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A century ago, it was the tallest building in the world. Now, the Woolworth Building, one of New York’s most famous landmarks, is about to embark on a new phase in its history, with the top 30 floors of its tower ready to be converted into 40 premium apartments for the super wealthy.
Multiplicity of meanings… To Frank Woolworth, it served as a soaring trademark of his empire; to engineers, it was the epitome of steel frame construction; to architects, it was a marriage of the Beaux- Arts with the Neo-Gothic; to tourists, it was the highlight of their upward gaze. But for New York, and specifically Manhattan, the ‘Cathedral of Commerce’ was the harbinger of its obsession with skyscrapers. Continue reading