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The 59-story Citicorp Center. 601 Lexington Avenue, east side between 53rd to 54th streets: Hugh Stubbins & Associates-Emery Roth & Sons, 1974-1977.
Aerial view looking west of the Citicorp Center and its neighborhood, at the time of its dedication. Autumn, 1977.
Photo: Unknown.
Source: Architectural Record, January 1978.
The 59-story Citicorp Center. 601 Lexington Avenue, east side between 53rd to 54th streets: Hugh Stubbins & Associates-Emery Roth & Sons, 1974-1977.
The new Citicorp Center nearing completion in this view looking northeast over Lexington Avenue between 53rd to 54 Street, in Summer, 1977. At left, is the St. Peter's Lutheran Church (Hugh Stubbins & Associates-Emery Roth & Sons, 1977) that be part of the Center; and the modern 641 Lexington Avenue Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1964) behind it.
Photo: Gil Arriaga.
Source: Progressive Architecture, August, 1977.
Aerial view looking east of Midtown Manhattan skyscrapers in February, 1977.
The 51-story black aluminium and black-tinted glass Uris Plaza (Emery Roth & Sons, 1972) are visible at left, foreground and the new 59-story Citicorp Center (Hugh Stubbins Associates-Emery Roth & Sons, 1977) under construction, are visible at top.
The original and new Rockefeller Center’s buildings are visible on the center of the picture, with R.C.A. (Associated Architects, 1933), Exxon (Harrison, Abramovitz & Harris, 1971), McGraw-Hill (Harrison, Abramovitz & Harris, 1972) and Celanesse (Harrison, Abramovitz & Harris, 1974) buildings.
The 54-story One Astor Plaza are visible at right, foreground, with the J.P Stevens (Emery Roth & Sons, 1971) and 1166 Avenue of the Americas (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1974) buildings.
Photo: William Fried/Skyviews Survey, Inc.
Source: William Fried, Edward B. Watson. “New York in Aerial Views”. New York, Dover Publications, Inc. 1980.
Aerial view looking northeast of Midtown Manhattan. March, 1978.
The Rockefeller Center area and Times Square’s skyscrapers are at center, and Citicorp Center are visible at top. The Madison Square Garden, One and Two Penn Plaza buildings; the Empire State Building, Grand Central district’s buildings and the United Nations are visible at right.
Photo: William Fried/Skyviews Survey, Inc.
Source: William Fried, Edward B. Watson. "New York in Aerial Views". New York, Dover Publications, Inc. 1980.
Aerial view looking northwest of Midtown Manhattan. Summer, 1978.
The new 59-story Citicorp Center (Hugh Stubbins Associates-Emery Roth & Sons, 1977) are visible at right.
Photo: William Fried/Skyviews Survey, Inc.
Source: William Fried, Edward B. Watson. "New York in Aerial Views". New York, Dover Publications, Inc. 1980.
The 59-story Citicorp Center. 601 Lexington Avenue, east side between 53rd to 54th streets: Hugh Stubbins & Associates-Emery Roth & Sons, 1974-1977.
The Citicorp Center’s tower, in this view looking southwest from 909 Third Avenue Building. Early 1978.
Photo: Nick Wheeler.
Source: Architectural Record, June, 1978.
The 59-story Citicorp Center. 601 Lexington Avenue, east side between 53rd to 54th streets: Hugh Stubbins & Associates-Emery Roth & Sons, 1974-1977.
The Citicorp Center’s tower, in this view looking south from 54th Street. Early 1978.
Photo: Unknown.
Source: Architectural Record, June, 1978.
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.
The Citicorp Center (Hugh Stubbins & Associates-Emery Roth & Sons, 1977) and its neighborhood in this aerial view looking northwest in Fall, 1978. At left is the First National City Bank Building (Carson & Lundin-Kahn & Jacobs,1961). Behind the Citicorp, at background are the Solow Building (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1974) at center and General Motors Building (Edward Durell Stone-Emery Roth & Sons, 1968) at right.
Photo: Stephen Proehl.
Source: Stephen Proehl. "Over New York". Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980.
Midtown Manhattan as seen from the top of World Trade Center’s South Tower observatory. View looking north in Summer, 1987.
Photo: Unknown.
Source: Michael George “New York Today” (New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1988)
Aerial view looking east of Midtown Manhattan skyscrapers in February of 1977. Rockefeller Center are on the center of the picture, with RCA, Exxon, McGraw-Hill and Celanesse buildings. One Astor Plaza are visible at right, foreground. The new 59-story Citicorp Center under construction are visible above, at left.
Photo: William Fried/Skyviews Survey, Inc.
Source: William Fried, Edward B. Watson. "New York in Aerial Views". New York, Dover Publications, Inc. 1980.
The Citigroup Center: the New York skyscraper that almost fell over.
Photographs from the beautiful Visions of Architecture Flickr.
Architectural rendering of the Citicorp Center (Hugh Stubbin-Emery Roth & Sons, 1977) to be built in Lexington Avenue between East 53rd and 54th Streets. Circa, 1973.
Aerial view of the new 59-story Citicorp Center (Hugh Stubbins-Emery Roth & Sons, 1977). Fall of 1977. View looking west,
Photo: Unknown.
Source: Architectural Record. February 1978.
Construction of Citicorp Center (Hugh Stubbins with Emery Roth & Sons, 1973-1977). December 1975
Source: Architectural Record. August, 1976
