CONTEMPORARY NY
Top Ten NYC Architecture top ten gone but not forgotten  
     
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1 World Trade Center  

architect

Minoru Yamasaki

location

Church to West Streets, Liberty to Vesey Streets   

date

1966-70 (Destroyed 2001).

style

International Style II

construction

 

type

Office Building
 
     
2 Penn Station  

architect

McKim, Mead and White

location

West 34th Street and Eighth Ave. 

date

1910 (Demolished 1963).

style

Beaux-Arts

construction

 

type

Railway station Utility
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"Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves. Even when we had Penn Station, we couldn't afford to keep it clean. We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed."
- "Farewell to Penn Station," New York Times editorial, October 30, 1963
 
     
3 Madison Square Garden  

architect

McKim, Mead and White

location

Fifth and Madison Avenues 26th and 27th Streets  

date

1890 (demolished in 1925)

style

Renaissance Revival  (tower design was based on the Moorish Giralda Tower in Spain).

construction

Stone

type

Venue
 
     
4 The Waldorf Astoria  

architect

Henry J. Hardenbergh (1847-1918)

location

Fifth Avenue and 33rd Street 

date

1893 (Demolished c. 1927).

style

Historicist Skyscrapers  Second Empire Baroque  French Chateau

construction

Stone and brick cladding, steel frame. Mansard roof.

type

Hotel
 
     
5 Singer Building  

architect

Ernest Flagg

location

Broadway and Liberty Street

date

1906-1908 (demolished 1968).

style

Second Empire Baroque

construction

steel frame, limestone trim, red brick

type

Office Building
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6 Savoy-Plaza Hotel  

architect

McKim, Mead and White

location

767 5th Avenue at East 58th Street, NE Corner to East 59th Street

date

1927 (demolished 1964).

style

Art Deco  

construction

33 floors, 128 meters

type

Hotel
 
     
7 Charles M. Schwab mansion  

architect

Maurice Hebert

location

the entire block between West End Avenue and the Riverside Drive, Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth streets

date

1901

style

French Renaissance chateau

construction

limestone

type

house
 
     
8 The Hippodrome  

architect

Thomas W. Lamb, J.H. Morgan

location

756 Sixth Avenue  (map)

date

1905-1939

style

Beaux-Arts

construction

Brick

type

Theater
 
     
9 Astor Hotel  

architect

Clinton & Russell

location

1515 Broadway at West 44th Street, NW Corner to West 45th Street

date

1904 (demolished 1967)

style

Beaux-Arts

construction

11 floors

type

Hotel
 
     
10 NEW YORK WORLD BUILDING  

architect

George B Post

location

Park Row 

date

1890 (demolished 1955).

style

Renaissance Revival

construction

309 feet tall

type

Office Building