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Art Deco architecture flourished in New York City during the 1920s and 1930s. The style broke with many traditional architectural conventions and was characterized by verticality, ornamentation, and building materials such as plastics, metals, and terra cotta. Art Deco is found in government edifices, commercial projects, and residential ...
The Master Apartments, officially known as the Master Building, is a 27-story Art Deco skyscraper at 310 Riverside Drive, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City. It sits on the northeast corner of Riverside Drive and West 103rd Street. Designed by Harvey Wiley Corbett of the firm Helmle, Corbett & Harrison, in conjunction with ...
Art Deco architecture in New York City. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Art Deco architecture in New York City. This category is for buildings and structures in New York City which exhibit the Art Deco style in their construction.
BellTel Lofts (former New York Telephone Company), Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn, 1930; Betsy Head Memorial Pool, Brownsville, Brooklyn, 1940; Brighton Beach Apartments and Garden Apartments, Brooklyn, 1934; Brooklyn Printing Plant, New York Times, Brooklyn, 1929; Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, 1934
Shown are clear examples of Art Deco and Modern architecture. The building form most closely associated with New York City is the skyscraper, which has shifted many commercial and residential districts from low-rise to high-rise. Surrounded mostly by water, the city has amassed one of the largest and most varied collection of skyscrapers in the ...
New York has played a prominent role in the development of the skyscraper. Since 1890, ten of those built in the city have held the title of world's tallest. [29] [G] New York City went through two very early high-rise construction booms, the first of which spanned the 1890s through the 1910s, and the second from the mid-1920s to the early ...
1211 Avenue of the Americas. 1211 Avenue of the Americas, also known as the News Corp. Building, is an International Style skyscraper on Sixth Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Formerly called the Celanese Building, it was completed in 1973 as part of the later Rockefeller Center expansion (1960s–1970s) dubbed the ...
500 Park Avenue is at the southwest corner of Park Avenue and 59th Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.The building is composed of two land lots. [1] [2] The rectangular land lot under the original building, at the street corner proper, has a frontage of 100 feet (30 m) on Park Avenue to the east and 125 feet (38 m) on 59th Street to the north.