TEN PERCENT OCCUPANCY:
NEW YORK CITY SKYSCRAPERS DURING COVID-19
These iconic skyscrapers are almost like memorial monuments in a city that had the motto "The City that never sleeps." These images are an assemblage that responds to how these structures take on a completely different character at the beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic. However-their visual power remains intact and the massive structures await to the time of a ‘new’ normal where the occupancy will return to the old normal, hopefully as both offices places and apartments.
Frank Schramm, 2021
GE Building formerly the RCA Building - 1933. 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Architect: Raymond Hood
80 Eighth Avenue - 1929. Architect: William Whitehead
The Fred F. French Building - 1927. 551 Fifth Avenue. Architect: H. Douglas Ives
One Penn Plaza - 1970. Architect: Ely Jacque Kahn
200 Amsterdam Avenue - 2021. Architect: Howard F. Elkus and David Manfredi
35 Hudson Yards - 2019. Architect: David Childs / Slidmore, Owing, & Merrill
500 Fifth Avenue - 1931. Architect: William F. Lam. Shreve, Lamb, & Harmon
The Mercantile Building - 1929. 10 East 40th Street. Architect: Ludlow & Peabody
Lefcourt Colonial Building - 1930. 295 Madison Avenue. Architect: Abraham E. Lefcourt
Lefcourt National Building - 1929. 521 Fifth Avenue. Architect: Shreve, Lamb, & Harmon
Atelier - 2007. 635 West 42nd Street. Architect: Costas Kondylis
Nelson Tower - 1931. 450 Seventh Avenue. Architect: H. Craig Severance
One Madison Avenue - 2013. Architect: Rem Koolhaas, Yabu Pushelberg
111 West 57th Street "Steinway Hall" - 2021. Architect: Shop Architects
500 Fifth Avenue - 1931. Architect: William F. Lamb - Shreve, Lamb & Harmon