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The United Nations Headquarters. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Drive between 42nd to 48th streets and United Nations Plaza (First Avenue) Wallace K. Harrison, 1948-1952 (Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer as consultant architects).
The new UN Secretariat Building from 44th Street, between Second and First Avenue, in Tudor City. View looking east, in spring, 1950.
Photo: Samuel H. Gottscho/Gottscho-Schleisner.
Source: Progressive Architecture, June 1950.
The United Nations Headquarters. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Drive between 42nd to 48th streets and United Nations Plaza (First Avenue) Wallace K. Harrison, 1948-1952 (Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer as consultant architects).
Aerial view looking northwest of United Nations Headquarters and its neighborhood with Midtown Manhattan new modern office skyscrapers at background. The twin towers of 860-870 United Nations Plaza (Harrison & Abramovits) are at right. Summer, 1970.
Photo: The Scheller, Co.
The Rockefeller Center original complex. Fifth to Sixth avenues between West 48th to 51st Streets. The Associated Architects (Reinhard & Hofmeister; Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray; Raymond Hood, Godley & Fouilhoux; Edward Durrell Stone). 1931-1940.
The new 70-story R.C.A. Building (Associated Architects, 1933) dominates the new Rockefeller Center complex, in this view looking west from the top of 444 Madison Avenue Building. Summer, 1933. The 32-story R.K.O. Building (Associates Architects, 1932) and Radio City Music Hall are visibles at right.
Photo: Rockefeller Center, Inc.
Source: Balfour; Alan. “Rockefeller Center. Architecture as Theater” (New York. McGraw-Hill. 1978).
The 39-story United Nations Secretariat Building. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Drive and United Nations Plaza (First Avenue) between 42nd to 44th streets. Wallace K. Harrison, 1950 (Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer as consultant architects).
Detail of the glass facade of the Secretariat Building. 1950. View looking east.
Photo: Louis B. Schiveck.
Source: Architectural Record, May, 1950.
Don’t miss the last part of the especial about United Nations Secretariat in the blog (in Spanish) “Historia de los Rascacielos de Nueva York”.
The 39-story United Nations Secretariat Building. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Drive and United Nations Plaza (First Avenue) between 42nd to 44th streets. Wallace K. Harrison, 1950 (Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer as consultant architects).
Construction of the Secretariat Building in Autumn, 1949. View looking northwest.
Photo: United Nations Photo/Flickr.
Don’t miss the new photogallery of the construction the United Nations Secretariat on the second part of the Chapter One of the special about United Nations Headquarters in the blog (in Spanish) “Historia de los Rascacielos de Nueva York”.
United Nations Headquarters. Franklyn Delano Roosevelt Drive and United Nations Plaza (First Avenue) between 42nd to 48th streets. Wallace K. Harrison, 1947-1952 (Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer as consultant architects).
Rendering of United Nations Headquarters and its impact on Midtown Manhattan skyline. Rendering by Hugh Ferris. 1947.
Photo: Unknown.
Source: Architectural Record, August, 1947.
Don’t miss the first part (in Spanish) of the serie about the history of United Nations Headquarters, in the blog “Historia de los Rascacielos de Nueva York”. The first part is from creation of U.N. to design phase.
The 39-story United Nations’ Secretariat Building. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Drive and 42nd Street. Wallace K. Harrison, 1948-1950 (Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer as consultant architects).
The UN Secretariat Building’s windowless marble south facade. Autumn, 1950.
Photo: Unknown.
Source: Architectural Forum, November, 1950.
Midtown Manhattan’s skyline. View looking southwest from East River, in autumn, 1950.
The new 39-story United Nations Secretariat Building (Wallace K. Harrison, 1950) are on left, with the steel skeleton of Conference Building (Wallace K. Harrison, 1951) under construction just below it). At the center are the Dayly News Building (Hood & Howells, 1930) toppled with WPIX Channel 11 TV tower (until 1952); followed by Chanin Building (Sloan & Robertson, 1928) and Chrysler Building (William Van Allen, 1930).
Photo: Unknown.
Source: “Geografía Universal Marin”, Vol. 6. Barcelona, Editorial Marin, 1975.
The 39-story United Nations’ Secretariat Building. Franklyn Delano Roosevelt Drive and 42nd Street. Wallace K. Harrison, 1948-1950 (Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer as consultant architects).
