Titlebook: Manhattan Skyscrapers; Eric P. Nash Book 2005Latest edition Princeton Architectural Press 2005 Buildings.Hotel.Manhattan.Skyscraper.argue.

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Fred F. French Building,ented with brilliant polychromy in reaction to what they saw as the sterile whiteness of classical revival. (Of course, Greek temples in their time were riotously colorful; it was only the leaching effects of time that made them seem so pale.)

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Bush Tower,THE NARROW 32-story Bush Tower was the first skyscraper built after the Zoning Code of 1916, but it had been designed before the code went into effect. Nonetheless, Harvey Wiley Corbett accurately foresaw how architects would respond to the new setback envelope presented by the code.

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Beekman Tower (originally Panhellenic Tower),JOHN MEAD HOWELL’S powerfully vertical Beekman Tower is the lineal descendant of Hood & Howell’s Chicago Tribune Building and Hood’s American Radiator Building, fused with Eliel Saarinen’s “astylar” entry for the Tribune competition. The 23-story tower jumps straight from its three-story base in a series of unbroken piers.

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Flatiron Building,cture of new America still in the making.” With its undulating French Renaissance terra-cotta cladding, the Flatiron seems to swim out of a dream of a classical past toward the future of the steel skyscraper. It is a perfect snapshot of the skyscraper as a Janus-faced evolutionary object, looking back to the past, but anticipating the future.

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Candler Building,g on a midblock site. The architects solved the problem of how to make a tower stand out among lower flanking buildings by setting it off on its own base, a model that neatly adapted itself to the requirements of the setback zoning code of 1916. Because of this organization, the outlines of the Candler predominate over its surface ornament.

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