Titlebook: Manhattan Skyscrapers; Eric P. Nash Book 2005Latest edition Princeton Architectural Press 2005 Buildings.Hotel.Manhattan.Skyscraper.argue.

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Woolworth Building, the most successfully realized skyscraper of the eclectic era, but also seems to anticipate the setback designs of the Art Deco skyscrapers. At 55 stories, the Woolworth was the tallest and most recognizable skyscraper in the world for 16 years until it was topped by the Chrysler Building. Many hei

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Municipal Building,he 40-story building, which contains 650,000 square feet of city offices, was designed by the partner William Mitchell Kendall. Charles McKim himself was averse to skyscrapers and the trend towards gigantism and said, “I think the skyline of New York daily grows more hideous.” The Municipal Building

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Equitable Building,y planners were looking for ways to increase the amount of sunlight and air circulation to the streets. You need only stand on Pine Street to understand the problem: the sky is reduced to a narrow stretch of ribbon between the cornice of the 41-story Equitable and the 19-story 100 Broadway, less tha

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American Radiator Building, roots to his early championship of the International Style in America. Hood and his collaborator John Mead Howell’s winning entry for the highly visible Chicago Tribune Building competition in 1922 was a 36-story, 460-foot-tall version of Rouen Cathedral’s Butter Tower in France, complete with eigh

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Ritz Tower,se main concern was to provide the comforts of Park Avenue living to its residents, seems to have done everything in his power to disguise the building’s height. The resulting parfait is easy to find fault with: heavy, classical revival layers alternate with a few starkly bare stretchers thrown in f

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