Avenue of the Americas

Avenue of the Americas – New York, New York We have moved from Tribeca, located in Lower Manhattan, to Midtown. Avenue of the Americas, also known as Sixth Avenue, is home to an impressive row of modernist office buildings around 50th Street, extending south for several blocks. While these boxy towers might not be architecturally exciting these days, I’m impressed with these buildings for another reason. Scale. Built between the late 1950s and the 1970s, there are five of these towers in succession on the west side of Sixth Avenue, forming an impressive wall of skyscrapers down the street. Four were developed as part of the Rockefeller Center expansion, while the fifth was a separate development. They all look about the same height from street level but range from roughly 540 to 750 feet tall. In many cities, having one or two towers of this height might be impressive. Here, we have five in close proximity. We see four of the five towers from this perspective, shot with the Leica…