Rockfeller Center
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Title
Rockfeller Center
Agent
Max Abramovitz (American architect, 1908-2004)
Raymond M. Hood (American architect, 1881-1934)
Wallace Kirkman Harrison (American architect, 1895-1981) and others
Location
New York, New York, United States
Date
1931-1940 (creation)
20th century
Style Period
Art Deco
Cultural Context
American
Worktype
multistory buildings
high-rise buildings
skyscrapers
buildings
office buildings
complexes
mixed-use developments
Material
stone: sandstone
Technique
construction
Subject
Architecture and City Planning
Description
view of plaza fountain, depicting "Prometheus" by Paul manship
Principal architect was Raymond Hood, working with and leading three architectural firms, ( Reinhard & Hormeister
Corbett, Harrison, & MacMurray (1929-1935)
Godley & Fouilhoux ), on a team that included a young Wallace Harrison. The firms were known as The Associated Architects. Rockefeller Center was acclaimed as a pioneering concept of commercial, multilevel, superblock planning
its Art Deco skyscrapers, including the RCA Building, are grouped around a sunken plaza. Many are embellished with landscaped terraces. Harrison and Abramovitz were later responsible for the more mundane towers (1959-1974) on the Sixth Avenue side of the complex.
Rights
© Saif Haq
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ID
Haq1147
Source
Saif Haq
Collection
Citation
Abramovitz, Max, Raymond M. Hood, and Wallace Kirkman Harrison, Rockfeller Center, 1931-1940 (creation), New York, New York, United States, TTU Arch Design Images. Image Source: Saif Haq. https://archimage.lib.ttu.edu/items/show/19072.
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