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Asia Art Archive (AAA) is a nonprofit organisation based in Hong Kong that documents the recent history of contemporary art in Asia within an international context. AAA incorporates material that members of local art communities find relevant to the field, and provides educational and public programming.
The amount of office space in New York City increased by 92% in the late 1920s. [5]: 49–50 Zoning regulations had major impacts on the design of buildings. The proliferation of ever-larger skyscrapers like the 40-story Equitable Building spurred New York City's passage of the US's first citywide zoning code, the 1916 Zoning Resolution. [6]
Rosario Candela (March 7, 1890 – October 3, 1953) was an Italian American architect who achieved renown through his apartment building designs in New York City, primarily during the boom years of the 1920s.
[1] [2] The book discusses the works of prominent New York architects of the 1920s and 1930s, Rosario Candela and J. E. R. Carpenter, who helped shape whole blocks in Manhattan. Their buildings are now the standard residentials of the New York's elite. [3]
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.
The Rockefeller Apartments is a residential building at 17 West 54th Street and 24 West 55th Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Designed by Wallace Harrison and J. André Fouilhoux in the International Style , the Rockefeller Apartments was constructed between 1935 and 1936.
The Century is an apartment building at 25 Central Park West, between 62nd and 63rd Streets, adjacent to Central Park on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City.It was constructed from 1930 to 1931 at a cost of $6.5 million and designed by the firm of Irwin S. Chanin in the Art Deco style.
The Noonan Plaza Apartments is a 300-dwelling, garden apartment that occupies much of the book bounded by West 168th Street and Ogden and Nelson Avenues. It rises between six and eight stories, with facades on three sides and a central 15,000-square-foot courtyard garden bounded by a one-story arcade at the corner of Nelson and 168th.