Flatiron Building by Daniel Burnham | Classics on Architecture Lab

The Flatiron Building, completed in 1902, at a height of twenty floors, had the title of one of the tallest buildings of New York and the second ever skyscraper north of the 14th Street. Designed by architect Daniel Burnham, one of the most well known buildings in New York city, was a prime architectural design at the …

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A NoLIta Condo by the Architect Tadao Ando

At the corner of Elizabeth and Kenmare Streets at the edge of NoLIta, demolition work began in early March to make way for a seven-story condominium, Mr. Ando’s first stand-alone project in the city, although he has designed a restaurant (Morimoto in Chelsea) and residential interiors in Manhattan. Fans of Mr. Ando, a Pritzker-Prize-winning architect, …

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