#skyscrapers.

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Aerial view looking northwest of Lower Manhattan's Financial District new skyscrapers. Autumn, 1970.

The recently completed One Battery Park Plaza (Emery Roth & Sons, 1970) and the new One State Street Plaza (Emery Roth & Sons, 1971) under construction appears above Battery Park and the tint tower of Seamen's Church Institute ). The steel skeleton of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center (Minoru Yamasaki Associates-Emery Roth & Sons, 1973) under construction rises above them.

The 50-story bee hive like aluminum and glass curtain-wall facade of One New York Plaza (William Lescaze Associates-Kahn & Jacobs, 1969) rises at center, above East River, and shows the damage of August 5th, 1970 fire. The new 41-story Two New York Plaza (Kahn & Jacobs, 1971) are nearing completion and the steel skeleton of the future 55 Water Street tower begun to rises up. Just above them can be seen the towers of 40 Wall Stret (Henry Craig Severance-Yasuo Matsui, 1930), City Bank Farmers Trust (Cross & Cross, 1931) and behind them, the modern One Chase Manhattan Plaza (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1961) building. The Cities Service (Clinton & Rusell, 1932) building are visible at far right.

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Aerial view looking southwest of Midtown Manhattan in the fall of 1965. The Rockefeller Center buildings dominated with the 70-story R.C.A. Building (Associated Architects, 1933) dominates the cityscape, at center. The modern Thisman Building (Carson & Lundin, 1957) are visible at right. All the modern skyscrapers that visible at bakground, on right, are on the Avenue of the Americas: Time & Life (Harrison & Lundin, 1959), Sperry Rand (Emery Roth & Sons, 1963), Equitable Life (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1961), CBS (Eero Saarinen & Associates, 1965), J.C. Penney (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1965) and the recently completed ABC-TV (Emery Roth & Sons, 1965).

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Source: "Libro 1966 Personal". Barcelona, Difusora Internacional. 4a. Edición, 1971.