Posted on 04/23/2005 3:40:54 AM PDT by Pharmboy
There's one similar in downtown Dallas. I had to go look even though I've worked in both Houston and Dallas downtowns.
Here's a URL to downtown Dallas showing the one that's similar to the Chinese Bank.
http://www.dallassky.com/wpeC.jpg
Yep...that's the one I was thinking about. Thanks.
I am impressed by your ability to come up with these great pictures. I have been past the Chanin Building many times -- another beauty that you almost take for granted in the midtown urban splendor. Another quirky one is what used to be called the American Radiator Building on the south side of Bryant Park. And of course that series of dual-tower apartment buildings on Central Park West -- Art Deco heaven. If I read much more of this I'm going to have to get myself transferred back to New York.
"Height isn't everything."
Chrysler building is MY favorite too! Much more character and beauty.
I live in NJ, and I cannot travel that stretch of Turnpike, that looks over at the NYC skyline, without tearing up - still to this day - at the missing buildings. And I am not an emotional type.
I built a 4 foot tall 3D Empire State Building back in '81. It looked good and lasted a while.
It took me a couple of years before I could stop averting my eyes when I drove out of NYC heading south on the Turnpike. It's like it's out of balance. The fact that those towers are not well along to being re-built is still a pain in my heart. How much do you think morale would soar if people could see them again?
"on the other side of the Hudson, the northern portion of New Jersey is still full of woods"
I didn't grow up in NJ but my husband did. We live in Bergen County, just over the Hudson from NYC. Bergen is the most densely populated county in the state, but he says in the '30s there were countless farms here (that grew celery; the land our house is on used to be part of a horse farm).
one of our local photographers (who is really an artist in my view!) is famous for mostly NYC-area bridge views. He has a website where you can see his b&w photographs. Well worth a look! --
www.davefrieder.com
In terms of the pictures, in part, I do photo/data research, thus when great pictures or websites are discovered they are bookmarked, resulting in a rather large collection, plus the more you search the quicker one becomes.Bryant Park is a great hang out, surrounded by a number of fine structures.
I was unaware of this book on the The American Radiator Building (now American-Standard) outlined below.
"The American Radiator Building" (1924; Raymond M. Hood, architect; 1924), The Metropolis of Tomorrow, 1929 Illustrated and edited by Hugh Ferriss (American, 1889-1962) 83.2.972
The idea of the "modern" became more readily accepted and considered a positive force in the 1920s and 1930s. Cultural movements, such as Futurism, looked at technology and the machine as providing solutions to the problems facing the world. Indeed, these years held many challenges, including the worldwide Great Depression, which began in 1929, the rise of fascism in Europe, and the beginning of World War II.
Another view, the entrance to American Standard 'Radiator' Building (click for larger photo).
If this keeps up you will be viewing all this buildings in person! lol
"took me a couple of years before I could stop averting my eyes when I drove out of NYC heading south on the Turnpike"
I still cannot avert my eyes, and I swear sometimes I DO see them.
Instant bookmark! Thanks, he has excellent work and such a nice variety. You are right its art work on film.
I'm glad you like his work! I know Dave, and I've told him he has an artist's eye; well, he gets very humble about it. If you caught the History Channel's show on the George Washington Bridge (I think it was the Modern Marvels series, and I want to say last summer) Dave was one of the people they spoke with on camera. They've been painting the GWB for the past couple of years and sill are not done, so Dave has to wait until it's finished before he can even think of getting permission to photograph it - he likes to climb as high as he can and shoot!
That's pretty funny. I lived in New York when they were building the Twin Towers and all I remember was negative press about them. But I did have New Year's Day brunch, 198,2 at Windows on the World and I shall never forget it.
Wow, I feel like I am taking a walking tour of midtown. Thanks. Another wonderful building entrance is just north of Bryant Park -- that tobacconist building with the wild clock with the Indian above it. I would always pass it on my way to the NY Public Library -- with, of course, the two lions Patience and Fortitude. And let's not even get started on the Woolworth Building (world's tallest before Chrysler, IIRC.) And before Woolworth, I think it was one of the insurance buildings on Madison Square -- NY Life?
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