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Wilshire Grand Center is a 1,100-foot (335.3 m) skyscraper in the financial district of downtown Los Angeles, California, occupying the entire city block between Wilshire Boulevard and 7th, Figueroa, and Francisco streets. Completed in 2017, it is the tallest building (if including the spire) in the United States west of Chicago.
The Skyscraper Museum also celebrates the architectural heritage of New York and the forces and people who created New York's skyline. [2] Before moving to the current and permanent location in Battery Park City in 2004, the museum was a nomadic institution, holding pop-up exhibitions in four temporary donated spaces around Lower Manhattan ...
The history of skyscrapers in New York City began with the construction of the Equitable Life, Western Union, and Tribune buildings in the early 1870s. These relatively short early skyscrapers, sometimes referred to as "preskyscrapers" or "protoskyscrapers", included features such as a steel frame and elevators—then-new innovations that were used in the city's later skyscrapers.
53 West 53 (also known as 53W53 and formerly known as Tower Verre) is a supertall skyscraper at 53 West 53rd Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, adjacent to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
The 50- and 60-story residential towers, meanwhile, nod to the modernist New York City buildings of the 1950s and 1960s thanks to their striped glass and aluminum facades.
945 Madison Avenue, also known as the Breuer Building, is a museum building on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. The Marcel Breuer -designed structure was built to house the Whitney Museum of American Art ; it subsequently held a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Frick Collection .
New York 1959 Demolished 2008 Veterans Memorial Coliseum: Portland, Oregon: 1960 Also known as Portland Memorial Coliseum. [9] One Chase Manhattan Plaza: Manhattan, New York: 1961 New York City Landmark [10] [11] BMA Tower: Kansas City, Missouri: 1961 Bruce Graham: Also known as One Park Place. Telus Tower: Montreal: 1962 Gordon Bunshaft ...
The ground rumbled Friday beneath New York City, home to famous skyscrapers like the Empire State Building and One World Trade Center. The 4.8 magnitude quake on Friday morning was centered about ...