Nyc Buildings Flashcards

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Chrysler Building

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  • 137 east 42 end street
  • 1046 ft
  • Art deco
  • 1930
  • tallest brick building in world
  • architect is william van allen
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2
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Empire state building

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  • william f. Lamb
  • 1931
  • 107 floors
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3
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Np

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H

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4
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Metropolitan museum

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H

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5
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Beaux art

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H

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6
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Art deco

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H

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7
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Greek revivial

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H

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8
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Skyscraper

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H

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9
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Cast iron architecture

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H

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10
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Brownstone architecture

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H

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11
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Harlem architecture

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H

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12
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Met life tower

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H

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13
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Citigroup center

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East 53rd street

  • 1977
  • has that diagonal top
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14
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GE building

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H

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15
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Metropolitan life insurance tower

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H

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16
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Waldorf Astoria

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H

17
Q

Singer Building

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H

18
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Seagrams Building

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S

19
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United Nations Building

A

H

20
Q

The plaza residencies

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J

21
Q

Ny public lirbary

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H

22
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Guggenheim museum

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H

23
Q

New museum

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H

24
Q

Ny stock wxchange

A

J

25
Q

Grand Central Terminal

A

H

26
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One world trade center (new)

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  • 2013
  • 1776 feet high
  • Address: Vesey, West, Washington and Fulton Streets
  • modernism
  • 69 office floors
  • environmentally sustainable
27
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One world trade center (old)

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  • 1972
  • 110 floors
  • On 7th August 1974, French high wire artist Philippe Petit made an illegal tightrope walk back and forth between One and Two World Trade Center towers that lasted almost an hour.