vintagemanhattanskyline:

The 21-story and 134-meters-high (equivalent to a normal 40-story skyscraper), windowlees New York Telephone Switching Building. 811 Tenth Avenue between West 53rd to 54th streets, Kahn & Jacobs. Architects, 1961-1963. 

View looking northwest of the New York Telephone Switching Building, during its construction, in Spring 1962.

Photo: Andy Barbera.

Source: Architectural Forum. December, 1962.

danismm:

Residential Building “Kautz” in St. Johann at the Saar, Germany 1908. Arch. G. Schmoll.

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