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What are your ten favorite buildings - skyscrapers, institutions, apartment towers, tenements, galleries, mansions, stations, brownstones, stores, gas stations, firehouses, piers, terminals, temporary structures, even regular old houses - in the five boroughs of New York?

― g@bbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 4 December 2005 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

this is an architecture question, but it's also an interior design question, a civic life question, an experiential question

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 4 December 2005 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

I don't have time to come up with my list right now, but I imagine when I do, the American International (Cities Service) Building will be on it

http://nycjpg.com/prenycjpg/Pictures/cities.service.building.jpg http://www.arch.tu-dresden.de/ibad/Baugeschichte/bilder/new%20york/cities%20service%20bdg%20eingang.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 4 December 2005 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

On a related note, 100 Views of the Empire State Building

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 4 December 2005 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

maybe you need to POX by neighborhood

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 4 December 2005 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

POX Lower Manhattan
POX the Villages and Midtown South
POX Midtown and the Upper Sides
POX Northern Manhattan and the Boroughs

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 4 December 2005 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

1) citicorp building

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/UES/UES1H.jpg

2) TEH CHRYSLER BUILDING

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/MID/MID021-10.jpg (it's a "great buildings" cliche but totally justified)

3) saarinen's terminal 5 (ditto above)

http://data.greatbuildings.com/gbc/images/cid_twa_ny_mce_122_21.jpg

4) at&t "long lines" building

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SOH/Pict0032a.jpg

5) joralemon st. brownstone that camouflages a ventilation system for the 4/5 line (i didn't pick this for the architecture)

http://www.gothamist.com/images/2005_01_brownstonemta.jpg

6 and 7) the blackwell farmhouse and the smallpox hospital on roosevelt island

http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/Roosevelt%20Island/roosev4.jpg

http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/Roosevelt%20Island/smallpoxhospital3.jpg

8) lever house

http://data.greatbuildings.com/gbc/images/cid_1883412.jpg

9) any of the armories

http://www.nyc.gov/html/ddc/gif/prj_pics/arm-bedford.jpg

10) the lipstick building

http://www.dauerer.de/nae_/ny_midtown/lipstick.jpg

― The Great Pagoda of Funn (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 4 December 2005 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

I KNEW that was a JBR post when I saw the Georgian ventilator. Hurrah for the AIA guide!

― Laurel (Laurel), Sunday, 4 December 2005 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

*applause*

where is "joralemon st. "?!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 4 December 2005 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

brooklyn heights.

― The Great Pagoda of Funn (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 4 December 2005 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

it was a coincidence that i chose a smallpox hospital as one of my "pox buildings"!!!

― The Great Pagoda of Funn (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 4 December 2005 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

11) the weathermen house at 18 w. 11th in greenwich village.

http://www.newyorkcitywalk.com/images/nycwweathermen/WeatherUnderground.jpg

― The Great Pagoda of Funn (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 4 December 2005 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

I'll second Citicorp. That's the one which is on HUGE FUCKING STILTS, right? Like, 10 storey high stilts. I was amazed.

Also, for me:

Trump World Tower
http://static.flickr.com/31/59686074_c8cffaa79a.jpg

Hearst Tower
http://static.flickr.com/28/59691955_afed61cfbc.jpg

Trinity Church
http://static.flickr.com/25/59681590_4dcbc46c02.jpg

The Rose Center for Earth and Space
http://static.flickr.com/31/59690392_81c192d697.jpg

The Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, UWS
http://static.flickr.com/31/59690281_43ba0437fc.jpg

― JimD (JimD), Sunday, 4 December 2005 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

this thread is a reminder that i've got to get myself to the new top of the rock observation deck

― kephm (kephm), Sunday, 4 December 2005 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

Those are all great. We can see the Citicorp tower out our bedroom window. We call it the Frog, because at night (at least when its lights are green, which is usually) the top looks like a big grinning green frog mouth, with little red eyes at the corners.

Another favorite is the GE Building:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/017_GEBUILD.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/017_GENE6033.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/570lexington_main3.jpg

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 4 December 2005 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

XP: Okay, can I say something about that? TOP OF THE ROCK was the name of a short-lived all-ages club in mid-Michigan when I was in jr high, and they used to run radio ads ALL THE DAMN TIME with all those '80s sound effects. So every time I hear or read that name, it invades my BRANE in a horrible Radio Announcer voice with electro-echo treatment. Terrible, terrible name.

