Eero Saarinen and his three gifts to New York City
A toast to the great 20th century architect Eero Saarinen! The Modernist icon was born on this date in 1910
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architects
October is for lovers — of architecture and archives!
The Eero Saarinen-designed TWA Flight Center at JFK International Airport, pictured above under construction in 1961, is Thursday’s Archtober Building
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The abstract beauty of Robert Moses’ most horrifying idea
This is beautiful because it’s not real: a cross-section of Paul Rudolph’s cross-Manhattan proposal, looking east towards the two approaches
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Podcast Rewind: The Pan Am Building
A special illustrated version of our podcast on the Pan Am Building (Episode #61) is now available on our NYC
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Little monsters overheads: gazing at New York gargoyles
Above: a freaky face hanging from the former mansion of Sinclair Oil tycoon Harry F. Sinclair (today, the Ukrainian Institute
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The Limelight – a church, then a nightclub, now a mall!
The sanguine days of the Holy Communion, pictured here over 150 years before it would be reconfigured as a shopping
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PODCAST: The Pan Am Building
Today it’s the Met Life Building. It’s been called the ugliest building in New York City. It sits like a
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