Would be a nice extension to the existing complex.
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Did Cecar Pelli design this as well as the complete WFC?
It looks very Pelli-an
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Likely, and it looks to me like it would have been as high as tower 2 in the world financial center. The arched roof looks like a pretty decent reference to the winter garden down below, and it would have been a great rooftop observation experience, if not a full on observation opportunity.
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That is an old proposed design (one of them) for a 5th WFC (BP) tower that was designed (by Cesar Pelli) after the original complex had been designed that would have been built where the current Goldman Sachs Tower is at 200 West St. It’s height would have been similar to 4 BP (577’) the southmost tower that is by itself. The design’s characteristic barrel vault roof feature would’ve been copper clad mechanical space like it’s older siblings, not an accessible glass structure.
It’s possible that Olympia and York had planned for there to be a 5th tower but were never able to acquire the 200 West St lot.
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The image description is rude, because gray (where, absolutely where) pile of towers is an absolutely terrible description of the complex. The copper roof features looked amazing in their prime.
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This is another plan for Battery Park City. Definitely ties in well with the Lower Manhattan Expressway.
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Demolition for Chase Plaza c. 1956. Seen from the RBC Building.
Interesting to contrast the wings of the Mutual Life Building structurally. The most intact portion is from 1884, and the most recent parts (closer towards the camera) were built in 1902.
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It wasn’t the first International style building to be built in Lower Manhattan but it was definitely the most prominent. Crazy how much it stood out back then because of it’s size and facade materials, now it’s just another building among all the other international style buildings built after it.
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The article was worse lol
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I think they were looking at the wrong towers in that picture when they made that comment
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No! In the article the same slander was thrown
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Great shot of Tudor City, still one of the hidden gems in Manhattan.
Although maybe I’m biased because I live there.
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From Tudor City I have more old pictures in my collection, it is also in the original a very nice housing complex.
I wanted to come back to the Mutual Life Building for a minute with some old renderings and two old pictures.
1892
When this rendering was published in 1893, the company broke ground or laid the cornerstone for the addition.
1895
1901
1902
A small building with a very interesting facade, it stood at the address 38 Pine Street.
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That’s a gorgeous little building. It looks like it got nerfed and given a few more floors but survived until the 1961-62 wipeout of the block.
Have you seen any renderings/info on the Cedar Street Mutual Life annex(from 1902)? I remember reading about it having a subtly different design, and that the first floor of the old building was lowered down to street level and given some kind of arcade to connect all the wings. I’ve never seen any pics of this and I’ve only seen 2 decent pics of it (one aerial shot, and this interior shot)
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