― Laurel (Laurel), Sunday, 4 December 2005 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of rock, I also like:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/nyc6.jpg

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 4 December 2005 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

(just a couple blocks from me, that)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 4 December 2005 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

ihttp://www.wirednewyork.com/images/duke42.jpg

― kephm (kephm), Sunday, 4 December 2005 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

i like all of these!

― The Great Pagoda of Funn (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 4 December 2005 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

Seagram Building

http://www.thecityreview.com/seagram4.gif

I used to sit in an office that had a great view of its plaza.

― Keith C (lync0), Sunday, 4 December 2005 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

also, the ford foundation building (this atrium!!)

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/MID/004-ford_int2.jpg

― The Great Pagoda of Funn (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 4 December 2005 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

if i had my druthers i'd go back in time and create a city with nothing but insane modernist/international style '50s and '60s buildings.

― The Great Pagoda of Funn (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 4 December 2005 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, I used to work for the company that own that building that Gabbneb posted! I had pictures of it all over my office and I loved it.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 4 December 2005 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

i heart tons of the buildings downtown.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 5 December 2005 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I forgot the Woolworth Building!

http://www.hellonewyork.com/newyork/images/Woolworth%20Building%201908.jpg

― JimD (JimD), Monday, 5 December 2005 00:12 (nineteen years ago)

some of my all-time favorite writing on nyc architecture:
http://www.omnitecturalforum.com/nyc/nycspice.html

― The Great Pagoda of Funn (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 5 December 2005 00:13 (nineteen years ago)

Inside WB:

http://www.lancheros.com/photoblog/Woolworth-Building.jpg

― JimD (JimD), Monday, 5 December 2005 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

The Chapel of St. Woolworth!

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 5 December 2005 00:27 (nineteen years ago)

wait, did gabb just say that he didn't know where joralemon street is? wtf?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 5 December 2005 00:30 (nineteen years ago)

that surprised me too.

― The Great Pagoda of Funn (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 5 December 2005 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

i mean, brooklyn law school, hello.

― The Great Pagoda of Funn (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 5 December 2005 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

speaking of which, the other day i learned a new phrase -- "court street lawyer."

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 5 December 2005 00:40 (nineteen years ago)

i've already said i know nothing about brooklyn

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 5 December 2005 00:54 (nineteen years ago)

The Chapel of St. Woolworth!

I know, it's beautiful. Apparently it's not open to the public any more, but I got to hang around in there for about, ooh, 90 seconds. Before security came over and told me I had to go outside. In the rain. Boo.

― JimD (JimD), Monday, 5 December 2005 01:01 (nineteen years ago)

insane modernist/international style '50s and '60s buildings.

you've read this?

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Monday, 5 December 2005 01:13 (nineteen years ago)

that hearst one really is bad

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 5 December 2005 01:31 (nineteen years ago)

I love it! The way that big 80s style wonky geometrical THING sprouts out of the top of a very nice, normal, old looking building (which you can't really see in my photo) is really surreal and fun. It reminds me of blackpool tower, or of the strange Combine architecture gradually taking over the old eastern european town in Half Life 2.

― JimD (JimD), Monday, 5 December 2005 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

AND it reminds me of the vortex from the end of The Adventure Game!

― JimD (JimD), Monday, 5 December 2005 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

bad

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 5 December 2005 01:43 (nineteen years ago)

you've read this?

i've seen it. le swoonage.

― The Great Pagoda of Funn (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 5 December 2005 01:53 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.thecityreview.com/uws/bway/ansonia.gif

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Monday, 5 December 2005 02:48 (nineteen years ago)

i almost picked the ansonia, but ultimately it was just too vomitorious.

― The Great Pagoda of Funn (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 5 December 2005 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

B-b-but, Stravinsky lived there!

Below: Columbia University's Casa Italiana

http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/tour/images/casa_italiana.jpg

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Monday, 5 December 2005 02:52 (nineteen years ago)

Interior of Nobu

http://images.forbes.com/images/2001/05/30/nobu_400x295.jpg

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Monday, 5 December 2005 02:57 (nineteen years ago)

interior, lever house restaurant

http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/food/reviews/restaurant/restreview031020_1_175.jpg

― The Great Pagoda of Funn (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 5 December 2005 03:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.playermagonline.com/photspots/images/leverhouse1.jpg

http://www.playermagonline.com/photspots/images/leverhouse2.jpg

― The Great Pagoda of Funn (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 5 December 2005 03:03 (nineteen years ago)

Wow!

