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New York
Architecture Images-Greenwich Village 401 Broadway Building |
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architect |
Jardin Hill & Murdock |
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location |
401 Broadway (northwest corner of Walker Street) |
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date |
1930 |
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style |
Art Deco |
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construction |
Steel frame, 31 floors, 335 feet (102m) high |
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Office Building |
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notes |
Very little literature was found concerning this graceful -but a little bit isolated at the north of Canal Street- building which could have been designed by Ely Jacques Kahn himself. The huge massing is counterbalanced by the finely displayed recessed setbacks, from which some have canted angles. The rooftop disposition is asymetrical: the left tower is blank and (maybe?) houses a water tank, while the most important one, parallelepipedic, is headed by a church-like slanted roof. The base and the middle part of the building are enhanced with thin buttress-like piers, ornemented spandrels and crenellated setback lines. |
