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NEW
YORK ARCHITECTURE
Starting in
the early 1900s, New York City became known for its daring and impressive
architecture. The city was a center for the Beaux-Arts movement,
with architects like Stanford White and Carrere and Hastings. New
York's skyscrapers include the Flatiron Building (1902) where Fifth
Avenue crosses Broadway at Madison Square, Cass Gilbert's Woolworth
Building (1913) a neo-Gothic "Cathedral of Commerce" overlooking
City Hall, the Chrysler Building (1929) the purest expression of
the Art Deco skyscraper and the Empire State Building (1931) are
all skyscraper icons. Modernist architect Raymond Hood and after
World War II Lever House began the clusters of 'glass boxes' that
transformed the more classic previous skyline of the 1930s. When
the World Trade Center towers were completed in 1973 many felt them
to be sterile monstrosities, but most New Yorkers became fond of
"The Twin Towers" and after the initial horror for the
loss of life in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks there came
great sadness for the loss of the buildings.
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