The Flat­iron Build­ing in New York City

Breathtaking… A house built more than a cen­tury ago, in a city that is larger than any­thing you can imag­ine. Com­pleted in 1902, al­most an 1800 house, 87 me­ters tall (al­most 100 me­ters) with an 22 floor count. Witch gives each floor a total hight of 4 me­ters!! Thats what i call ceil­ing hight.

Flat­iron in New York City

The Flat­iron Build­ing, which when con­structed was called the Fuller Build­ing, was one of the tallest build­ings in New York City when com­pleted. As you can see on the first photo the de­tail level on the fa­cade is as­ton­ish­ing, the style is called Beaux Arts and you mainly know it by those high greek columns. But also when you dig deeper into Mar­vel comics and see all the struc­tural build­ing ar­chi­tec­ture you’ll no­tice the Beaux Art style.

I love this house, and i love New York city

This is a post in a se­ries of posts, the first one was “Why i Think i Love New York” a short and sim­ple why. The sec­ond one was “Why I Think I love New York part II” a lit­tle bit longer and a more big WHY?.
Read them both and read this and let me know why you think you love new york, if you do think you love new york that is.

A “Flatiron” copy found in Chicago

The Flat­iron Build­ing is fre­quently seen on TV in the open­ing of the The Late Show With David Let­ter­man and it was used as the Daily Bugle build­ing in the Spi­der Man films. I love the ar­chi­tec­tural style and find it calm­ing in many ways, i try to find the core value in why i love the style, but can’t seem to know why. It’s just the level of de­tail and the hugh amount of ef­fort it took Daniel Burn­ham to sketch and draw this mag­nif­i­cent build­ing. This is an­other rea­son Why I think I Love New York, and the lit­tle house from Chicago, makes me be­lieve that if you want to build and con­struct a house like this today, it’s very possible…. Maybe a man­sion like that… in an urban environment.

By Linus Ekenstam