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Book Synopsis York in 50 Buildings by : Andrew Graham
Download or read book York in 50 Buildings written by Andrew Graham and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the rich and fascinating history of York through an examination of some of its greatest architectural treasures.
Book Synopsis A History of New York in 27 Buildings by : Sam Roberts
Download or read book A History of New York in 27 Buildings written by Sam Roberts and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the urban affairs correspondent of the New York Times--the story of a city through twenty-seven structures that define it. As New York is poised to celebrate its four hundredth anniversary, New York Times correspondent Sam Roberts tells the story of the city through bricks, glass, wood, and mortar, revealing why and how it evolved into the nation's biggest and most influential. From the seven hundred thousand or so buildings in New York, Roberts selects twenty-seven that, in the past four centuries, have been the most emblematic of the city's economic, social, and political evolution. He describes not only the buildings and how they came to be, but also their enduring impact on the city and its people and how the consequences of the construction often reverberated around the world. A few structures, such as the Empire State Building, are architectural icons, but Roberts goes beyond the familiar with intriguing stories of the personalities and exploits behind the unrivaled skyscraper's construction. Some stretch the definition of buildings, to include the city's oldest bridge and the landmark Coney Island Boardwalk. Others offer surprises: where the United Nations General Assembly first met; a hidden hub of global internet traffic; a nondescript factory that produced billions of dollars of currency in the poorest neighborhood in the country; and the buildings that triggered the Depression and launched the New Deal. With his deep knowledge of the city and penchant for fascinating facts, Roberts brings to light the brilliant architecture, remarkable history, and bright future of the greatest city in the world.
Book Synopsis The vanished buildings of York by : Darrell Buttery
Download or read book The vanished buildings of York written by Darrell Buttery and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Vanished Buildings of York by : Darrell Buttery
Download or read book Vanished Buildings of York written by Darrell Buttery and published by . This book was released on 1995-09 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Saving Place written by Donald Albrecht and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From irrefutable icons (Broadway theaters, Central Park, SoHo, Carnegie Hall), to lesser-known structures including the Cyclone rollercoaster on Coney Island, roughly one hundred street lampposts, and seven cast-iron street clocks throughout the city—much of what makes New York City unique owes its existence to the New York City Landmarks Law. Born out of the destruction of McKim, Mead & White’s monumental Pennsylvania Station, the Landmarks Law established the parameters for protecting the places that represent New York City’s rich cultural, social, political, and architectural history. Today there are more than 31,000 landmark properties woven into daily life, many located in 111 historic districts in Manhattan, the Bronx, Staten Island, Brooklyn, and Queens—including 1,347 individual buildings, 117 interior landmarks, and 10 scenic landmarks. Published in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Landmarks Law, and a major exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York, Saving Place tells its story in essays by notable New Yorkers and preservationists Robert A.M. Stern, Adele Chatfield-Taylor, Andrew S. Dolkart, Françoise Bollack, Anthony C. Wood, and Claudette Brady: its first successes (the Astor Library, now home to The Public Theater), its failures (the Metropolitan Opera House), and its most dramatic turning points, including the Grand Central Terminal case decided in the U.S. Supreme Court in 1978. It evaluates contemporary additions to landmarks (the Hearst Tower, the Jewish Museum), and new buildings in historic districts including Greenwich Village and South Street Seaport. The book includes specially commissioned portfolios of views of historic districts and landmark buildings by the distinguished Dutch architectural photographer Iwan Baan. Encompassing all five boroughs, from Bedford-Stuyvesant to Jackson Heights, these images capture the landmarks at work, historic markers that play a vital role in the fabric of their neighborhoods today. What is built, what is demolished, what is preserved—all determine the character and future of the city. A veritable roll call of the places that we could not imagine life without, and an incredible invocation of the many that are gone already, Saving Place will appeal to anyone inspired by New York City.
Book Synopsis Hull in 50 Buildings by : Paul Chrystal
Download or read book Hull in 50 Buildings written by Paul Chrystal and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the rich and fascinating history of the city through an examination of some of its greatest architectural treasures.
Book Synopsis One Thousand New York Buildings by :
Download or read book One Thousand New York Buildings written by and published by Black Dog & Leventhal Pub. This book was released on 2002 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diversity and richness of New York's architecture come alive in this one-of-a-kind, information-packed photographic tour of New York City. 1,000+ duotone photos. 18 maps.
Book Synopsis The Empire State Building by : Ronald A. Reis
Download or read book The Empire State Building written by Ronald A. Reis and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was to be a structure like no other: the largest and tallest skyscraper in the world. Initial plans for the Empire State Building called for an Art Deco masterwork to rise 1,000 feet, with 80 stories of rental space. The high-rise was to completely fill the 84,000-square-foot site of the former Waldorf-Astoria, then New Yorks most opulent hotel. Hopes were high that the Empire State Building would accelerate Midtown Manhattans stride toward commercial prominence, pulling more business uptown. Built in the early years of the Great Depression, during which one out of four New Yorkers was out of work, the Empire State Buildings construction was thought by many to be a foolish undertaking. Yet, it was completed under budget and ahead of schedule, and the commercial colossus has stood through good times and bad as a symbol of daring, beauty, and American invention.
