NEW YORK | Worldwide Plaza | 778 FT / 237 M | 49 FLOORS | 1989 - Page 2

RafflesCity · #21 Posted **Jun 18, 2008, 4:41 PM**

The floor plates look massive on this one.

I really like the dramatic crown.

Dac150 · #22 Posted **Feb 19, 2010, 7:22 PM**

Anyone have any lobby shots / interior shots of this building? (I know it's probably a long shot).

RLS_rls · #23 Posted **Mar 6, 2010, 6:38 PM**

Isn't pomo supposed to play with historical motifs? The design seems too solid to be post-modern. It's like a chubby, updated version of late gothic revival/art-deco.

plinko · #24 Posted **Mar 6, 2010, 8:35 PM**

I think my problem with this tower is that it isn't square. Looking up or down 8th Avenue the massing, proportioning and scale seem quite nice...and then you see it from the East or West...yikes. Those longer facades are just brutal.

I read Karl Sabbach's book about this when I was 12 (in 1989). I didn't understand alot of it at the time, but it really gave me a basic understanding of how the development process works.

The first time I went to NYC in 1999, this was one of the buildings I sought out. I found the detailing quite nice, but the overall effect of the tower a little overwhelming.

ethereal_reality · #25 Posted **Mar 6, 2010, 10:29 PM**

There is an excellent book about the construction of Worldwide Plaza (oops..just noticed Plinko mentioned this book as well).

SKYSCRAPER: The Making of a Building. by Karl Sabbagh
http://www.amazon.com/Skyscraper-Mak...ons/0140152849

jcchii · #26 Posted **Mar 7, 2010, 2:52 PM**

I like it. Seems it needs to be a nick taller for such a top though

CarlosV · #27 Posted **Oct 7, 2011, 5:22 PM**

2 copy by Ceva321, on Flickr

Amanita · #28 Posted **Oct 7, 2011, 9:38 PM**

^Love that picture, it's almost like she's playing peek-a-boo!

CarlosV · #29 Posted **Oct 7, 2011, 10:03 PM**

^^^
precisely, especially with that Spanish style little church in the foreground

in Hell's Kitchen!!!

The North One · #30 Posted **Oct 8, 2011, 12:00 AM**

Holy shit!

Looks like 40 Wall Street tuke too many trips to Mcdonalds.

hunser · #31 Posted **Dec 26, 2011, 11:50 AM**

http://hisblog.ryanandheidi.com/2011...g-midtown.html

zlam · #32 Posted **Dec 26, 2011, 2:09 PM**

From my gallery.

zlam · #33 Posted **Dec 26, 2011, 2:26 PM**

I'm not a specialist, I don't know exactly what po-mo is, but I like this building.
From certain angles it reminds an medieval tower
I like its large base and also its color. Even though I agree that it's not the most delicate building in Manhattan.

lakegz · #34 Posted **Dec 26, 2011, 2:33 PM**

Never really liked this building. Looks too fat and its top it just too big. I dislike the pink color most of all as it makes it look like a giant toy toddler trying to fit in with all of NY's adult skyscrapers.

NYC4Life · #35 Posted **Dec 28, 2011, 5:24 PM**

The first modern tower that began the 8th Avenue renaissance.

IntoTheLens827 · #36 Posted **Feb 22, 2012, 8:34 PM**

Here is a video I shot a few minutes ago. I finally know the name of this building! :-)

• Video Link

THE BIG APPLE · #37 Posted **Feb 23, 2012, 5:48 AM**

Hell's Attik

OptimumPx · #38 Posted **Feb 23, 2012, 11:41 AM**

When I went to NYC in 2010 I stayed at the Belvedere Hotel on 48th St, and our room looked out over Worldwide Plaza.

CarlosV · #39 Posted **Feb 23, 2012, 10:36 PM**

this is David Child's creation..the same architect who is giving us One World Trade Center!!!!!

i love the top..but HATE the bottom....is is a dark un-welcomed retail space....

THE BIG APPLE · #40 Posted **Feb 23, 2012, 10:38 PM**

^ Hey but atleast it's the closest thing we have gotten to Art Deco in the last 30/40 some years, and it kicked off the 8th Ave renaissance.