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         CARNEGIE HALL                    STEINWAY HALL                  ART STUDENT'S LEAGUE                    GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM                              CARTIER'S BUILDING

 

     Paramount Builsing New York             Paramount Building New York              Dakota Building New York            Daily            Brooklyn Bridge New York
    PARAMOUNT BUILDING                 ANSONIA BUILDING                                 DAKOTA BUILDING                     DAILY NEWS BUILDING                   BROOKLYN BRIDGE      

 

      title=               Grand Central Terminal New York                       Metropolitan Museum of Art New York                         Grand Central Terminal New York
      NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM                      GRAND CENTRAL                                          METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART                                          GRAND CENTRAL

 

      Brill Building New York               Macy             HSBC Bank Canal Street - New York               Harvard Club New York              Ed Sullivan Theatre New York
              BRILL BUILDING                                            MACY'S                                               HSBC BANK                                          HARVARD CLUB                           ED SULLIVAN THEATRE

 

                              Lenox Lounge - Harlem - New York            New York Public Library             New York City Baths
                                     LENOX LOUNGE HARLEM                              NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY                                  NEW YORK PUBLIC BATHS


 

                                                   Engine 55 Fire Station - New York                         Park Row Building New York
                                                          ENGINE 55                                    ASTOR PLACE SUBWAY                      PARK  ROW BUILDING

 

                                                                                        

 

 

 

 

                          
 

                                                                                                                             CARNEGIE HALL

 West 57th Street at Seventh Avenue. Architects: William B. Tuthill, 1889-91; Office wing, William B. Tuthill 1892-95; Studio wing, Henry J. Hardenbergh, 1896-97.

 Carnegie Hall, one of America’s greatest concert halls, was built by Andrew Carnegie as part of his efforts towards the “improvement of mankind.” Known originally as the Music hall, The Carnegie Hall auditorium opened in 1891 with the American conducting debut of Tchaikovsky and since then has hosted many of the world’s leading musicians. The building, faced in Roman brick and terra cotta and designed in an Italian Renaissance-inspired style, was originally crowned by a mansard roof; this roof was replaced by a full top floor early in the 1890’s. The hall has two major additions: Tuthill’s office tower on West 56th Street and Hardenbergh’s studio tower on West 57th Street. Carnegie hall was saved from demolition in 1960 when it was purchased by the city; it was refurbished in 1981-90 by James Poleshek & Partners.

More information on  Carnegie Hall  and Carnegie Hall - Wikipedia
                                                                                                                    

                                                                                                       STEINWAY HALL
109-113 West 57th Street. Architects Warren &Westmore 1924-25


Founded in 1853, the world famous Steinway Piano Company built this 16 storey building in 1924-25. Inspired by Greek sources, the limestone has a music-themed sculptural group at the base by Leo Lentelli and a 4-storey tower ornamented with Ionic colonnades and urns. In addition to serving as the firm’s headquarters, with showrooms, offices, and a recital hall, the building offered leased space to cultural organisations active in the immediate area. Sold to the Manhattan Life Insurance Company in 1958, it was reacquired by Steinway & Sons in 1999.

More information on  Steinway Hall New York
                                                                                                        
 

                                                                                    ART STUDENT'S LEAGUE - NEW YORK

                                                                                                            (Formerly) AMERICAN FINE ARTS SOCIETY

 215 West 57th Street. Architect Henry J. Hardenbergh, 1891-92


With its design adapted from a hunting lodge erected by Francis I in the forest of Fontainebleau in the early 16th century, this building is one of several New York City landmarks that reflect Hardenbergh’s interest in Northern European architecture. The American Fine Arts Society was incorporated in 1889 by the New York Architectural League to raise funds for a building that would contain offices, galleries, and studios for the three organizations. Each originally had space in the building; it is now used solely as the Art Student’s League.

More information: Art Student's League Website

 

                                                                                                                 

                                                                                                GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM 

1071 Fifth Avenue. Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright, 1956-59

Established by Solomon R. Guggenheim as a repository of non objective (i.e. abstract) art, the Guggenheim Museum is housed in one of the most acclaimed buildings of the 20th century. The museum is the major New York City work of the American master Frank Lloyd Wright and is often considered to be the crowning achievement of his later career. The building’s organic form, a reversed spiral, was intended as a reflection of the natural shapes to be found across the street in Central park. The interior, with its vast open space and spiralling cantilevered ramp, punctuated by exhibition alcoves, is among Wright’s most spectacular. In the basement is a circular auditorium also designed by the architect. In 1989-92 an addition by Charles Gwathmey was constructed and Wright’s building was restored.

