Tiled Vaulting and Light

The Gaustvino tile timbrel vaulting in the Manhattan Municipal Building flows in beautiful spans above the Chambers Street subway station in New York... more

by James Aiken

Title

Tiled Vaulting and Light

Artist

James Aiken

Medium

Photograph - Photography

Description

The Gaustvino tile timbrel vaulting in the Manhattan Municipal Building flows in beautiful spans above the Chambers Street subway station in New York City.

The Manhattan Municipal Building, originally the "Municipal Building", at 1 Centre Street in Manhattan, New York City, is a 40-story building built to accommodate increased governmental space demands after the 1898 consolidation of the city's five boroughs. Construction began in 1907 and ended in 1914, marking the end of the City Beautiful movement in New York. William M. Kendall of the noted architectural firm McKim, Mead and White designed the building, which was the first to incorporate a subway station ďż˝ the Chambers Street station, served by the J - Z trains ďż˝ into its base. Enormously influential in the civic construction of other American cities, its application of Beaux-Arts architecture served as the prototype for the Terminal Tower in Cleveland, and the Wrigley Building in Chicago, in addition to the Seven Sisters of Stalin-era Soviet architecture.
The building was designated a New York City landmark in 1966, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. (Information obtained from Wikipedia)

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March 3rd, 2015