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Published on 12/2/08
Published on 12/2/08
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1 Chrysler Building
2 Woolworth Building
3 Brooklyn Bridge
4 Flatiron Building
5 Hearst Tower
Sights 6–10
6 GE Building
This 40-story Expressionist masterpiece was built in 1931 to be the RCA Victor Company headquarters, but was taken over by General Electric a year later. We love the warm colors of its brick and those crazy bolts of architectural electricity at the very top.
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7 Yacht Club
The limestone facade of this gorgeous 1901 Beaux Arts building erupts into ornate bay windows that look like they were modeled after some 19th-century sunken ship. We wiiish they’d let us inside.…
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8 Alice Austen House
This mansion, dubbed “Clear Comfort” by the Austen family in the 1800s, was built in 1690 (!!!). The restored place is creepy-cool and complemented by expansive views of Manhattan.
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9 Williamsburg Savings Bank Tower
The “Willie” is the tallest (and perhaps most phallic) building in Brooklyn. We’re attracted to its limestone details (lions guarding a padlocked box, squirrels storing nuts, bees and a beehive)—and its large clock. Clock—we said clock.
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10 Guggenheim
Frank Lloyd Wright’s spiralling beauty has been a source of controversy since before its completion in 1959. Fifty odd years later, it remains one of the most adventurous buildings in town (even under all that scaffolding).
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Kerry Steven
Thu, Sep 11, at 04:03am
This is my favorite building, unfortunately whenever I get inside I am turned back by Security, a bit dissapointing after flying from Australia.
ghostof'lectricity
Wed, Oct 10, 07, at 10:36pm
The architectural sage of Oak Park, IL, was certainly a genius (a fact of which he was well aware, and never neglected to remind others) and Fallingwater is a monument to Modernism. But the Guggenheim, I'm sorry, looks like a tiered toilet bowl. As the editors of Mad magazine would have said in the old days, "Yeccch!"
