#interchem building

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Midtown Manhattan looking northwest from Empire State Building in march, 1971.

The new 54-story One Astor Plaza (Kahn & Jacobs, 1972) and the 50-story Uris Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1972), both under construction can be seen at left, over Times Square.

At center, the steel skeleton for New York Telephone Building (Kahn & Jacobs, 1974) start to rises up between Union Dime Savings Bank (Kahn & Jacobs, 1958) and Interchem (Emery Roth & Sons, 1969) buildings, over Avenue of the Americas. Just above them, can be seen the new J.P. Stevens Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1971), with the new Rockefeller Center's Mc-Graw Hill (Harrison. Abramovitz & Harris, 1972) and Exxon (Harrison, Abramovitz and Harris, 1971) buildings under construction, and another modern buildings on Avenue of the Americas.

At right, foreground, just above Bryant Park are the steel skeleton of 50-story W.R. Grace Building (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1972) and the Rockefeller Center's R.C.A. Building (Associated Architects, 1933) are visible at background.

Photo: Unknown photographer.

Photo colorized by A.I.

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Midtown Manhattan looking south from R.C.A. Building, in august, 1970.

The Empire State Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931) dominates the skyline with the Twin Towers of World Trade Center (Minoru Yamasaki Associates-Emery Roth & Sons, 1973) under construction are at background. The Interchem Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1969) and the new J.P. Stevens Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1971) under construction are at right, foreground, and the steel skeleton of One Astor Plaza (Kahn & Jacobs, 1972) under construction are at background, at far right.

Photo: Hiroshi Isogai.

Source: HARRIS, Jr., Arthur; ISOGAI, Hiroshi (1973), "New York" This Beatiful World. Tokyo, Kodansha International.

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Aerial view of Midtown Manhattan skyline looking north. Autumn, 1970.

The Empire State Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931) dominates the ever changing skyline with Rockefeller Center's R.C.A. Building (Associated Architects, 1933), and the 500 Fifth Avenue tower (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931) just behind it. The withe skyscraper at right, backgorund is the General Motors Building (Edward Durell Stone-Emery Roth & Sons, 1968).

The steel skeletons of One Astor Plaza (Kahn & Jacobs, 1972) and Uris Plaza (Emery Roth & Sons, 1972) towers, both under construction, are visibles on the extreme left of the picture. On the center, just at left of the Empre State, the steel skeleton of the Rockefeller Center's Exxon Building (Harrison, Abramovitz & Harris, 1971) under construction dominates the new Avenue of the America's office towers corridor with the Interchem Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1969) and the new J.P. Stevens Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1971) nearing completion.

Photo: Unknown.

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Midtown Manhattan skyscrapers. View looking north from the 86th floor observatory of the Empire State Building. Spring, 1968.

Buildings under construction at left, are, the 45-story Interchem Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1969) at foreground, and the 50-story Burlington House Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1969) at background. In the center, at background the Rockefeller Center complex with R.C.A. Building (Associates Architects, 1933) and the new 50-story General Motors Building (Edward Durell Stone-Emery Roth & Sons, 1968) nearing completion dominates the skyline. At foreground is the 58-story 500 Fifth Avenue Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931). At right are the new ITT North America Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1967), the 41-story Bankers Trust Annex Building (Emery Roth & Sons,1968) under construction, and the Union Carbide Building (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1960, demolished in 2021). On foreground are the steel skeleton for the new Emigrant Savings Bank Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1969) under construction and the 42-story 330 Madison Avenue Building (Kahn & Jacobs, 1964).

Photo: Unknown (amateur Kodachrome slide)

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The 45-story Interchem Building. 1133 Avenue of the Americas, west side between 43rd to 44th streets. Emery Roth & Sons, 1967-1969.

View looking northwest of Interchem Building shortly before its completion, near Christmas, 1968.

Photo: Wurts Brothers/Museum of the City of New York.

Source: Museum of City of New York.

NOTE: The image was made with screenshots in the MS-Paint program. It is only shown for educational and non-profit purposes, giving credit to its real owners.

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Aerial view of Midtown Manhattan looking north. Late Spring, 1970. 

The 102-story Empire State Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931) are visible on the foreground, at center. Above it are the Rockefeller Center and Avenue of the Americas’ skyscraper corridor with the J.P Stevens Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1971) and Exxon Building (Harrison & Abramovitz, 1971) shows under construction. The steel skeleton under construction on the extreme left is the One Astor Plaza (Kahn & Jacobs, 1972). The General Motos Building (Edward Durell Stone-Emery Roth & Sons, 1968) are visible on the top of the picture, at center. Park Avenue skyscrapers with the Pan Am Building (Walter Gropius_Emery Roth & Sons-Pietro Belluschi, 1963) are visible at right,

Photo: Laurence Lowry-Rapho Guillumette.

Source: “El Mundo en que Vivimos. Vol. 5. América”. (Barcelona, Spain, Instituto Gallach de Librería y Ediciones, S.L.,1973).

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New skyscrapers under construction and recently completed on Avenue of the Americas, in this night view looking northwest from Empire State Building. Spring, 1972.

The New York Telephone Building (Kahn & Jacobs, 1974) under construction are at left, foreground, and the new Uris Plaza (Emery Roth & Sons, 1972) are at background at north to Times Square. The Interchem (Emery Roth & Sons, 1969) and J.P. Stevens Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1971) are at center, with the steel skeleton of Rockefeller Center’s Celanese Building (Harrison, Abramovitz & Harris, 1974) under construction, rises up between both towers. The new W.R. Grace Building (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1972) nearing completion, are at rigth foreground, with the steel skeleton of 1166 Avenue of the Americas (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1974) rises up behind it. The new Rockefeller Center’s McGraw-Hill (Harrison, Abramovitz & Harris, 1972) and Exxon (HArrison, Abramovitz & Harris, 1971) buildings are visible at background.

Photo: Hugo Harrang.

Source: Gran Enclopedia Focus, Vol. 9. Barcelona, Argos Vergara, 1987.

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Midtown Manhattan looking northwest from the intrerior of 40th floor of Interchem Building, 1133 Avenue of the Americas. Summer, 1971.

The new 45-story J.P¨. Stevens Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1971) are visible on the right with new 51-story McGraw-Hill Building (Harrison, Abramovitz & Harris, 1972) under construction.

Photo: Unknown.

Source: Architectural Record, November, 1971.