#beekman tower

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Grazie per aver lasciato nel mondo un piccolo segno sghembo.

[rabbitcruiser]

Lower Manhattan

What do you think about my pic?

[architectsupreme]

[manhattan-forever]

8 Spruce Street | New York By Gehry | Beekman Tower

8 Spruce Street, originally known as Beekman Tower and currently marketed as New York by Gehry, is a 76-story skyscraper designed by architect Frank Gehry in Manhattan at 8 Spruce Street, between William and Nassau Streets, in Lower Manhattan, just south of City Hall Park and the Brooklyn Bridge.

The tower stands at the northern edge of the financial district on a tight lot hemmed in by one-way streets. The Pace University building, a wide, Brutalist-style structure completed in 1970, cuts it off from the rest of the city to the north; just beyond are the spaghettilike access ramps of the Brooklyn Bridge. To the west and north are two early landmarks of skyscraper design, Cass Gilbert’s 1913 Woolworth building and McKim, Mead & White’s 1912 Municipal building.

└─► New York By Gehry

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Left to Right: (The Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse). The David N. Dinkins Manhattan Municipal Building. 8 Spruce Street, Beekman Tower or New York by Gehry. 

David N Dinkins Building: Surmounting the central tower is a 20-foot tall gilded statue, Civic Fame, fashioned by sculptor Adolph Weinman. Constructed of sheets of copper with a hollow core, this female figure stands barefoot on a sphere and wears a flowing dress and a crown of laurels to signify glory. In her left hand she holds out a five-pointed crown representing the five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Staten Island. Commissioned by the City to celebrate the five boroughs uniting to become the City of New York.

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Sunset over the Brooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan, New York City by Andrew Mace Via Flickr: Sunset from the Brooklyn-side tower of the Manhattan Bridge (here's the view at night). Clouds to the west blocked any sunset colors, but there was a brief moment where the sky really lit up as the sun peeked through the cloud cover and set right between two towers (so I cranked the aperture to f/18). I bracketed exposures to capture more of the dynamic range of the scene. Exposures blended with Photomatix. I used LiveView to focus, which, if there is enough light, does a better job than phase detection and can control for any back- or front-focusing. Blended exposures (-2/0/+2) / f/18 / 24mm (36mm=)

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Spruce Street (Manhattan, New York)