Meandering Midtown cont'd

The W. R. Grace Building, rising from a concave vertical slope into fifty storeys of white travertine and black glass.

Silly people slipping and sliding on ice in Bryant Park when they should be flat on their backs marveling at the architecture around them. On the left is the former headquaters of New York Telephone and the 61st tallest building in NYC, if you're into silly statistics like that. On the right is the International Center for Photography, designed by Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects for the display of photography and new media with state-of-the-art lighting, climate control systems, and digital presentation systems.

Enjoying life, especially when you could enjoy the aesthetics of the American Standard Building, with its black brick adorned with gold terra-cotta trim.
 
As I'm leaving Bryant Park, I look up at New York's finest gem. There will be other skyscrapers that are taller or more expensive but none quite as elegant as this beauty.


Again, people enjoying life, ice skating, at Rockefeller Center. 

The NYC Lego Store, where you can purchase the Lego version of Rockefeller Center for $39.99. But why stop there, you can get the whole architecture series. 


St. Patrick's Cathedral was one of the first examples of Gothic Revival ecclesiastical architecture in the US. The annual St. Patrick's Day Parade marches past St. Patrick's Cathedral. Fifth Ave is also closed down each year for the Easter Parade on Fifth Avenue since the Civil War. Anyone can march in it.

No words are needed, just taste buds.

Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, was one of the last churches built in brownstone in the city.


Designed by architectural firm, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, and structural engineers Eckersly O'Callahan (glass elements) in collaboration with Apple, the CUBE is entirely free of structural steel and self-supporting. You are drawn to the store level by a glass elevator within a glass cylinder and a spiral glass staircase that wraps around it.