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    The document discusses eclectic architecture in public buildings and early skyscrapers around the turn of the 20th century. It provides examples of the New York Public Library, designed in the Beaux-Arts style, and the Bradbury Building in Los Angeles which introduced skylights and open elevators. The Woolworth Building in New York is highlighted for its Gothic exterior and Byzantine interior lobby, setting the record as the world's tallest building from 1913 to 1930.

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    The document discusses eclectic architecture in public buildings and early skyscrapers around the turn of the 20th century. It provides examples of the New York Public Library, designed in the Beaux-Arts style, and the Bradbury Building in Los Angeles which introduced skylights and open elevators. The Woolworth Building in New York is highlighted for its Gothic exterior and Byzantine interior lobby, setting the record as the world's tallest building from 1913 to 1930.

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    UNIT-1

    ECLECTISIM
    Sub Topic: Public building
    &
    Early skyscrapers
    LOVELY SCHOOL OF
    Lecture 03:
    ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN MEHAK VIJ
    LEARNING OUTCOME
    To appreciate eclectic style
    development in and style use
    in Public building & Early
    Skyscrapers
    Introduction:- Public Building
    • Around the turn of the century, city halls, public libraries,
    courthouses, churches and private homes on a scale were built
    by eclectic architects—projects that remain among the
    important structures of every major American city.

    • Where planning followed the sound concepts of Beaux-Arts


    teaching, and where eclectic historicism was controlled by a
    sense of what might be appropriate, the resulting buildings of
    what is sometimes called the American Renaissance remain
    serviceable and impressive.

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    Introduction
    • The New York Public Library by John M.Carrere (1858-1911)
    and Thomas Hastings(1860-1919), both Beaux-Arts trained and
    both ex-employees of McKim, Mead & White has a complex
    plan that arranges many handsomely detailed spaces around
    two interior courtyards with admirably efficient circulation.

    • The building continues to serve modern needs and recent


    restoration has made the interiors as impressive as they were
    when new.

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    Carrere and Hastings, Public library,
    New York,1902
    • The monumental library building was designed in the
    style the architects had absorbed when studied at
    Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

    • The handsome interior of the main reading room with


    its surrounding open shelves of book on two levels is
    flooded with light from the windows above.

    • It remains in current use for its original function.

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    Early skyscrapers

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    Introduction
    • Tall buildings, increasingly important in major cities as business
    needs and elements of civic and commercial pride pressured for
    height, posed problems for their designers that were only rarely
    well solved.

    • The reliance Building Chicago (1890-1895) by the same finally


    abandons masonry exterior walls in favors of “curtain walls” of
    iron, terracotta and glass that do not supported by a metal
    structural frame.

    • This is the system that became universally adopted for tall


    buildings, even when masonry exterior was desired.
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    George Herbert Wyman, Bradbury
    building in Los Angles, 1893
    • The emergence of the modern large office building posed new
    problems for architects of the eclectic era.

    • Wyman introduced the skylights of a central atrium to provide


    light for the galleries that took the place of dark corridors and
    gave access to the offices on many floors.

    • The elevators moving in open cages and the stairs connecting


    the various gallery levels present an image more functional
    than eclectic.
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    Cass gilbert, Woolworth building,
    New york 1913
    • Called a “cathedral of commerce,” the outside of the
    Woolworth buildings was clothed in Gothic Style detail.

    • In the public lobby, however, Gilbert turned to Byzantine


    detail, for which he used marble and Mosaics.

    • Sculpture provided a setting for entrances to the


    elevators that served the many stories of what was, for
    some years, the tallest building in the world.

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    Cass gilbert, Woolworth building,
    New york 1913
    • The symmetrical cruciform lobby welcomes visitors with
    spectacular decor.

    • It is adorned with Early Christian inspired barrel vault


    mosaics, a stained glass skylight, marble walls, bronze
    furnishings.

    • Ornate exterior cladding of cream terra cotta with blue and


    yellow glazed accents

    • The final building was an engineering and construction feat


    of its time: 792 feet tall, 60 floors, 206 million pounds, 15
    acres of floor area, 3000 exterior windows, 24,000 tons of
    steel, 17 million bricks and 7,500 tons of terra cotta

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    Record height
    Tallest in the world from 1913 to 1930
    Preceded by Metropolitan Life Insurance
    Company Tower
    Surpassed by (be better than 40 Wall Street
    ever before)
    General information
    Location 233 Broadway
    Manhattan, New York City
    Construction started 1910
    Completed 1913
    Opening April 24, 1913
    Cost US$13.5 million
    Owner Witkoff Group

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    Height
    Roof 241.4 m (792 ft)
    Technical details
    Floor count 57
    Lifts/elevators 34
    Design and construction
    Architect Cass Gilbert
    Structural engineer Gunvald Aus and Kort Berle

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