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Monday, 5 December 2005 03:07 (nineteen years ago)

Much more to add later...but for now...Raymond Hood's Amercian Radiator Building (now the Bryant Park Hotel):

http://www.wirednewyork.com/real_estate/american_radiator_building/images/american_radiator_s.jpg

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Monday, 5 December 2005 03:09 (nineteen years ago)

whenever i'm sure i've had it with new york, someone makes a thread like this.

― The Great Pagoda of Funn (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 5 December 2005 03:15 (nineteen years ago)

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I like the lucerne
http://l.yimg.com/www.flickr.com/images/spaceball.gif

― mizzell, Friday, 21 September 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

did i practice it? uh?

a reference to the famous joke about "how to get to"

― gabbneb, Friday, 21 September 2007 14:23 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.mustseenewyork.com/images/lucerne-hotel.jpg

― mizzell, Friday, 21 September 2007 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

the lucerne was leased by barnard college back in the day, went to a couple of parties there

Douche World Headquarters
http://www.thecityreview.com/ues/thirdave/85e185e.jpg

― gershy, Saturday, 22 September 2007 02:59 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.ecotectureblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/williamsburg-savings-bank.jpg
Can't forget the penis building.

― calstars, Saturday, 22 September 2007 03:04 (eighteen years ago)

frozen *custard*? wtf.

― pisces, Saturday, 22 September 2007 03:11 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/060905/060905_worldtrade7_hlg_11a.hlarge.jpg

the one on the right

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 04:46 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.nyu.edu/classes/finearts/nyc/seaport/image/india3.JPG

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 04:50 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.finfacts.com/irelandbusinessnews/uploads/csmay042007.jpg

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 04:58 (seventeen years ago)

http://z.about.com/d/gonyc/1/5/H/W/entrance.jpg

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 05:01 (seventeen years ago)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2134/1757902738_c78b9a2bd8.jpg

― Porkpie, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 21:35 (seventeen years ago)

Did gabbneb post anything not in midtown?

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 21:54 (seventeen years ago)

did gabbneb post anything in midtown?

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 21:54 (seventeen years ago)

here's some for you

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/MID/MID044-02.jpg

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 21:58 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~julieneg/photos/UN/un_building.jpg

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 22:01 (seventeen years ago)

http://z.about.com/d/gonyc/1/0/V/H/IMG_0249.jpg

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago)

http://img33.picoodle.com/img/img33/5/12/5/f_ny1m_a0bf037.jpg
http://img28.picoodle.com/img/img28/5/12/5/f_ny2m_3dfe047.jpg
http://img02.picoodle.com/img/img02/5/12/5/f_ny3m_10384c8.jpg

― I DIED, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 23:43 (seventeen years ago)

(not in order of preference)

― I DIED, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 23:43 (seventeen years ago)

(and based only on exteriors, only existing buildings)

― I DIED, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 23:44 (seventeen years ago)

the Whitney would not be one of my choices, but nice for it to get some love

― gabbneb, Thursday, 6 December 2007 00:12 (seventeen years ago)

that building's got a messed-up inside

― jergïns, Thursday, 6 December 2007 00:21 (seventeen years ago)

The New Museum is an upside down Whitney

― I DIED, Thursday, 6 December 2007 00:57 (seventeen years ago)

According to Serge Gainsbourg:

Empire States Building
Rockfeller Center
International Building
Waldorf Astoria
Pan American Building
Bank of Manhattan
Time and Life building
American Hotel
CBS Building
RCA Building
First National City Bank

― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 6 December 2007 01:35 (seventeen years ago)

ERR SOUTH OF 14TH STREET

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 6 December 2007 01:37 (seventeen years ago)

everything inside the whitney looks tilty

― bell_labs, Thursday, 6 December 2007 01:38 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.cornershots.com/images/astorama.jpg

Fuck you.

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 22:42 (seventeen years ago)

haha that's the most flattering picture of that building I've ever seen.

― I DIED, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 22:58 (seventeen years ago)

― I DIED, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 22:59 (seventeen years ago)

three months pass...

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/03/23/arts/23ouro600.1.jpg

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/arts/design/23ouro.html

that piece of shit @ astor notwithstanding im pretty psyched abt the no doubt soon to be ded trend toward outrageous celebrity architecture around here. even crazy discordant attention whores like the blue building vibe w/the city way better than boring corporate slag and nostalgic wanna-be fitting-in bricky kitsch.

