2 Park Avenue Building

The 2 Park Avenue Building is an Art-deco skyscraper designed by Buchanan & Kahn Architects and built between 1926 and 1928 in New York, NY.

Its precise street address is 2 Park Avenue, New York, NY. You can also find it on the map here.

The 2 Park Avenue Building is a structure of significant importance both for the city of New York and the United States as a nation. The building embodies the distinctive characteristic features of the time in which it was built and the Art Deco style. Because of that, the 2 Park Avenue Building was officially declared as a national landmark on April 18^th 2006.

Buchanan & Kahn Architects was the architecture firm in charge of the architectural design.

Buchanan & Kahn Architects was in charge of the architectural design, however, architecture is a complex discipline, which usually involves many professionals from different fields, without whom this building would have not been possible. We will surely be leaving out a lot of names here, but here is a list of the people we do know also played their part in making the 2 Park Avenue Building a reality:

• Shroder & Koppel as the Main Contractor
• Abe N. Adelson as the Main Developer
• Léon-Victor Solon as the collaborating Artist

The 2 Park Avenue Building can be categorized as an Art-deco building.

The 2 Park Avenue Building was completed in 1928, right when the Art Deco movement was at its peak, so it kind of went with the trend at that time.

The 2 Park Avenue Building uses a frame structure made of steel columns and concrete slabs.

A frame structure uses a combination of beams and columns to sustain the building's weight. The walls in this case are non-load bearing, which allows for more flexibility when distributing the interior spaces.

The facade is non-load bearing either, as it is common in frame structure type buildings.

From an aesthetic point of view, the facade features a tan stone cladding on the frist three floors, with bricks covering the rest of the facade. At some points bricks are combined with some ornamented terracotta panels, such as on the 16th floor.