Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Rockefeller Center
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Preferred Title:
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Rockefeller Center
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Image View:
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Time-Life Building (now One Rockefeller Plaza), detail of the polychromatic panel over the south (48th Street) entrance by Attilio Piccirilli
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Creator:
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Max Abramovitz (American architect, 1908-2004); Raymond M. Hood (American architect, 1881-1934); Wallace Kirkman Harrison (American architect, 1895-1981) and others
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Location:
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site: New York, New York, United States
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Date:
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1931-1940 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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American
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Style Period:
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Art Deco
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Work Type 1:
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skyscraper
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Work Type 2:
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office building
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Work Type 3:
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mixed-use development
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Classification:
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architecture
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Material:
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stone: sandstone
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Technique:
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construction (assembling)
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Subjects:
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architectural exteriors; business, commerce and trade; cityscapes; City planning
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Description:
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Principal architect was Raymond Hood, working with and leading three architectural firms, [ Reinhard & Hormeister; Corbett, Harrison, & MacMurray (1929-1935); Godley & Fouilhoux ], on a team that included a young Wallace Harrison. The firms were known as The Associated Architects. Rockefeller Center was acclaimed as a pioneering concept of commercial, multilevel, superblock planning; its Art Deco skyscrapers, including the RCA Building, are grouped around a sunken plaza. Many are embellished with landscaped terraces. Harrison and Abramovitz were later responsible for the more mundane towers (1959-1974) on the Sixth Avenue side of the complex. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/)
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Image Description:
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Polychromatic panel by Attilio Piccirilli entitled "The Joy of Life", installed in 1937
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Collection:
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Archivision Base Collection
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Identifier:
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1A1-RH-RC-F2
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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