Book Synopsis The New York Building Plan Co.'s Illustrated Catalogue of Examples of Buildings by : New York Building Plan Company
Download or read book The New York Building Plan Co.'s Illustrated Catalogue of Examples of Buildings written by New York Building Plan Company and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Window on the Park written by and published by Images Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book features photographs and architectural details of some of New York's finest apartments on Central Park.'--Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis New York City Building Zone Resolution by : New York (N.Y.). Board of Estimate and Apportionment
Download or read book New York City Building Zone Resolution written by New York (N.Y.). Board of Estimate and Apportionment and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis 50 Buildings You Should Know by : Isabel Kuhl
Download or read book 50 Buildings You Should Know written by Isabel Kuhl and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ancient Jordan to modern-day Manhattan, this world tour of great buildings offers a course in architectural history for readers of all ages. The 50 buildings presented here in chronological order represent the most compelling, intriguing, and awe-inspiring structures from all over the world. Full color.
Book Synopsis Manhattan Skyscrapers by : Eric Nash
Download or read book Manhattan Skyscrapers written by Eric Nash and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 1999-08 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis New York's Architectural Holdouts by : Andrew Alpern
Download or read book New York's Architectural Holdouts written by Andrew Alpern and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique pictorial history examines over 50 examples of owners or tenants of buildings who refused to sell or vacate their property to make way for office buildings, apartment houses & other projects, among them four holdouts that hindered construction of Rockefeller Center.
Book Synopsis Boak & Paris / Boak & Raad by : Annice M. Alt
Download or read book Boak & Paris / Boak & Raad written by Annice M. Alt and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-10-25 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boak & Paris may not be a household name in most households, but this architectural firm was key to the development of apartment buildings that are among the finest in New York City. Annice Alts book analyzes this firm and its exceptional buildings in detail and places them within the context of speculative real estate development. The book provides an important contribution to the understanding of the vernacular buildings that create the streetscapes that New Yorkers love and that give the city its unique character. Andrew S. Dolkart Director, Historic Preservation Program, Columbia University School of Ar chitecture, Planning and Preservation; author of the award-winning The Row House Reborn: Architecture and Development in New York City, 19081929 and Morningside Heights: A History of its Architecture and Development" Alts thoroughly researched book provides new information and insights into the architectural work of Boak & Paris and Boak & Raad. It is a surprise to discover the wealth of buildings, particularly the apartment houses that they are responsible for. Many of the Boak & Paris projects from the 192030s employ interesting architectural terra-cotta elements. To revisit the apartments from the 1950s and 60s is a fascinating exercise. Fine period images are of great value in elucidating this quest. Susan Tunick President, Friends of Terra Cotta; author, Terra-Cotta Skyline: New Yorks Architectural Ornament New Yorks architecture buffs can rejoice: Annice Alt has completed her monograph on Boak & Paris. The personal approach she takes in her writingand extensive quotations from original sourcesbring us into the adventure of her research, where we meet not just Russell Boak and Hyman Paris, but also such august architectural personages as Emery Roth and Gaetan Ajello, along with the clientssuch as plumber-turneddeveloper Sam Minskoffwho kept them busy during the middle decades of the 20th century, turning Manhattan into an island of cliff dwellers. Anthony W. Robins Architectural historian; author Grand Central Terminal: 100 Years of a New York Landmark and a guide t o New York City Art Deco architecture (forthcoming) Boak was an unsung architect who was incapable of doing a bad drawing, a bad design. No one is comparable. Boak just had taste, he had class. Elihu Rose Vice Chairman, Rose Associates, Inc.
Download or read book The U.N. Building written by Aaron Betsky and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it was completed in 1952 along New York's East River, the United Nations Building stood as a symbol of world humanitarianism, a beacon of unity after the Second World War. More than 50 years on, the 39-story building is regarded as one of the pinnacles of mid-century modernism. Its magnificent public spaces and assembly halls, as well as its impressive collection of art by Chagall, Henry Moore and many others make it one of the most visited sites in New York. On the celebration of the United Nations' 60th anniversary, and before a long period of renovation, this book presents a portrait of this fascinating building. Specially commissioned photography and an illuminating text bring alive the spaces which have played host to the historic speeches, debates and gatherings that have been central to the world's development since 1945.
Book Synopsis 1000 New York buildings by : Bill Harris
Download or read book 1000 New York buildings written by Bill Harris and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
