THE Manhattan School of Music, on 122nd Street between Claremont Avenue and Broadway, offers a kaleidoscope of urban architecture -- a richly styled Edwardian building from 1910, a sleek 1930's Art Deco addition by the architects of the Empire State Building, an ultramodern 1960's expansion and a nuanced 2001 residence hall that responds to the older structures, though not slavishly.
In 1912, the Beaux-Arts styled New York State Department of Education Building opened on Washington Avenue near the Capitol.
Raymond Hood was the guiding force in the design of Rockefeller Center, and the architect of its central building -- surely one of the greatest "skyscrapers" ever built -- the old RCA Building, presently styled the GE Building.
Behind him, the plaza slopes down to the Retiro train station, a grand French-styled building that has seen much better days.
Nicknamed the Walkie-Talkie, the self-styled "building with more up top" is proof that form follows finance: 20 Fenchurch is practically a diagram of the forces that created it.
The new English Gothic revival-styled building faced east on Howard Street and was dedicated on February 1 , 1875
Clad in gray Indiana limestone, topped with a copper pyramid roof, and standing on a site running 174 feet east – west on Jackson Boulevard and 240 feet north – south on LaSalle Street, the 605 feet tall art deco-styled building opened on June 9 , 1930
But soon Roth was designing more conventionally styled apartment buildings, expanding a practice that included the San Remo and Beresford apartment buildings on Central Park West and the Ritz Tower apartments at 57th and Park.
Jenney and his protégé Louis Sullivan styled their buildings to accentuate verticality, with delineated columns rising from base to cornice.
Initially, Chicago still preferred palazzo-styled buildings with large light courts in the centre, not least because they remained the most profitable designs.
Sometimes termed the products of the Chicago school of architecture, these skyscrapers attempted to balance aesthetic concerns with practical commercial design, producing large, square palazzo-styled buildings hosting shops and restaurants on the ground level and containing rentable offices on the upper floors.
