Manhattan Skyscrapers

by Nash, Eric

• ISBN13: 9781568981819
• ISBN10: 1568981813
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Pr

Summary

The city of New York is the city of skyscrapers. Every first-time visitor to Manhattan experiences the awe of gazing up at the soaring stone, steel, and glass towers of Wall Street or Midtown, and wonders how those structures came to be built. Manhattan Skyscrapers answers the question by presenting the 75 most significant tall buildings that make up the city's famous skyline. From Louis Sullivan's Bayard-Condict Building of 1898 on Bleeker Street to the Conde Nast tower currently rising above Times Square, Manhattan Skyscrapers lavishly presents over a hundred years of New York's most interesting and important tall buildings. Author Eric P. Nash profiles familiar skyscrapers such as the Woolworth Building, the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, the World Trade Towers, the AT&T (now Sony) Building, and the Seagram Building, while also championing several often-overlooked yet significant structures, such as the McGraw- Hill, the Metropolitan Life Insurance, and the Fred F. French Buildings. Nash's writing strikes an elegant balance between history, archi-tectural evaluation, and intelligent guidebook. For each building, Nash identifies the building style, gives the overall profile and image of the building, and discusses its construction; also included are quotes from the buildings' architects and the architectural critics of the time. Each skyscraper is illustrated with full-page color photo-graphs by noted photographer Norman McGrath as well as architectural drawings and plans, archival images of the original interiors, postcards, and other ephemera. Manhattan Skyscrapers is essential reading-or an ideal gift-for anyone interested in the buildings that make New York the ultimate skyscraper city.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	xi
John Kriskiewicz
American Tract Society Building	1	(2)
Bayard-Condict Building	3	(2)
Park Row Building	5	(2)
Flatiron Building	7	(4)
West Street Building (now 90 West Street)	11	(2)
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower	13	(2)
Bankers Trust Company Building (originally 14 Wall Street)	15	(2)
Woolworth Building	17	(4)
Municipal Building	21	(2)
Candler Building	23	(2)
Equitable Building	25	(2)
Bush Tower	27	(2)
Shelton Towers Hotel (now Marriott East Side Hotel)	29	(2)
American Radiator Building	31	(2)
Ritz Tower	33	(2)
Paramount Building	35	(2)
Barclay-Vesey Building	37	(2)
Fred F. French Building	39	(2)
Beekman Tower (originally Panhellenic Tower)	41	(2)
Tudor City	43	(2)
Hearst Magazine Building (originally International Magazine Building)	45	(2)
Chanin Building	47	(2)
One Fifth Avenue	49	(2)
Helmsley Building (originally New York Central Building)	51	(2)
Fuller Building	53	(2)
Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower (now Republic National Bank)	55	(2)
Downtown Athletic Club	57	(2)
Daily News Building	59	(2)
40 Wall Street (originally the Bank of Manhattan Company Building)	61	(2)
Chrysler Building	63	(4)
San Remo Apartments (originally San Remo Hotel)	67	(2)
Riverside Church	69	(2)
120 Wall Street	71	(2)
500 Fifth Avenue	73	(2)
Empire State Building	75	(4)
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel	79	(2)
McGraw-Hill Building	81	(2)
General Electric Building (originally RCA Victor Building)	83	(2)
City Bank Farmers Trust Company Building	85	(2)
Cities Service Building (now 70 Pine Street)	87	(2)
One Wall Street (originally Irving Trust Company Building)	89	(2)
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, North Building	91	(2)
Rockefeller Center	93	(4)
100 Park Avenue	97	(2)
United Nations Secretariat	99	(4)
Lever House	103	(2)
Seagram Building	105	(4)
Time & Life Building	109	(2)
Union Carbide Building (now Chase Manhattan Bank)	111	(2)
Chase Manhattan Plaza	113	(2)
Pan Am Building (now Met Life Building)	115	(2)
CBS Building	117	(2)
Silver Towers (originally University Plaza)	119	(2)
Marine Midland Bank Building (now 140 Broadway)	121	(2)
General Motors Building	123	(2)
One Astor Plaza	125	(2)
XYZ Buildings: Exxon, McGraw-Hill, and Celanese Buildings	127	(4)
W. R. Grace Building	131	(4)
1 and 2 World Trade Center	135	(2)
One Liberty Plaza (originally U.S. Steel Building)	137	(2)
1 and 2 UN Plaza	139	(2)
Citicorp Center	141	(2)
Trump Tower	143	(2)
IBM Building	145	(2)
AT&T Building (now Sony Building)	147	(2)
Marriott Marquis Hotel	149	(2)
Lipstick Building	151	(2)
425 Lexington Avenue	153	(2)
Worldwide Plaza	155	(2)
1585 Broadway (originally Solomon Equities Building)	157	(2)
Bertelsmann Building (originally 1540 Broadway)	159	(2)
712 Fifth Avenue	161	(2)
World Financial Center	163	(4)
Four Seasons Hotel	167	(2)
4 Times Square (Conde Nast Building)	169	(2)
Bibliography	171	(1)
Glossary	172	(2)
Credits	174