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A color photograph taken from a high vantage point. The black American Radiator Tower fills the center of the frame, but is lower than the photographer's position. The main body of the skyscraper consists of a regular grid of windows surrounded by black brick. The upper third of the tower tapers slightly and is ornamented by abstract geometric shapes covered in gold that glisten in the sunlight.

American Radiator Building

1922–1924
Raymond Hood and Jacques André Fouilhoux
40 West 40th Street, New York, NY

One of the most daring departures from precedent that architectural history has ever seen. —C. H. Blackall

Pavel Bendov
American Radiator Building, 2017
© Pavel Bendov