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Lunch atop a Skyscraper is a black-and-white photograph taken on September 20, 1932, of eleven ironworkers sitting on a steel beam of the RCA Building, 850 feet (260 meters) above the ground during the construction of Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, New York City. It was a staged photograph arranged as a publicity stunt, part of a campaign ...
The Black-and-white Revival was a mid-19th-century architectural movement that revived historical vernacular elements with timber framing. The wooden framing is painted black and the panels between the frames are painted white. The style was part of a wider Tudor Revival in 19th-century architecture. Nikolaus Pevsner describes the movement as a ...
June 23, 1980 [2] Designated NYCL. November 12, 1974 [3] The American Radiator Building (also known as the American Standard Building) is an early skyscraper at 40 West 40th Street, just south of Bryant Park, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It was designed by Raymond Hood and André Fouilhoux in the Gothic and Art Deco ...
Churche's Mansion is one of three buildings in Nantwich to be listed at grade I Nantwich is a market town and civil parish in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England. It contains 132 listed buildings and structures, with three classified as grade I, seven as grade II* and 122 as grade II. In the United Kingdom, the term "listed building" refers to a building or other structure officially designated ...
Capitol Records Building. The Capitol Records Building, also known as the Capitol Records Tower, is a 13-story tower building in Hollywood, California. Designed by Louis Naidorf of Welton Becket Associates, it is one of the city's landmarks. [5] Construction began soon after British music company EMI acquired Capitol Records in 1955, and was ...
Tudor Revival architecture, also known as mock Tudor in the UK, first manifested in domestic architecture in the United Kingdom in the latter half of the 19th century. Based on revival of aspects that were perceived as Tudor architecture, in reality it usually took the style of English vernacular architecture of the Middle Ages that had ...
Highsmith's mostly black-and-white photos of the Willard reaffirmed her eye for detail and solidified her interest in photography, [14] especially or decaying buildings. [15] [12] Highsmith's experience photographing the Willard inspired her to follow Johnson to document life across the United States, [9] [14] including to preserve a historic ...
Seattle, Washington, United States, the most populous city in the Pacific Northwest region of North America, has 118 completed high-rise buildings over 240 feet (73 m), [1] of which 53 are over 400 feet (120 m) tall. [2] [3] An additional 65 high-rise buildings are under construction or undergoing planning and design review, as of 2016. [4]