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HISTORIA DE LOS RASCACIELOS DE NUEVA YORK
Today, in the "Historia de los Rascacielos de Nueva York" blog (in Spanish), we share the article about two buildings of the transition to Modernism in the mid-20th century: the buildings 477 Madison Avenue and 261 Madison Avenue (1953 and 1954).
https://historiadelosrascacielosdenuevayork.blogspot.com/...
AMF Building, 261 Madison Avenue (Robert & Sylvan Bien, 1954).
View looking sotheast of AMF Building, shortly after its completion, in 1954.
Photo: Wurts Brothers
Source: Robert A.M. Stern, Thomas Mellin, y David Fishman: “New York 1960. Architecture and urbanism between the Second World War and the Bicentennial” (New York. The Monacelli Press. Second Edition. 1997).
Midtown Manhattan’s Grand Central district skyscrapers. View looking northeast from Empire State Building. Autumn, 1953.
Photo: Unknown postcard.
The 30-story American Machines and Foundry (A.M.F) Building. 261 Madison Avenue between East 38th to 39th Streets. Robert & Sylvan Bien, architects, 1952-1954.
View looking southeast of the recently completed A.M.F. Building in 1954.
Photo: Wurts Brothers.
Source: Robert A.M. Stern, Thomas Mellin, David Fishman: "New York 1960. Architecture and urbanism between the Second World War and the Bicentennial" (New York. The Monacelli Press. Second Edition. 1997).