― jhøshea, Saturday, 22 March 2008 15:52 (seventeen years ago)

that articles just abt residential but obv there been a lot of other great stuff hearst new museum etc.

― jhøshea, Saturday, 22 March 2008 15:55 (seventeen years ago)

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/03/20/arts/23ouro.07.jpg

lol whatre u doin dere buddy?

― jhøshea, Saturday, 22 March 2008 15:59 (seventeen years ago)

in the next few months the economys gonna wipe out a lot of these projects. atlantic yards two blocks from my house is already on its last legs. while i wouldnt be upset of it died just building the stadium and not the towers would be the worst of both worlds. of course right now that looks just like whats going to happen.

― jhøshea, Saturday, 22 March 2008 16:04 (seventeen years ago)

at&t long lines building is so scary. have people heard the urban legend that it goes as far down as it does up?

― mizzell, Saturday, 22 March 2008 16:06 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SOH/Pict0032a.jpg

yah there obv some srsly nefarious non-phone related shit going down in there

new world order conference room in 50th sub-basement?

― jhøshea, Saturday, 22 March 2008 16:20 (seventeen years ago)

like it's supposed to survive some nuclear blast, but why are phones the one thing we want for fallout?

― mizzell, Saturday, 22 March 2008 16:25 (seventeen years ago)

three weeks pass...

OK WTFF

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 13:32 (seventeen years ago)

five months pass...

mostly otm, tho i still kinda like the astor place thing

― gabbneb, Monday, 29 September 2008 17:19 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

PO5

1. American Folk Art Museum

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/UES/109a.jpg

2. Chrysler, natch

3. Blue Condominium

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/LES/BLUE-TSHUMI.jpg

4. Hearst Tower

5. Radiator Bldg

― being rich would be the best (roxymuzak), Monday, 24 November 2008 06:07 (sixteen years ago)

four months pass...

took a trip to look at the folk art museum this week. looks great, i like the way it and moma interact. i didn't realize the slabs on the front were so thin! i went up and touched them, and before that i had imagined them being at least 6 inches thick.

also took a good stare at the flatiron building. have never been a huge fan, but talk about an iconic piece of work. 100x times more interesting in person, standing there looking like it might decide to fold in half but not just yet.

i stopped in moma and looked at all the building proposals they had. zaha hadid O_O

― CHOIRS OF TUPPENCE (roxymuzak), Monday, 13 April 2009 00:25 (sixteen years ago)

also, did the folk art museum move at some point?

― CHOIRS OF TUPPENCE (roxymuzak), Monday, 13 April 2009 00:34 (sixteen years ago)

four years pass...

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8207/8195409488_45017c91c9.jpg

Waterside Plaza!

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8447/7901303670_c80db7a594.jpg

Armani Store!

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3196/3158434490_21b50a3220.jpg

40 Bond Street!

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 13:52 (twelve years ago)

(ugh gotta work on my photo backlog of the last 6 months, there are just tons of wonderful things)

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 13:52 (twelve years ago)

eight years pass...

Architects Agree: The Buildings Around the High Line Are Terrible
https://www.curbed.com/2021/12/high-line-bad-architecture-starchitects.html

(Just saw a picture of Lantern House, jfc)

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 7 December 2021 06:45 (three years ago)

lol. yeah. even as a pretty hardcore and steadfast nyc resident and archi-tourist, i've never even bothered to map all of those things, let alone make a point of going to observe and photograph them. and great point about how much they collectively change the high line's ostensible selling point by turning it into a "canyon."

― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 12:45 (three years ago)

In my non-architects eye I think all of those buildings are interesting looking, and are as much of a draw to the high line as anything else. The Zaha building especially

― calstars, Tuesday, 7 December 2021 12:49 (three years ago)

two years pass...

Without looking it up would anyone know which NYC building that is still standing today was the tallest building in the world for approximately 26 days?

― Josefa, Friday, 2 February 2024 23:40 (one year ago)

er, Woolworth Building?

― henry s, Friday, 2 February 2024 23:44 (one year ago)

Nope, but in a way that is close

― Josefa, Friday, 2 February 2024 23:49 (one year ago)

Bank Of Manhattan? IIRC, it's the building that was competing with the Chrysler Building for world's tallest

― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 3 February 2024 00:17 (one year ago)

That’s right. Now known as 40 Wall Street. It succeeded the Woolworth Building as tallest in the world from its completion on May 1, 1930 till the completion of the Chrysler Building on May 27, 1930.

― Josefa, Saturday, 3 February 2024 00:21 (one year ago)

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