Crazy how the ESB stood uncontested in Midtown for almost 80 years
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When I was a kid I used to call this the “Pencil” Building.
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Ok last one for tonight, Worldwide Plaza models from SOM. baby plazettes
I can say for certain I probably would not enjoy this building as much as I do if it had a circular window towards the top
I have these photos somewhere in a bit higher quality but I can’t find them at the moment
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External steel tube construction with multi-story shop prefabs makes those construction photos look eerily like WTC 1.0. The main tower body even has those corner cuts.
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I need 2 Worldwide Plaza photos HELP
from Santi-Jose Acosta on Facebook
(no point in making an individual thread for this building, he can share this one)
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Jeez. It seems you yourself are finding more media on this one building than me researching One Liberty Place. Nice fucking work man!
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I just found this, the one photo I presume you’re looking for shows the crown without cladding while under construction
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damn bro i think u might like one worldwide plaza
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Thank you- I am always on the search for more images. My main goal of this thread was to figure out exactly what year(s) the oxidation occurred on the roof but it’s now turned into just a photo thread.. I am running out of material though
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From the Skyscraper book
I believe this last image here is facing east and includes Two Worldwide Plaza in the foreground
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Just a suggestion, get a digital scanner to preserve these images with great quality. I’ve put several of my post cards and books on my scanner, I love how it contributes to preservation
Here’s a photo I scanned that was taken in 1986, from a Philadelphia Picture Memory book published in 1987 by Bill Harris. A lovely suggestion from @Mackensen along with the book published by Bill Harris in 1988. Both books show prominent progress of One Commerce Square and One Liberty Place when Philadelphia was first receiving skyscrapers
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I did not realize that getty images were not allowed in this forum, my thread has been nuked 
I saw an image last night from 9/11 that showed the top of the Worldwide Plaza with a green roof, which means that the top had oxidized by the 2000s. This means that at some point between 1990 and 2000 the top became green… I don’t know the timing of oxidation for the World Financial Center but perhaps it was the same. So sometime in those 10 years it began changing.
This is an image supposedly from September 1997, by RNRobert on Flickr. I believe you can see the top turning from copper-green, the photo seems to have a filter on it so I cannot say for sure
TBD…
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