The Rockefeller Centre
W 48th - 51st Streets, between 5th and 6th Avenues, New York City
The Rockefeller Centre, constructed between 1932 and 1940, was conceived by John D Rockefeller Jr as the first large-scale, privately-funded, mixed-use urban renewal project in the United States.
The centrepiece of the multi-building complex is the Raymond Hood -designed 70-storey RCA Building which, in common with many of the buildings and public spaces throughout the Centre, is liberally adorned with the work of some of the leading US sculptors of the Deco era.
You can see more pictures and find out more (but not much more) by visiting the Rockefeller Centre pages on the rather patronising official New York City tourism website.
The images on this page were taken by Art Deco World in April 2000.
RCA Building - view from E 48th Street near 5th Avenue.
RCA Building - view from Rockefeller Plaza.
RCA Building with Rockefeller Plaza in the foreground.
Prometheus - sculpture by Paul Manship, Rockefeller Plaza (1934).
Sculpture (original companion piece to Prometheus) by Paul Manship, Rockefeller Plaza (1934). Sculpture (original companion piece to Prometheus) by Paul Manship, Rockefeller Plaza (1934).
Hermes - relief sculpture.
RCA Building - Sound - detail of main entranceway relief sculpture by Lee Lawrie.
RCA Building - Wisdom - detail of main entranceway relief sculpture by Lee Lawrie.
RCA Building - Wisdom - main entranceway relief sculpture by Lee Lawrie.
RCA Building - Wisdom - view from below of main entranceway relief sculpture by Lee Lawrie.
RCA Building - view from the north east corner.
Rockefeller Centre - RCA Building (centre at rear) with view of public space between buildings, from the north east.
Rockefeller Centre - entranceway relief sculpture on 5th Avenue.
Atlas - sculpture by Lee Lawrie (1937).
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