture of German Gothic, French Renaissance and English Victorian styles. |
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Strivers Row. The two rows of brownstones on 138th Street and 139th Street in Harlem were designed for upper middle class whites and constructed between 1891 and 1893, but in the 1920s and 1930s, they started attracting wealthy and influential African Americans, hard-working professionals, or "strivers," who gave the houses their current name. The row houses on these two blocks reflect the architecture of the period. The northern part of 139th Street group expresses the neo-Italian style of McKim, Mead and (Stanford) White, an architecture firm that dominated New York at the turn of the 19th century. | |||
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Brownstone is a common name for different types of sandstone. They were a very common building material in New York City, especially in the post civil war period, and a cheap alternative to limestone or marble. Over time, the term "brownstone" came to refer to the entire category of 19th century town houses - whether faced with stone or brick. Brownstones are rows of residential town houses characterized by high stoops and elegant cornices initially in italianate style. They are also found in for instance Greenwich Village and Brooklyn Heights. By the end of the 19th century, brownstone had lost its popularity as a building material.
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