Nyc Buildings Flashcards
(27 cards)
1
Q
Chrysler Building
A
- 137 east 42 end street
- 1046 ft
- Art deco
- 1930
- tallest brick building in world
- architect is william van allen
2
Q
Empire state building
A
- william f. Lamb
- 1931
- 107 floors
3
Q
Np
A
H
4
Q
Metropolitan museum
A
H
5
Q
Beaux art
A
H
6
Q
Art deco
A
H
7
Q
Greek revivial
A
H
8
Q
Skyscraper
A
H
9
Q
Cast iron architecture
A
H
10
Q
Brownstone architecture
A
H
11
Q
Harlem architecture
A
H
12
Q
Met life tower
A
H
13
Q
Citigroup center
A
East 53rd street
- 1977
- has that diagonal top
14
Q
GE building
A
H
15
Q
Metropolitan life insurance tower
A
H
16
Q
Waldorf Astoria
A
H
17
Q
Singer Building
A
H
18
Q
Seagrams Building
A
S
19
Q
United Nations Building
A
H
20
Q
The plaza residencies
A
J
21
Q
Ny public lirbary
A
H
22
Q
Guggenheim museum
A
H
23
Q
New museum
A
H
24
Q
Ny stock wxchange
A
J
25
Grand Central Terminal
H
26
One world trade center (new)
- 2013
- 1776 feet high
- Address: Vesey, West, Washington and Fulton Streets
- modernism
- 69 office floors
- environmentally sustainable
27
One world trade center (old)
- 1972
- 110 floors
- On 7th August 1974, French high wire artist Philippe Petit made an illegal tightrope walk back and forth between One and Two World Trade Center towers that lasted almost an hour.
