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The General Electric Building, also known as 570 Lexington Avenue, is a skyscraper at the southwestern corner of Lexington Avenue and 51st Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The building, designed by Cross & Cross and completed in 1931, was known as the RCA Victor Building during its construction.
30 Rockefeller Plaza (officially the Comcast Building; formerly RCA Building and GE Building) is a skyscraper that forms the centerpiece of Rockefeller Center in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, United States.
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The General Electric Building was originally designed and built for the RCA-Victor Corporation in order to project an image of great visibility for the company, which, at the end of 1920 was at the forefront of the radio industry and communications. Architects John Walter Cross and Eliot Cross of Cross & Cross, designed the building in a Gothic sty...
The General Electric Building fifty floors dedicated to office space. It is located in the center of Manhattan, in the southwest corner of Lexington Avenue and 51st Street East. The main facades facing east to Lexington Avenue, where is the main entrance, 570 Lexington Avenue, and north to 51st Street East. The building is immediately adjacent to t...
The most striking feature of this building is 196m tall extravagant coronation, a curious mixture of Gothic spiers of limestone with brick undulations and filigree ornaments in the shape of rays that represent the power of radio transmission waves sent by the Radio Corporation of America. At night, this “crown” is illuminated from the inside, so th...
Topped with a crown of needles, this Art Deco skyscraper is decorated with diagonal and zigzag designs that evoke associations with electricity. Its brick veneer with glazed terra cotta ornaments mixed with the materials of the adjacent church of St. Bartholomew. With much of its base hidden behind the church is a rare example of a friendly context...
The building is fairly conventional from a technical point of view. It is a skyscraper steel structure covered with brick and terra cotta. The slender octagonal tower General Electric Building rises from the twenty-sixth floor of the building, away from the silhouettes of the adjacent buildings. The unique needle characterizes the skyscraper as one...
On a base of red granite it rises three levels, 50 floors covered with terracotta brick orange and variegated shades rise slightly. On the facade of the ground floor, brick combined with large slabs of red marble dotted with numerous ornamental pieces of steel and in some sectors form rounded walls that highlight the manual work done in the period....
Learn about the history, design and features of the General Electric Building, a 50-story Art Deco skyscraper in New York City. See photos, plans and details of its Gothic-inspired crown, lobby and ornaments that symbolize radio and electricity.
Learn about the history, architecture, and art of the General Electric Building, a 70-story skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan. Find out how to visit this iconic Art Deco and Gothic building and its NBC studios.
The Rockefeller family moved out of their offices in the GE Building in 2014 due to rising rents. They re-settled in less expensive offices on 49th Street, near their old headquarters. The next year, in July 2015, the GE Building was renamed after Comcast, the parent company of NBCUniversal.
O imponente GE Building é o mais alto edifício do Rockfeller Center, antigamente chamado de RCA Building, no 30 Rockfeller Plaza. Tem diferentes entradas. O edifício abriga a rede de televisão NBC (National Broadcasting Company) e o famoso observatório Top of the Rock entre os andares 67 e 70.
The General Electric (GE) Building on Lexington Avenue was built in 1931 and is one of the many Art Deco era skyscrapers that define the city landscape. What we love about the GE building is the elaborate crown, which elaborately tops the building tower.
