New York Life View
by Terry Davis
Title
New York Life View
Artist
Terry Davis
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Art, Photo Painting, Photography
Description
One my most recent visit to New York, I spent a week enjoying the usual tourist's fare - the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, the 9-11 Memorial and the Brooklyn Bridge. The friends I stayed with live in an apartment with amazing views from the 36th floor. This is one of them. I looked up the building and found it is the New York Life building and, coincidentally, that is the company my Dad worked for over 40 years.
I added a number of textures to create the atmospheric, mysterious feel to the background while allowing the beauty of the building to emerge from the fog.
Designed in 1926 by Cass Gilbert, who also designed the landmark Woolworth Building, the massive New York Life building rises forty stories to its pyramidal gilded roof while occupying the full block between 26th Street, 27th Street, Madison Avenue and Park Avenue South, a rarity in Manhattan. The New York Life Building stands 615 feet tall and contains 40 floors. Inspired by Salisbury Cathedral, it was the last significant Gilbert skyscraper in Manhattan.
The building was completed in 1928 after two years of construction at the cost of $21 million. It combines streamlined Gothic details and distinctly Moderne massing. The gold pyramid at the top consists of 25,000 gold-leaf tiles. The building was designated an official New York City landmark by the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission in 2000, and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as a National Historic Landmark, designated in 1972, In 1995, after the pyramid was restored with new tiles and lit, the building received a Merit Citation Award from the New York Landmarks Conservancy.
IMAGE FEATURED IN:
The No Place Like Home group 11/13/19
The Philanthropic Artists group 11/10/19
The Pin Me Daily group 11/08/19
The Topaz group 10/29/19
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October 27th, 2019
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