Midtown Manhattan‘s skyline with Empire States Building. Picture taken from the top floor at The Standard.
07/05/2013
New York: Guggenheim (Not Really There)
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (often referred to as “The Guggenheim”) is a well-known art museum located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City.
The museum was established by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1939 as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, under the guidance of its first director, the artist Hilla von Rebay. It adopted its current name after the death of its founder, Solomon R. Guggenheim, in 1952.
Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the cylindrical museum building, wider at the top than the bottom, was conceived as a “temple of the spirit” and is one of the 20th century’s most important architectural landmarks.
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22/04/2013
New York: GM Building (Not Really There)
The General Motors Building is a 50-story, 705-foot (215 m) office tower in Manhattan, New York City, facing Fifth Avenue at 59th Street .
The building is one of the few structures in Manhattan that occupies a full city block. The building stands on a plot measuring 200 x 420 (84,350 square feet) that was formerly the site of the Savoy-Plaza Hotel.
The tower was designed in the international style by Edward Durell Stone & Associates in association with Emery Roth & Sons.
It was inaugurated in 1968.
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