LEGO Architecture Flatiron Building 21023 Bedienungsanleitung

FlatironBuilding

New York City, NY, USA

LeFlatironBuilding

New York, NY, États-Unis

EdiﬁcioFlatiron

Ciudad de Nueva York,

Nueva York (EE. UU.)

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Flatiron Building

Sitting on the intersection where Fifth Avenue and Broadway cross, the

Flatiron Building (originally named the Fuller Building) remains one of

New York City’s most popular and memorable structures. Today it is

difficult to imagine the controversy this architectural landmark created

on its completion in 1902.

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ploughing up through the traﬃc of Broadway

andFifthAvenueintheafternoonlight

H. G. Wells, 1906

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History

As the city of New York expanded northward during the second half of

the 19th century, small plots of land in between or on the edge of new

buildings remained undeveloped. One of the most well known of these

was the narrow triangular site at 23rd Street, between Fifth Avenue and

Broadway. The “Flat Iron,” as it quickly became known, changed owners

many times, but wouldn’t be developed until the Chicago-based Fuller

Company bought the site in 1901.

The Fuller Company, a major Chicago-based contracting firm

specializing in the construction of skyscrapers, planned to build a

new showcase headquarter on the site. The founder of the company,

George A. Fuller, had died the year before, and the new building would

be named the Fuller Building in his honor.

The Fuller Company engaged Chicago architect Daniel H. Burnham to

design the building and, utilizing the Fuller Company’s expertise with

steel frame construction, he proposed a 20-story structure that would

reach a height of 285 ft. (86.9 m). A penthouse would be added in 1905,

increasing the building’s height to 307 ft. (93 m). The building’s Broadway

front would be 190 ft. (60 m) wide, the

Fifth Avenue front 173 ft. (52.7 m) wide,

and the 22nd Street side just short of

87 ft. (26.5 m) wide. At the “point” of

the triangle the building would only

be 6.5 ft. (2 m) wide and would form

a 25-degree acute angle.

Burnham saw the building as a

vertical Renaissance palazzo with

Beaux-Arts, or neoclassical, styling.

Visually the building would be divided

into three distinct sections. It would

consist of a richly decorated, three-

story limestone façade at the bottom

and a broad, repetitive midsection in

a light tan monochrome terra cotta.

The structure would then be topped

off with a crowning cornice that would

run the entire length of the building.

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With its steel skeleton structure, the construction of the building was

carried out rapidly and without major incident. While other New York

skyscrapers at the time were often thin towers rising from pedestal-like

blocks, the Flatiron was a single massive structure. This radical design,

combined with its great height and unusual shape, created a great deal

of debate as the building neared completion in 1902.

Many New Yorkers believed the structure would be unstable and would

fall over at the first gust of wind. The building had even been nicknamed

“Burnham’s Folly” and bets were placed on how far the debris would

reach when it blew over. Strong winds came and went, and the Flatiron

Building withstood them—as it continues to do today, over a century

later. It is proof that the structure was not only a strong architectural

idea, but a groundbreaking engineering marvel as well.

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The Architect

Born in New York and raised in Chicago, Daniel H. Burnham would

become one of the founding fathers of the first Chicago School of

architects. Together with his then-partner John W. Root, Burnham built

one of the first American skyscrapers, the 21-story Masonic Temple

Building in Chicago in 1892, and planned the architectural layout of the

largest World Fair ever held at that time in 1893.

Burnham’s architecture mixed elements of Modernism with a more

neoclassical style. Many of his buildings, including the Flatiron Building,

followed the convention of the classical column: three distinct parts

made up of a base, a middle section, and an ornate cornice at the top.

Burnham’s early sketches for the

Flatiron Building included a clock

face and a far more elaborate

crown at the top of the building,

but he was persuaded to remove

both by his former partner John W.

Root. Although Burnham retained

overall control of the project,

he engaged the architect F. P.

Dinkelberg (1859–1935) to carry

out most of the supervising work

during the actual construction.

After the Flatiron Building, Burnham

would continue to work on a

series of impressive architectural

projects, including a number of

major planning tasks for the cities of San Francisco, Washington, D.C.,

and Manila in the Philippines. At the time of his death in 1912, his D. H.

Burnham & Co. architectural firm was the largest in the world.

Daniel Hudson Burnham (1846 – 1912)

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Plan for the development of Manila, submitted to the Philippine Commission by D. H. Burnham, 1905

Plan for San Francisco by Daniel Burnham and William Bennett, published 1906

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The Building Today

Although never the tallest building in New York, or even the first building

in the country with a triangular ground plan, the Flatiron Building

remains an iconic symbol of the city of New York. Its enduring popularity

with tourists, artists, and photographers also makes it one of the most

photographed buildings in the world.

The famous building has appeared in countless movies, TV series, and

comics. It was home to Peter Parker’s Daily Bugle in the Spiderman

movies, and was even accidently destroyed by the U.S. Army in the

1998 film Godzilla.

The building was designated a New York City Landmark in 1966, added

to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, and became a National

Historic Landmark in 1989. Valued today at $190 million, the Flatiron

Building continues to function as a popular retail and office space,

and is home to a large number of U.S. and international companies. In

2009, Sorgente Group of America acquired the majority stake of the

Flatiron Building. Sorgente Group of America is the American Holding

of Sorgente Group, an Italian real estate investment company.

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ofanewAmericastillinthemaking

PhotographerAlfredStieglitz

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Facts about Flatiron Building

Location: ........................................ New York City, USA

Architect:...................................... D. H. Burnham & Co: Daniel H. Burnham

Style: .............................................. Renaissance Revival with Beaux-Arts styling

Materials: .................................... Steel frame structure, façade of limestone and

terra-cotta

Height: .......................................... 1902: 285 ft. (86.9 m). Today: 307 ft. (93 m).

Weight: ......................................... 3,680 tons (3,338.5 metric tons)

Opened: ...................................... 1902

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