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The RCA Building in December 1933 during the construction of Rockefeller Center. The photograph depicts eleven men eating lunch while sitting on a steel beam 850 feet (260 meters) above the ground on the sixty-ninth floor of the near-completed RCA Building (now known as 30 Rockefeller Plaza) at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, New York City, on September 20, 1932.
The building was designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and built from 1930 to 1931. Its name is derived from "Empire State", the nickname of the state of New York. The building has a roof height of 1,250 feet (380 m) and stands a total of 1,454 feet (443.2 m) tall, including its antenna.
Photo of the Manhattan Company Building c. 1930 The building was designed by lead architect H. Craig Severance , associate architect Yasuo Matsui , and consulting architects Shreve & Lamb . [ 11 ] [ 15 ] [ 16 ] Moran & Proctor were consulting engineers for the foundation, [ 11 ] [ 17 ] the Starrett Corporation was the builder, [ 18 ] [ 19 ] and ...
The Bradbury Building is an architectural landmark in downtown Los Angeles, California, United States.Built in 1893, [1] the five-story office building is best known for its extraordinary skylit atrium of access walkways, stairs and elevators, and their ornate ironwork.
According to one account, Bourke-White wanted to live in the building for the duration of the photo shoot, but the only person able to do so was the janitor, so she was instead relegated to co-leasing a studio with Time Inc. [294] In 1930, several of her photographs were used in a special report on skyscrapers in the then-new Fortune magazine ...
The art deco Niagara Mohawk Building in Syracuse, New York, on Tuesday, January 18, 2022. Photo by Ted Shaffrey. The Niagara Mohawk Building is an art deco classic building in Syracuse, New York. The building was built in 1932 and was headquarters for the Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, what was "then the nation's largest electric utility ...
The building is a National Historic Landmark and has been designated a city landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. The building is also a contributing property to the Central Park West Historic District. The Dakota occupies the western side of Central Park West between 72nd and 73rd streets. It is largely square in ...
550 Madison Avenue (also 550 Madison; formerly known as the Sony Tower, Sony Plaza, and AT&T Building) is a postmodern–style skyscraper on Madison Avenue between 55th and 56th Streets in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, New York, U.S. Designed by Philip Johnson and John Burgee with associate architect Simmons Architects, the building is a 647-foot-tall (197-meter), 37 ...