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- 1. The Rockefeller center Raymond Hood and Wallace K. Harrison Manhattan, New York 1929
- 2. To break away from what came before, thus making it new.
- 3. In the 1920s a change was emerging in Manhattan's Midtown
- 4. Midtown Manhattan New York 1920s Aerial view of midtown Manhattan in the 1920s - Unknown
- 5. The seed of The Rockefeller Center 1926
- 6. “A city within a city” A Paradox ● The centre must combine the maximum of congestion with the maximum of light and space ● All planning … should be based upon “a commercial centre as beautiful as possible consistent with the maximum income that should be developed”
- 7. Proposal for Metropolitan Square, 1928 (Benjamin Wistar Morris) Proposal diagram, 1928 (Reinhard and Hofmeister)
- 8. Floorplan of Rockefeller Center (Alok Vyas )
- 10. Characteristics ● Smooth wall surface ● Smooth faced stone or metal ● Polychromy with vivid colours ● Simplified streamlined forms ● Set backs with stepped outline ● Geometric designs ● Vertical projections ● Metallic materials for decorative features
- 11. Highlighting the center’s vertical projection, 1978 (Carol Herselle Krinsky) Setbacks and stepped outline, 2015 (Unknown)
- 12. Geometric Rockefeller underground connecting concourse (unknown) Underground Beaux-Arts plan of concourse, 1929 (unknown)
- 13. GE Building Entrance, 2016 (unknown)
- 14. In conclusion In the end the Rockefeller Center solved it’s paradox and was able to take the idea of the existing horizontal city and apply it into a vertical element to achieve having a city within a city. This made it the first building in the world to include retail stores, broadcasting studios, restaurants and entertainment venues all in one place making it the first ever Multi-use building.
- 15. Reference List Koolhaas, R. 1994. Delirious New York. New York. Monacelli press Art Deco. 2016. [O]. Available: http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/portal/communities/culture/styles/art-deco.html Accessed 8 May 2016 Rockerfeller Centre. 2016. [O]. Available http://alokv.tripod.com/plan_port/rc519.html Accessed 7 May 2016
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- Explaining Modernism in its simple definition
- Changes began with the rebuilding of the Grand central Station and the revamp of 5th ave and there was a trend of emerging skyscrapers. For 300 years, Lower Manhattan had dominated the city's economic life.
- It began with trying to find new accommodation for the Metropolitan Opera by Benjamin Wistar Morris. The task was hard because of the manhattan paradox which was: The opera had to exist on its own in the least desirable parts of the grid and a better location would be expensive meaning the opera would have to have more commercial functions to make financial sense. It had become difficult to be conventional in Manhattan.
- A paradox is a statement that is self contradictory but may be true. First of all, a city cannot physically exist within a city but his statement sounds true. Congestion is the opposite of light and space yet how can they exist simultaneously at their Maximum? And the same with Beauty and maximum income. Before, a building was either beautiful and served one function or its main point was to generate income.
- The image on the left is Morris’s proposal for the new location of the opera house where the Opera would be situated on the west and the bulk of the centre is sacrificed in favour of his Beaux - Arts dignity of his Opera. On the right is Reinhard and Hofmeisters correction of Morris’s proposal where they suggest exploiting the full commercial potential by adding a major central tower. This was the beginning of the form of what the Rockefeller center is today.
- Floor plan of Rockefeller center as it stands now
- The design and finish elements of the center were greatly influenced by Beaux-Art or what we know as the Art-deco movement. It emphasises on the future rather than the past was the movement's main principle because it strives for modern and artistic expression.
- Art deco Characteristics in architecture
- The image on the left shows shows the linear projections that go skyward. And in the image on the right the stepped setbacks can be seen
- These are the plans of the centers underground connecting concourse. The plan is very art deco because there is a geometry in the layout and in a sense some symmetry
- On this facade many of the art deco characteristics can be identified. Smooth wall surfaces and the stone limestone facade The polychromy with vivid colours Vertical projections Metallic decorative features