Aerial view looking southeast of Midtown Manhattan with the Grand Army Plaza hotels and office buildings on foreground. Circa 1925.
Photo. Fairchild Aerial Surveys.
Source: Cameron, Robert "Above New York". San Francisco, Cameron & Company, 1988.
The 52-story Sollow Building. 9 West 57th Street, near Fifth Avenue between 57th to 58 street. Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. 1969-1974.
Aerial view lookinbg northwest of the new Solow Building in the Autumn of 1973 showing the new Squibb Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1972) at left and the Plaza (Henry J. Hardenbergh, 1907) at right with Central Park at background.
Photo: Ezra Stoller/ESTO.
Source: Carol Herselle Krinsky. “Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill”. New York, The Architectural History Foundation-MIT Press, 1988.
The new 52-story dark black-tinted glass and travertine marble “bell-bottom” Solow Building. 9 West 57th Street. Gordon Bunshaft, architect from Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1969-1974. Night view looking southwest of Solow Building from Fifth Avenue at Grand Army Plaza in the Spring of 1974. The old Plaza Hotel (Henry J. Harbenbergh, 1907).
Photo: Ezra Stoller/ESTO.
Source: Stern, Robert. A.M. Mellins, Thomas. Fishman, David. “New York 1960. Architecture and urbanism between the Second World War and the Bicentennial” (New York. The Monacelli Press. 1997).