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The fully illuminated architectural model of the 59-story Pan Am Building (Walter Gropius-Emery Roth & Sons-Pietro Belluschi, 1963) to be inserted by photomontage in a night view looking southwest of Midtown Manhattan’s Grand Central district, in early, 1961. The Union Carbide Building (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1960) and the Chrysler Building (William Van Allen, 1930) are at left.

Foto: Pan American World Airways.

Fuente: Nester’s Map and Guide Corp.

The new 38-story Seagram Building. 350 Park Avenue, east side between 52nd and 53rd Streets. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe-Phillip Johnson-Kahn & Jacobs, 1956-1958. 

Night view looking southeast of Seagram Building, fully illuminated, in late, 1957, shortly before its completion. The Waldorf-Astoria hotel (Schultze & Weaver, 1931) are visble at right, and the new Grolier Building (Sylvan & Robert Bien, 1958), under construction, are visible at left, background.

Foto: Andreas Feininger/LIFE Magazine.

The 102-story Empire State Building. 350 Fifth Avenue, west side between 33rd to 34th streets. Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1929-1931.

View looking southwest of the Empire State Building, during its construction, from Chrysler Building’s obsevation room. Summer, 1930.

Photo: George Eastman House.

Source: National Geographic Magazine. February, 1989.

The Empire State Building and Twin Towers of World Trade Center juxtaposition in this afternoon aerial view looking south. Late 1978.

Photo: Stephen Proehl.

Source: Stephen Proehl. “Over New York”. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980.

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Been feeling very nostalgic lately.

Glass facades on 46th. Strreet between Park (left) and Third Avenue (right), Summer 1967.

Buildings from left to right are the 51-story 245 Park Avenue (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1967), 30-story 485 Lexington Avenue (Emery Roth & Sons, 1956) and 34-story 750 Third Avenue (Emery Roth & Sons, 1958).

Photo: Unknown.

Source: MIchele Salvati/Varios Autores. “El Acero en la Construcción Moderna. Buenos Aires, Ed. Víctor Lerú, 1976.

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