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11 comments:
Very nice buldings! Cool. My favorite was the first if it is a real one. Or was it AI?
All buildings are real. The first 3 in the US, then one in Singapore and lastly, China.
I recognized the one in S'pore. They are all striking.
Not Trump Tower here please
Picture number 2 - Trump Tower NYC?
Anon@7:32am & James - Damn! That's an oversight, sorry.
When the tower gets new owners (after the pissant that owns it has paid all the judgements and attorney fees he owes) then it will be a nice building. And finally some artisans can craft new art deco panels of the Bonwit Teller department store and place them on display. (that said pissant had destroyed)
-Rj
#1 beautiful. The rest of them awful 😣
Rj - The sooner the better.
Wow Rick!
Such a great collage of amazing architecture through the ages. As others have noted, my very favorite was your first image - the Ansonia Hotel (now co-op condos) in NYC.
Construction started in 1899, and it took a while to complete - when done, it was the ultimate US example of Beaux Arts style and was the owner's dream to become the "new" destination of the rich blue-bloods of New York. But - being so far "outside" the city (it is at Broadway and 74th) it never attracted that - instead, it became famous for it's Bohemian crowd - artists, sports stars, and musicians took over the amazingly incredible modern (for the time) building including Toscanini, Babe Ruth, FLorenz Ziegfeld and Mahler. It slowly sank into decay, got stripped of almost all of it's amazing detail during WW2 (they were made of copper and were taken to make bullets, etc) and came close to be torn down as it truly had become "the projects." Leaking roof, dangerous balconies, rusted pipes - the whole works.
Then gay people moved in - it was the Ansonia that was the home of the original and first Continental Baths that started the career of Bette Midler and Barry Manilow (and where the movie "The Ritz" was based on). But like with most gay men, it eventually became unfashionable and they moved out, leaving the space of the Continental Baths to become the original Plato's Retreat (the swinger's club). Finally during the revitalization of the late 80's and 90's, the building was seen for it's potential and went condo co-op; today you can't touch a condo in the building for less than $2M.
Despite it's swing into the territory of unaffordable for most of us, I have always been fascinated by the building - it's great to see it up on your site - a great tribute to gay history at the start of Pride Month!
Thanks!
RBS
RBS - Thank you for that neat history!
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