#solow building

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Night view of Midtown Manhattan skyline. View looking southeast from Fort Lee, New Jersey, Autumn, 1973. 

The new Solow Buidling (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1974) and Pan Am building (Walter Gropius-Emery Roth & Sons-Pietro Belluschi, 1963) are at left. Rockefeller Center’s R.C.A. Building (Associated Architects, 1933) and skyscrapers surrounding it are at center. At right can be seen the Uris Plaza (Emery Roth & Sons, 1972) and One Astor Plaza (Kahn & Jacobs, 1972), and above them, the top of the Empire State Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931) fully illuminated, dominates the skyline.

Photo: Unknown.

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Smooth.

09.01.2017

Central Park

New York, NY

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Stark

Solow Building | NYC

Solow

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Aerial view looking northwest of Midtown Manhattan’s skyscrapers. Spring, 1974.

Chrysler and Pan Am buildings are at center. Rockefeller Center buildings with its early 1970s XYZ (Exxon/McGraw-Hill/Celanese buildings) Plan addition are visible at background, left. Solow and General Motors buildings are visible above, just next Central Park.

Photo: Unknown. 

Source: Pala, Enciclopedia Juvenil para: la Vida Futura. Vol. 1. España, Pala, 1974.

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The 50-story Solow Building. 9 West 57th Street near Fifth Avenue. Gordon Bunshaft from Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1970-1974.

The steel skeleton of Solow Building, during its construction, in early Spring, 1971, when reaches the 40th floor. View looking northwest.

Photo: Unknown.

Source: Progressive Architecture, June 1971.

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Times Square area, in foreground, and Rockefeller Center area, at background, right, in this aerial photo looking northeast in October, 1976. 

The One Astor Plaza (Kahn & Jacobs, 1972) are at center, on foreground, and Uris Plaza (Emery Roth & Sons, 1972) are at left. 

The Rockefeller Center’s Exxon (Harrison, Abramovitz & Harris, 1971), McGraw-Hill (Harrison, Abramovitz & Harris, 1972) and Celanesse (Harrison, Abramovitz & Harris, 1974) buildings, with the Art Deco 70-story R.C.A. Building (Associated Architects, 1933) are visible at right, with the black-tinted glass and white marble vertical striped facade of 45-story J.P. Stevens Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1971). Above it, at background, can be seen the 9th West 57th Street or Solow Building (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1974) and General Motors Building (Edward Durell Stone-Emery Roth & Sons, 1968).

Photo: William Fried/Skyviews Survey, Inc.

Source: William Fried, Edward B. Watson. "New York in Aerial Views". New York, Dover Publications, Inc. 1980.

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Aerial view looking southwest of Midtown Manhattan’s skyscrapers with Central Park on foreground. Late Summer, 1986. The Solow Building (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1974), Rockefeller Center’s R.C.A. Building (Associated Architects, 1933), and the Empire State Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, are at left, with the Twin Towers of World Trade Center (Minoru Yamasaki & Associates-Emery Roth & Sons, 1973) at background. The tower under construction, at center, is the CitySpire Center (Murphy/Jahn, Inc., 1987).

Photo: Robert Cameron.

Source: Cameron, Robert “Above New York”. San Francisco, Cameron & Company, 1988.

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Aerial view looking south of Midtown Manhattan skyscrapers, in late Summer, 1972.

Photo: Unknown.

Source: Smart, Ted; Gibbon, David. “U.S.A. A Picture Book to Remember Her By”. London-New York, Crescent Books, 1978.