Introduce the landmark buildings in new york.

Chrysler Building is a skyscraper located at the junction of 42nd Street and LexingtonAvenue in the east of Manhattan, new york. It is 3 19 meters (1 0,047 feet) high and was the tallest building until the Empire State Building was completed in 193 1 year. However, Chrysler Building is still the tallest brick building in the world. After the 9 1 1 incident, it became the second tallest building in new york again. Until 65438+February 2007, the top of the Bank of America Building was 365.8 meters (1 1,200 feet), which made the ranking of Chrysler Building fall to the third highest in new york. In addition, in 2007, new york Times Building was the same height as Chrysler Building. Chrysler Building

Chrysler Building is considered as a typical installation art building, and most contemporary architects believe that Chrysler Building is still the best installation art building in new york.

Rockefeller Center is a complex of 65,438+09 commercial buildings, covering 22 acres, located in Rockefeller Center in midtown Manhattan.

East-west direction, from 48th Street to 5 1 Street, occupying three blocks, north-south direction, from Fifth Avenue to Seventh Avenue, occupying three vertical blocks. Such a huge building complex is probably rare in all major cities in the world except the palace. This complex was invested and built by the Rockefeller family. It is located in the center of Manhattan. In 1987, this building was designated as a "national historical landmark" by the US government. It is the largest private building complex in the world, and it is also a symbol of modernist architecture and capitalism. Its significance has long gone beyond the building itself. Rockefeller Center claims to be one of the greatest urban planning in the 20th century. This area covers an area of 22 acres and consists of 65,438+09 Rockefeller centers.

The use of public space in the activity area surrounded by buildings has also opened up a new look of urban planning. Complete shopping centers and office buildings make Midtown the second largest business district in new york after Wall Street. Rockefeller Center is almost a perfect presentation of Ferris' paintings, including the distribution and high-low configuration of buildings. The relatively low international building next to Fifth Avenue slowly descends to the highest foreign electric building (69th floor) next to Sixth Avenue, criss-crossing the square "ChannelGarden" and the citizen's "LowerPlaza". This mini city can accommodate 250,000 people for work, sightseeing and consumption every day. Strictly speaking, Rockefeller Center covers Fifth Avenue to Seventh Avenue and between 47th Street and 52nd Street. This area includes restaurants, office buildings, clothing stores, banks, post offices, bookstores and even subway tunnels. Architects skillfully use the squares, open spaces and stairwells between buildings to create the direction of people flow, so that more than 250 thousand people shuttle here every day. The greatest influence of Rockefeller Center in architectural history is the provision of public space. This concept of space designed for the general public led to the subsequent attention to "CivicSpace". The halls, squares, staircases and sidewalks of the building are skillfully used, and a rest area and a consumption area are designed for pedestrians. In 1930s, architecture was no longer a tool to please God and the emperor. Rockefeller Center is named in memory of Rockefeller's boss, John Davison Rockefeller, Jr. (Rockefeller Center

Eller Jr, who rented this family-owned land to Columbia University in new york with 1928. 1930, he began to plan to be here in Gai Lou. At first, he planned to build an opera house for metropolitan opera. However, due to the economic crisis and stock market crash in 1930, George W. john rockefeller changed his mind and stopped investing in the opera house. It was the largest private investment single building project in the world at that time, and 14 skyscrapers were all designed according to the popular "Art Deco style" at that time. The architect in charge of the overall planning is Raymond Hood, and the building is John. Todd's company. This big project broke ground in May 17 and 1930, and the first phase of the project was completed in May 1939 and10/. This project is too big, so in addition to the early overall planning and design, there are three architectural design firms involved in the design, including Wallace, a very important American architect. Rockefeller Center, I have to talk about its main architect Harrison, who is an American architect and one of the important representatives of American internationalist architecture. He was born in Walker, Massachusetts on September 28th, 1995, and died in new york on February 2nd, 1998. Harrison loved art and architecture since childhood, and had close contacts with quite a few masters of art and architecture all his life. He is close friends with cubist painter Ferdinand Leiby and Finnish architect alvar aalto. He passed the rigorous examination at 192 1, entered the Paris Academy of Fine Arts to study architecture, and won a scholarship to travel to Europe and the Middle East because of his outstanding performance. During his travels, he visited the traditional buildings and emerging modernist buildings in Europe and the Middle East many times, which left him a very deep impression.