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View looking up from the adjacent street. The Long Lines Building was designed by architect John Carl Warnecke in the Brutalist style and completed in 1974. [8] Its style has been praised, with The New York Times saying it is a rare building of its type in Manhattan that "makes sense architecturally" and that it "blends into its surroundings more gracefully" than any other skyscraper nearby.
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 ...
In the 1970s, four other low-level buildings were built as part of the World Trade Center complex. [28] [29] A seventh building was built in the mid-1980s. [30] [31] The entire complex of seven buildings had a combined total of 13,400,000 square feet (1,240,000 m 2) of office space. [28] [29] [32]
The New York Times Building sits a block from Times Square in New York City. The 52-story building boasts double layers of floor-to-ceiling glass walls, so the sun serves as a major source of ...
53 West 53 (also known as 53W53 and formerly known as Tower Verre) is a supertall skyscraper at 53 West 53rd Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, adjacent to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
The Big Bend is a proposed megatall skyscraper for Billionaires' Row in Midtown Manhattan. The skyscraper, which was designed by the New York architecture firm Oiio Studio in 2017, would be the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere at 2,000 feet (610 m) if it were built. Reception to the proposal has been mixed.
The proposed "Big Bend" skyscraper -- the world's longest building -- would straddle Billionaires' Row in New York City.
One Times Square (also known as 1475 Broadway, the New York Times Building, the New York Times Tower, the Allied Chemical Tower or simply as the Times Tower) is a 25-story, 363-foot-high (111 m) skyscraper on Times Square in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.