New York Art Deco Metalwork

[thomasjfletcher]

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/ARCH/deco_ny_ge.jpg

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/ARCH/Edgar_BrandtOasis.jpg

Edgar Brandt, Oasis

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/ARCH/MID163-181W34.jpg

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/MID/PICT0037.jpg

Cheney Silk Company
1925, cnr 34th Street and Lexington Ave

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/ARCH/PICT0051.jpg

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/ARCH/PICT0052.jpg

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/ARCH/MID019-CHANIN-07.jpg

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/ARCH/PICT0053.jpg

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/ARCH/PICT0050.jpg

Chanin Building
122 East 42nd Street 1927-1929 Sloan & Robertson

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SCC/Pict0473.jpg

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SCC/Pict0470.jpg

American International Building
1930-1932 70 Pine St.

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/MID/MID129-5.jpg

New Yorker Hotel
Sugarman & Berger 1930

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/ARCH/29bway603.jpg

29 Broadway

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/MID/032-P6157167.jpg

Waldorf-Astoria Hotel

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SOH/Pict0198.jpg

Western Union Building
Voorhees, Gmelin & Walker 1928-1930

Full series at-
http://www.nyc-architecture.com/ARCH/Notes-ARTDECO.htm

[NYatKNIGHT]

Love it. More please.

[Clarknt67]

This site is the best resource for this sort of thing. Thanks for the great collection of images!

[JonY]

Absolutely beautiful collection thomasjfletcher!! Art deco pieces~high art! So intricate.

Thanks for sharing.

I clicked on the link that you provided Thomas and thought I would add these examples....

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/ARCH/WORLDFAIR.jpg

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SCC/Pict0468.jpg

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/MID/MID145-02.jpg

[BrooklynRider]

Exquisite thread!

[Kolbster]

^^I must agree

It makes you proud to see such art in your city

[JonY]

Exquisite thread!
Ineed it is.

We dare not include William van Alen's 1930 Chrysler Building.

Its beautiful crown, with its hub-capped infuenced metal work. The gargoyles besides being decorative double up as traffic cameras:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/skyscraperrot/chrysler04.jpg

http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/chrysler/shaft.jpg

The lower section:

http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/chrysler/det2.jpg

http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/chrysler/det.jpg

...and the lobby/elevator entrances with more beautiful metalwork:

http://www.oscarbach.org/WebPhotos/Architectural/archcomppixel%20350/arch57.jpg

http://www.oscarbach.org/WebPhotos/Architectural/archcomppixel%20350/arch59a.jpg

[Bob]

All you Art Deco fans... the World Congress of Art Deco is being held in NY later this month! If you need more info, you can scrounge the internet for a listing about it, or contact the Art Deco Society of New York.

Art Deco RULES!!!!!

[Stern]

Tribeca Tribune:

A Bold 'Retro' Antenna for 60 Hudson St.?

by Barry Owens

When Tribeca-based architect George Boyle looks at the hulking building that takes up the entire block bounded by West Broadway and Hudson, Worth and Thomas Streets, he does not see the controversial 60 Hudson Street.

That would be the infamous address so often associated with the notoriously noisy telecom building and the copious amount of diesel fuel stored inside, which currently is the target of neighborhood anger and concern.

No, Boyle does not see that building. He sees the Western Union Building, the Ralph Walker masterpiece that he calls an "Art Deco mountain."

And when he looks at it these days, he sees that something is missing. Boyle told the Landmarks Committee of Community Board 1 last month that the building needs another antenna.

But not just any antenna. The building, a designated city landmark whose appearance cannot be changed without approval from the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC), already has a boxy structure on top to hold its many broadcast dishes. Boyle is drafting a new master plan for requested changes by the owner to the building's exterior, and hopes for permission to replace that antenna with one much taller-105 feet. Its retro-looking design is reminiscent of the old RKO Pictures logo, a radio tower on top of a globe emanating waves in every direction.

"It really does call for something reaching into the sky," Boyle said.

Many on the Landmarks Committee agreed. But what they don't want to see is a tower so littered with telecom dishes that it ends up resembling what one member described as a "massive Brussels sprout."
The community board postponed making a recommendation on Boyle's plan for the building, however, as did the LPC later in the month.

The board's concern had less to do with antenna design than with noise. The master plan also calls for more louvers on all sides of the building to better filter the noise of exhaust fans. "The more louvers, the less noise," said Patricia Scanlon, a noise consultant for the building.

But neither Scanlon nor Kenneth Pliska, an engineering consultant for the building's owners, would reveal current or projected noise levels.

"We can't consider this until you give us the facts, and we don't want to consider this until we have the facts," said board member Marc Donnenfeld.

The LPC delayed judgment because the plan did not prescribe just where future louvers would go. A spokeswoman for the commission said, however, the antenna appears likely to survive.

"It captures the spirit of the building," Boyle told the Trib. "It is a telecommunications building, and that is what it wants to be. It is just being honest."

As for the larger controversy surrounding the building with the infamous address, the architect said only that he loves the structure and loves trying to find ways to adapt it to modern use."

"I don't care about any of that other stuff," he said.

http://www.tribecatrib.com/photos/news/july05/antenna-detail.jpg

http://www.tribecatrib.com/photos/news/july05/antenna-building.jpg

[lofter1]

Tribeca Tribune:

A Bold 'Retro' Antenna for 60 Hudson St.?

... hopes for permission to replace that antenna with one much taller - 105 feet



I like this, but I wish it were bigger in scale ...

Why not 200 feet tall ?!