By the time we were in Manhattan, it was almost time for lunch. Lunch break at Seagram Building anyone?:
Seagram was designed by another famous architect Mies van der Rohe (Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright and he are the three fathers of architecture; and I got to see all three's finest works!!):
The unique thing about that building is its huge open space in front of the building:
Which draws the lunch-ing people to it like bees to honey. This is what its original intention was to begin with, redefining the Manhattan streetscape.
Totally unintentional picture (which turns out to be nice):
And this has Mies's signature all over: I-beams:
Finally, we got to go to Guggenheim again:
We couldn't take any pictures up the spiral and the exhibition spaces; picture taking was confined to only the first floor:
The famous roof and spiral:
The featured artist in the Museum was Louise Bourgeois. And this is her spider:
Interesting museum. My tutor once told me how unsettling it was to be in it and I did not understand. But now that I stood at the top of the spiral and looked down, at all the people walking under you, it was extremely dizzying...Next visit was to the Empire State Building:
Don't get me started with the queue... Any longer and we would have to camp overnight there.
But the 360 view was so worth it...
Don't get me started with the queue... Any longer and we would have to camp overnight there.
But the 360 view was so worth it...East side:
North-east side:
North side (can you see Central Park in the middle and Times Square to the left?):
King Kong?:
More of Uptown Manhattan:
The top of the Empire State:
The west side:
I think that is New Jersey:
Fear of heights?:
Downtown Manhattan, south side:
Liberty Island in the distance (top right):
Brooklyn Bridge in the top left corner:
Flatiron building (another iconic building apart from Empire State and Chrysler Building) in the centre:
I love this picture:
Zombie-fied:
New Art Museum by SANAA in SoHo:
The Washington Square Arch (fenced up for some construction work...):
Some random art installation:
Cooper Union:
Our future school?:
Grand Central Station!:
This was where Cyclops made a hole through the roof in X-Men:
From the outside:
Beside it was the Chrysler Building:
And our last building for the night was the UN Building, it was designed by Wallace Harrison, Le Corbusier, Oscar Niemeyer to name a few:
North-east side:
North side (can you see Central Park in the middle and Times Square to the left?):
King Kong?:
More of Uptown Manhattan:
The top of the Empire State:
The west side:
I think that is New Jersey:
Fear of heights?:
Downtown Manhattan, south side:
Liberty Island in the distance (top right):
Brooklyn Bridge in the top left corner:
Flatiron building (another iconic building apart from Empire State and Chrysler Building) in the centre:
I love this picture:
Zombie-fied:
New Art Museum by SANAA in SoHo:
The Washington Square Arch (fenced up for some construction work...):
Some random art installation:
Cooper Union:
Our future school?:
Grand Central Station!:
This was where Cyclops made a hole through the roof in X-Men:
From the outside:
Beside it was the Chrysler Building:
And our last building for the night was the UN Building, it was designed by Wallace Harrison, Le Corbusier, Oscar Niemeyer to name a few:
Tune in for more NYC pictures...
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