A Chicagoan in New York
2 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Wednesday, August 12, 2009 at 8/12/2009 06:29:00 AM.
At the end of the 19th Century, the center of avant-garde architecture was not New York, but Chicago, with visionaries such as John Wellborn Root and Louis Sullivan.
They argued against the use of historical elements, rejecting the fact that a modern understructure must be hidden behind a display of another age, later followed by Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe. Sullivan claimed that new kinds of buildings required new kinds of architectural expression.
The Bayard-Condict Building is the only work of Louis Sullivan in New York. The building located at 65 Bleecker Street in NoHo was built between 1897 and 1899 in the Chicago School style.
The Bayard Building was one of the first steel skeleton frame skyscrapers in New York and the Department of Buildings raised numerous objections to the design before the plans were finally accepted.
Sullivan's ornate floral designs decorate the base and top of the facade, and across the spandrels below the window openings.
Figural sculptures of angels were added at the request of the client, over Sullivan's objections. Among other clients it houses the offices of the Andy Warhol Foundation.
Labels: Architecture Instant Love, Architecture shot, New York, photography
Your blog is always so educational (and obviously inspiring above all)
Bonjour! Cedric,
Nice photographs of the architecture in New York.
Being an Art History major...
I'am familiar with the names...
Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Louis Sullivan, etc....
Merci, for sharing!
DeeDee ;-D