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(cover photo 1982) Manhattan, Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman, 1979 "Chapter one. ""He adored New York City.He idolised it all out of proportion. "Uh, no. Make that "He romanticised itall out of proportion. ""To him,no matter what the season was,this was still a townthat existed in black and whiteand pulsated to the great tunesof George Gershwin. … Leggi tutto Manhattan
(cover photo 1982) Annie Hall, Woody Allen & Marshall Brickman, 1977 ALVY (His head still down) The universe is expanding.DOCTOR The universe is expanding?ALVY (Looking up at the doctor) Well, the universe is everything, and if it's expanding, someday it will break apart and that would be the end of everything! Disgusted, his mother looks … Leggi tutto Coney Island
(cover photo 1982) Henry J. Hardenbergh, ArchitectBlessed by its charming site, graced by its harmonious facade, the grandest dame of New York's Edwardian Age is still as grand as ever. Built for the staggering sum of $12 1/2 million in 1907, the Plaza opened to the huzzahs of millionaires, many of whom instantly rented whole … Leggi tutto The Plaza – 1907
(cover photo 1982) Cass Gilbert, ArchitectNew York's second great public Beaux Arts building, this one with all its sculptural faculties intact. If the ideal Beaux Arts building is a marriage of sculpture and architecture in a French neoclassical motif, then this building was made in heaven. Gallic neoclassicism is ram-pant, as is the statuary. Like … Leggi tutto U.S. Custom House – 1907
(cover photo 1982) Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, Landscape Architects;Jacob Wrey Mould, Associate ArchitectAmerica's first major urban park in a Romantic setting was a break from the monotony of New York's right-angled streets and a breakthrough in urban design. The Street Commissioners of 1807 stamped Manhattan with a pattern of right-angled streets and avenues, … Leggi tutto Central Park – 1873
(cover photo 1982) Cross & CrossThe undoubtedly most striking feature of this 195 m tall building is its, indeed, flamboyant top, a curious mixture of Gothic spires in limestone and brickwork with wavy, filigree style decoration and lightning bolt motifs, depicting the electricity of radio transmission waves sent by the Radio Corporation of America. (1982)
(cover photo 1982 - WTC Stabile (Bent Propeller) was in front of the World Trade Center ) Alexander Calder (Pennsylvania 1898, New York 1976)
(cover photo 1982) Last year alone, Manhattan used 29,566,747,000 pounds of steam through Consolidated Edisons steam pipes. Of the five major pipes that wind beneath the streets of Manhattan—gas, electric, sewer, steam, and water—one hundred eight miles of pipes belong to the steam system. Manhattanites seem to take this phenomenon of curling whirls, of hissing … Leggi tutto Consolidated Edisons steam pipes
(cover photo 1982) To most New Yorkers, water tanks appear to be anachronisms-quaint towers settled among the citys cubes and slick structures. They are certainly a reminder of a more gentle architectural period in our environs, but even today these towers still serve some necessary and life-saving purposes. In case of a burning building, they … Leggi tutto Water tanks
(cover photo 1982) Hugh Stubbins and Emery Roth & Sons, ArchitectsThe city's most dramatic new skyscraper its the first grat soaring thing since RCA building. The tower hardly begins until it is 127 feet up and doesn't stop until its trapezoidal roff pierces the sky 915 feet in the air. Paul Goldberger, architecture cr-tic for … Leggi tutto Citicorp Center – 1977
(cover photo 1982) William Van Alen, ArchitectIts Art Deco spire, the ultimate architectural statement of yhe Jazz Age, made the Chrysler Building the first structure to top the Eiffel Tower
(cover photo 1982) Marcel Breuer and Hamilton Smith, ArchitectsAn upside-down ziggurat
(cover photo 1982) Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, ArchitectsNew York's first sloping-front office building is a variation on a travertine Parsons table (1982)
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(cover photo 1982) John Augustus Roebling (Muhlhausen, Thuringia 1806 - New York 1869)2 torri gotiche in granito sorreggono il ponte tramite 4 cavi d'acciao così descritto da McCullough: The towers would dwarf everything in view… On the New York skyline only the slim spire of Trinity Church at the head of Wall Street reached higher. … Leggi tutto Brooklyn Bridge – 1883
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(cover photo 1982) Annie Hall, Woody Allen & Marshall Brickman - 1977 Alvy's and Annie's voices are heard over the wind-browned exterior of a beach house in the Hamptons. As they continue to talk, the camera moves inside the house. Alvy is picking up chairs, trying to get at the group of lobsters crawling on … Leggi tutto Hamptons
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