More information: Guggenheim Museum - New York - Website

                                                                                            

                                                                                               CARTIER'S - NEW YORK
 

651 Fifth Avenue at East 52nd Street.  Architect Robert W. Gibson

 The Vanderbilts once ruled these Fifth Avenue blocks with three elaborate mansions on its west side. To insure that commerce wouldn’t intrude, William K. Vanderbilt sold the land at the corner of 52nd Street to fellow millionaire Morton F. Plant, with the stipulation that it be used for a residence for twenty-five years. After the Vanderbilts themselves moved on, Plant asked to have the covenant lifted. Instead, Vanderbilt bought the house for $1 million, much more than it was worth at the time, and rented it to Cartier’s for $50,000 a year, far and away the highest rent anywhere on Fifth Avenue.

More information: Cartier's

                                                                                                          
 

                                                                                       PARAMOUNT BUILDING

 1501 Broadway.  Architect: Rapp & Rapp (1926-27)
 

The theatre architects Rapp & Rapp, designed this dramatically massed skyscraper (at its completion, the tallest in the Times Square area) as offices for Paramount Pictures, as a home for the paramount Theatre(demolished), and as an advertisement for the paramount Corporation. The motion picture company’s trade mark, a mountain encircled by a five- pointed stars, is echoed in the mountain like massing of the building and its surmounting four-faced clock, on which the hours are marked by five-pointed stars.

More information: New York Architecture - Paramount Building

                                                                                  
 

                                                                                                ANSONIA HOTEL
 

2101-2119 Broadway  Architect: Paul E. M. DuBoy, 1899-1904

 The largest and most exuberant of the multiple dwellings in the Beaux-Arts style erected on the Upper West Side, the Ansonia was built as an apartment hotel by W>E>D> Stokes, a major developer in the area. Stokes advocated all-masonary fireproof construction, including soundproof partitions between floors and apartments, a feature that has attracted many distinguished musicians, singers and conductors.
 

                                                                                       

                                                                                         DAKOTA APARTMENTS
 

1 West 72nd Street   Arichitects: Henry J Hardenbergh, 1880-84

One of New York’s best-known buildings, the Dakota was erected at a time when the Upper West Side was sparsely populated. The building was commissioned by Edward S. Clark, president of the Singer (Sewing Machine) Manufacturing Company and an active West Side developer. Hardenberg’s interest in Northern European architecture is evident in the building’s somewhat Germanic design, with its picturesque gables rising above Central park. In plan, the Dakota has a central courtyard with an entrance in each corner. A cleaning and restoration of the façade in the 1990’s revealed a cream-coloured shade of the brick and the beautifully carved stone detailing.

 

THE DAILY NEWS BUILDING


220 e 42nd Street  Architects: Raymond Hood

The Daily News was founded in 1919, and by 1925 and was a million seller. It was known, rather scathingly, as “the  servant girl’s bible,” for its concentration on scandals,
 celebrities, and murders, its heavy use of illustration. Over the years it has stuck to what it does best, and the formula paid off handsomely. It revealed stories such as the
romance of Edward VIII and Mrs.

 Simpson, and has become renowned fur its punchy  headlines that sum up the mood of the moment.Its circulation figures are still among the highest in the United States.  Its headquarters, designed by Raymond Hood in 1930, has rows of brown and black brick alternating with windows to create a vertical effect. Hood’s lobby is familiar to  many as that of the Daily  Planet in the 19130s Superman movies. It includes the world’s largest interior globe,  bronze lines on the floor  indicate the direction of world cities and the position of the planets. Al night, the intricate detail over the front entrance of the building is lit from within by neon. The newspaper’s offices are now on West 33rd Street, and the future of the building is in some doubt.

 

 

                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                   

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

                  

                        

 

                            

                            

                                                               

 

                                      

 

 

    

                  

 

                     

 

              

 

           

 

       

 

         

      

                          

     

 

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