Screen LibraryNever built New York /
New York towers among world capitals, but they city we know might have never reached even more stellar heights, or burrowed into more destructive depths, had the ideas pictured in the minds of its greatest dreamers progressed beyond the drawing board and taken form in stone, steel, and glass. What i...
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Metropolis Books,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2016] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York towers among world capitals, but they city we know might have never reached even more stellar heights, or burrowed into more destructive depths, had the ideas pictured in the minds of its greatest dreamers progressed beyond the drawing board and taken form in stone, steel, and glass. What is wonderfully elegant and grand might easily have been ingloriously grandiose; what is blandly remarkable might have been delightfully provocative or humanely inspiring. Nearly 200 ambitious projects spanning 200 years encompass bridges, skyscrapers, mass-transit plans, parks, streets and highways |
| Item Description: | Projects include: Calvin Pollard, Washington Monument (1843) -- Egbert Ludovicus Viele, Arcade under-Ground Railway (1866) -- Rufus Henry Gilbert, Gilbert's Elevated Railway (1878) -- Grand Central Terminal (1903-1968) -- Charles Rollinson Lamb, Diagonal Plan (1904) -- Raymond Hood, Skyscraper Bridges (1925) -- Frank Lloyd Wright, St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie (1927) -- Benjamin Wistar Morris, Rockefeller Center and Columbus Circle (1929) -- Robert Moses, Mid-Manhattan Expressway (1941) -- Ely Jacques Kahn, Dowling Theater (1945) -- Wallace K. Harrison, X-City (1946) -- United Nations (1946-194 |
| Carrier Form: | 407 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans ; 23 x 30 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 404-405) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781938922756 (hardback) : 1938922751 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | NA2705 |
| CLC: | TU984.712 |
| Call Number: | TU984.712/G619 |
| Contents: | The paradox of the unbuilt / Daniel Libeskind -- Driving to empire / Greg Goldin, Sam Lubell -- Citywide -- Downtown Manhattan -- Midtown Manhattan -- Uptown Manhattan -- The Bronx and Queens -- Brooklyn and Staten Island. |