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Published on 10/14/08
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1 Chrysler Building
2 Woolworth Building
3 Brooklyn Bridge
4 Flatiron Building
5 Hearst Tower
Sights 6–10
Cliché, yes. But how could we resist this classic beauty? William Van Alen’s Art Deco masterpiece owed little to previous styles. A Jazz Age paean to the automobile, its 1,048 feet culminate in a stainless steel spire representing a series of overlapping hubcaps. It held the title of world’s tallest building for only a few months before the Empire State Building surpassed it. We still love this one better, though.
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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!"
