Does anybody know this building?

[Dazzyls 576]

This is a topic to post old pictures or new pictures, but where you couldn't find a building from on the internet.

 

 

I found this old picture from New York on Google, but I couldn't find the name of the building next to the 40 Wall Street building:

Could anybody help me to find the name?

[Fox 1,444]

Is it 70 Pine Street that you are referring too perhaps?

[Dazzyls 576]

Yes, thanks. I was searching on Wikipedia in the list of tallest buidings in New York and I found that the Bank of Manhattan Trust Building was the tallest in 1930. After that, I searched some pictures and found the one in the first post in this topic. I surfed back to wikipedia and saw the next building to be the tallest of NY was the Chrysler building, but the building in the picture doesn't look like the Chrysler building at all, so that couldn't be it. Why does the 70 Pine Street building look taller than the Bank of Manhattan Trust Building, but isn't in the timeline of tallest buildings of NY?

[9gruntsand1hammer 3,193]

It's in the wiki article list of tallest buildings in New York City. It's number 9 just one spot ahead of 40th Wall Street.

[nas786 104]

that building is actually on stex.  Its a great looking building.

Yes, thanks. I was searching on Wikipedia in the list of tallest buidings in New York and I found that the Bank of Manhattan Trust Building was the tallest in 1930. After that, I searched some pictures and found the one in the first post in this topic. I surfed back to wikipedia and saw the next building to be the tallest of NY was the Chrysler building, but the building in the picture doesn't look like the Chrysler building at all, so that couldn't be it. Why does the 70 Pine Street building look taller than the Bank of Manhattan Trust Building, but isn't in the timeline of tallest buildings of NY?

Looks like that building was built AFTER both 40th wall st, and Chrysler building.  Since Chrysler is taller, there was no point in time that it was the tallest building in ny

[Dazzyls 576]

Looks like that building was built AFTER both 40th wall st, and Chrysler building.  Since Chrysler is taller, there was no point in time that it was the tallest building in ny

Yeah, I saw it. I thought it would be build before the chrysler building, because the Chrysler building wasn't in the picture, but then I realised the picture was made in lower Manhattan.

[mrsmartman 200]

Chrysler managed to add a 125 ft long spire to make his building surpass 40 Wall Street as the tallest building in the world at the time of completion.

[Dazzyls 576]

Chrysler managed to add a 125 ft long spire to make his building surpass 40 Wall Street as the tallest building in the world at the time of completion.

It was only the tallest for one year though, because the Empire State building wanted to take place in the competition too. The Empire State building was the tallest building in the world for about half a century. Followed by the old WTC.

Was the old WTC also the tallest building ever to be demolished?

[nas786 104]

 

Chrysler managed to add a 125 ft long spire to make his building surpass 40 Wall Street as the tallest building in the world at the time of completion.

It was only the tallest for one year though, because the Empire State building wanted to take place in the competition too. The Empire State building was the tallest building in the world for about half a century. Followed by the old WTC.

Was the old WTC also the tallest building ever to be demolished?

 

 

yup, empire had a hell of a run.  Something burj khalifa might be able to make a run at, who knows.

 

Before empire, another really sexy building by name of woolworth building had an almost 2 decade run of tallest in the world.  Its the building all the way on the right of your pic.

[Dazzyls 576]

Yeah I know the Woolworth building. It's one of my favourite buildings of all time, but I can't pick a favourite between the Woolworth or Chrysler building.

Also, the Burj Khalifa will propably only hold its title for about 3 more years. There is a new mega skyscraper being built in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. It's funded by the 6th richest man in the world and it's called the Kingdom Tower:

 

But something a little bit more on topic:

Here are some pictures from the Metropolitan Life Insurance Tower in New York.

in 1911

 

Now

 

Why does the top look different from the old picture? That part just above the clock looks slightly different, but I liked the old picture more. Is it changed and if yes, why?

[mrsmartman 200]

According to Wikipedia,

 

The tower was a later addition to the original 11-story, full-block Metropolitan Life Home Office building (the "East Wing"), which was completed in 1893 and was also designed by Napoleon LeBrun & Sons.^[8] Plans for the tower were first announced in 1905.^[9] In 1953-57, the original Home Office building was replaced with the current building, designed by D. Everett Waid. Then, between 1960 and 1964, the Tower itself was modernized by Lloyd Morgan and Eugene V. Meroni.^[8]

There are four clock faces, one on each side of the tower, located from the 25th to 27th floors. Each clock face is 26.5 feet (8 m) in diameter with each number being four feet (1.2 m) tall. The minute hands each weigh half a ton. The original tower was sheathed in Tuckahoe marble, but during the 1964 renovation plain limestone was used to cover the tower and the East Wing, replacing the old Renaissance revival details with a streamlined, modern look. Much of the building's original ornamentation was removed.

At its southeastern corner, it includes an entrance to the 23rd Street New York City Subwaystation serving the 4 6 <6> trains.

 

By the way, Singer building, together  with City Investing Building, was demolished for inadequate area per floor which made the building uneconomical in modern times. The buildings were replaced by  1 Liberty Plaza. Glad that Met Life Building is preserved.

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

Yes, thanks. I was searching on Wikipedia in the list of tallest buidings in New York and I found that the Bank of Manhattan Trust Building was the tallest in 1930. After that, I searched some pictures and found the one in the first post in this topic. I surfed back to wikipedia and saw the next building to be the tallest of NY was the Chrysler building, but the building in the picture doesn't look like the Chrysler building at all, so that couldn't be it. Why does the 70 Pine Street building look taller than the Bank of Manhattan Trust Building, but isn't in the timeline of tallest buildings of NY?

 

Strange no one has told you yet, but it's actually available as an incredibly good BAT on the STEX, uploaded as part of november 2013's Art Deco month.