The UN Secretariat Building during its construction. View looking northeast from First Avenue and 41st Street. Autumn, 1949.
Photo: Unknown.
Source: Architectural Record, April 1950.
Don’t miss a new article (in Spanish) about the evolution of Manhattan skyline during 1949 in the blog, “Historia de los Rascacielos de Nueva York”.
Midtown Manhattan looking southwest from East River. Autumn, 1960.
The United Nations’s complex with the 39-story Secretariat Building (Wallace K. Harrison, 1950) are at left. The Continental Can (Harrison & Abramovitz, 1961) under construction, the Daily News Building (Hood & Howells, 1930) and Pfizer Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1961) under construction are at center, with the Empire State Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931) above them. The Socony Mobil (Harrison & Abramovitz, 1956), Chanin (Sloan & Robertson, 1928) and Chrysler (William Van Allen, 1930) buildings are at right.
Photo: Alfred Mainzer, Inc.
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Aerial view looking southwest of Rockefeller Center complex (Associated Architects: Reinhard & Hofmeister; Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray; Raymond Hood, Godley & Fouilhoux; Edward Durrell Stone, 1931-1940), in Summer, 1933.
The recently completed 70-story R.C.A. Building (Associated Architects, 1933) are at center, with the 32-story R.K.O. Building and Radio City Music Hall (Associated Architects, 1932) are at right. The cleared site on foreground are the site for the future International Building.
Photo: Rockefeller Center, Inc.
Source: “Album of American History. Vol. 5. 1917-1953”. New York. Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1960.
Aerial view looking northwest of Midtown Manhattan skyscrapers, in late Summer, 1949.
The steel skeleton for United Nations Secretariat (Wallace K. Harrison, 1950) under construction are visible at left, on foreground, and the site for future U.N. headquarter buldings are at center. The Rockefeller Center are at left, at background.
Photo: Unknown.
Source: Progressive Architecture, January 1950.
The United Nations’ Secretariat skyscraper (Wallace K. Harrison, 1950) and Midtown Manhattan skyline in this view looking southwest from Welfare (Roosevelt) Island in Autumn, 1950.
At center are the Empire State (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931) and Daily News (Hood & Howells, 1930) buildings and the Chanin (Sloan & Robertson, 1928) and Chrysler (William Van Allen, 1930) are visible at far right.
Photo: Bruce Elkus.
Source: Architectural Forum, November, 1950.
The 33-story Rockefeller Center’s Esso Building (Manhattan’s first great skyscraper that built since the end of World War II). 75 Rockefeller Plaza, between Fifth Avenue and Avenue of the Americas, and west 51st to 52nd streets. Carson & Lundin, Architects. Wallace K. Harrison, Consultant Architect; 1946-1947.
Plastic model of final design for the new Esso Building at Rockefeller Center. Late, 1945.
Photo: Unknown.
Source: Architectural Forum, May 1946.
The 102-story Empire State Building. 350 Fifth Avenue, between West 33rd to 34th streets. Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1930-1931.
Aerial view looking northeast of the Empire State Building and its neighborhood in Spring, 1957. Grand Central district skyscrapers can be seen on background, left, showing the Chrysler tower (William van Allen, 1930) and the recently completed Socony-Mobil Building (Harrison & Abramovitz, 1956). The United Nations Secretariat (Wallace K. Harrison, 1950) are visible at background, right.
Photo: American Airlines.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica. Vol. 16. Chicago, Britannica, Inc. 1970.
The United Nations Headquarters (Wallace K. Harrison, 1949-1952) on foreground, with the Secretariat tower (Wallace K. Harrison, 1950). On background, can be seen the Empire State Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931) at left and the Daily News Building (Hood & Howells, 1930), in this aerial view looking southwest, in Spring, 1952.
Photo: New York Convention & Visitores Bureau
Source: "Nueva York, Ciudad Maravillosa", from: "El Mundo Pintoresco" Vol. VIII (Buenos Aires, W.M. Jackson, Inc. 1969).
The 39-story United Nations’ Secretariat Building (Wallace K. Harrison, 1950), in foreground, and the 102-story Empire State Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931), on the left, background, in this view looking southwest from East River, in Spring, 1951.
Photo: Len Sirman Press
Source: "Monitor, Enciclopedia Salvat para Todos" Vol. 1. (Pamplona, España, Salvat, 1965).
