#fuller building

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Corner house

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The Fuller Building situé sur la 57e rue et Madison Avenue dans le quartier de Midtown Manhattan à New York. Conçu par Walker & Gillette entre 1928 et 1929. - source Mary Tampakopoulou.

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The iconic Fuller Building at the intersection of Broadway and Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, is better known as the Flatiron due to its shape. Twenty stories tall when completed, it was about a year old when this photograph was made in 1903.

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The 40-story Fuller Building. 595 Madison Avenue northeast corner with 57th Street. Walker & Gillette, architects, 1929-1930.

View looking northeast of the new Fuller Building shortly after its completion. Early, 1930.

Photo: Irving Underhill.

Source: Stern, Robert A.M. Gilmartin, Gregory. Mellins, Thomas. "New York 1930. Architecture and Urbanism between the Two World Wars". Nueva York. Rizzoli. 1987.

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Flatiron Building, Manhattan

The Flatiron Building, originally the Fuller Building, is a triangular 22-story, 285-foot (86.9 m) tall steel-framed landmarked building located at 175 Fifth Avenue in the Flatiron District neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan, New York City. Designed by Daniel Burnham and Frederick Dinkelberg, it was one of the tallest buildings in the city upon its 1902 completion, at 20 floors high, and one of only two "skyscrapers" north of 14th Street – the other being the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, one block east. The building sits on a triangular block formed by Fifth Avenue, Broadway, and East 22nd Street – where the building's 87-foot (27 m) back end is located – with East 23rd Street grazing the triangle's northern (uptown) peak. As with numerous other wedge-shaped buildings, the name "Flatiron" derives from its resemblance to a cast-iron clothes iron. 

The building, which has been called "one of the world's most iconic skyscrapers and a quintessential symbol of New York City", anchors the south (downtown) end of Madison Square and the north (uptown) end of the Ladies' Mile Historic District. The neighborhood around it is called the Flatiron District after its signature building, which has become an icon of New York City.The Flatiron Building was designated a New York City landmark in 1966, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1989.

The Flatiron Building was designed by Chicago's Daniel Burnham as a vertical Renaissance palazzo with Beaux-Arts styling. Unlike New York's early skyscrapers, which took the form of towers arising from a lower, blockier mass, such as the contemporary Singer Building (built 1902–08), the Flatiron Building epitomizes the Chicago school conception. Like a classical Greek column, its facade – limestone at the bottom changing to glazed terra-cotta from the Atlantic Terra Cotta Company in Tottenville, Staten Island as the floors rise – is divided into a base, shaft, and capital.

Early sketches by Daniel Burnham show a design with an (unexecuted) clockface and a far more elaborate crown than in the actual building. Though Burnham maintained overall control of the design process, he was not directly connected with the details of the structure as built. That task was performed by his designer Frederick P. Dinkelberg, a Pennsylvania-born architect in Burnham's office, who first worked for Burnham in putting together the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, for which Burnham was the chief of construction and master designer. Working drawings for the Flatiron Building, however, remain to be located, though renderings were published at the time of construction in American Architect and Architectural Record.

Source: Wikipedia

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Flatiron Building

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New York street scene, July 1903. This appears to be Fifth Avenue and Broadway with the recently completed Flatiron Building (then known as the Fuller Building) in the background.

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▲ South side of the Flatiron Building ▲ 

Most everyone pays attention to the north side (understandably) but the south side is pretty cool as well.

The Flatiron Building, originally the Fuller Building is a triangular 22-story, 285-foot (87 m) tall steel-framed landmarked building locatedat the intersection of Broadway and 175 Fifth avenue on 23rd street, about 10 blocks south of the Empire State Building.

When famed architect Daniel Burnham’s design for the George A. Fuller’s company’s office building was completed in 1902, it was named after Fuller himself, the Fuller building. But, New Yorkers gave this building a name of their own, the Flatiron Building, because of its similarity to the household appliance, a flat iron.  

With the intersection of Broadway and 5th Avenue forming a triangle, there was no room for a traditionally shaped building if the developer wanted to use all of the real estate available.

└─► The north side of the Flatiron

└─► The Flatiron Clock