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World Financial Center. Battery Park City. Cesar Pelli Associates, 1981-1988.

Construction for 41-story 1 World Financial Center (1985), on foreground, and the 51 story 3 World Financial Center (1985), on background, in this view looking northwest from West Street, in spring, 1985. Above, at right the small pictures show the architectural models for 4 World Financial Center (1986) and 2 World Financial Center (1988).

Photo: Wolfgang Hoyt/ESTO.

Source: Progressive Architecture, july 1985.

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World Financial Center. Battery Park City. Cesar Pelli Associates, 1981-1988.

Construction for 34-story 4 World Financial Center (1986), and the 51 story 3 World Financial Center (1985), in this view looking northeast from Hudson River, in spring, 1985, with Woolworth Building (Cass Gilbert, 1913) at right.

Photo: Wolfgang Hoyt/ESTO.

Source: Progressive Architecture, july 1985.

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Aerial view looking southwest of Midtown Manhattan skyscrapers in Summer, 1985.

Photo: Unknown.

Source: Bill Harris. "New York. A picture memory". New York, Crescent Books, 1990.