32 Avenue of the Americas Building

The 32 Avenue of the Americas Building is an Art-deco skyscraper designed by Voorhees, Gmelin and Walker, and built between 1929 and 1932 in New York, NY.

32 Avenue of the Americas Building is not the only name you might know this building by though. It is common for companies to want to attach their names to iconic buildings when they move in, or for the general public to come up with nicknames, and this one is no exception. The 32 Avenue of the Americas Building is also known, or has been known as, AT&T Long Lines Building, AT&T Building, or 32 Sixth Avenue.

Its precise street address is 32 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY. You can also find it on the map here.

The 32 Avenue of the Americas 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 32 Avenue of the Americas Building was officially declared as a national landmark on October 1^st 1991.

The building underwent a major restoration between 2001 and 2001. The architect commissioned to undertake this restoration was Fox & Fowle Architects .

Voorhees, Gmelin and Walker was the architecture firm in charge of the architectural design.

That being said, architecture is a complex discipline involving 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 at the very least we know that there was one other part involved, that was Hildreth Meière as the collaborating Artist.

The 32 Avenue of the Americas Building can be categorized as an Art-deco building.

The 32 Avenue of the Americas Building was completed in 1932, right when the Art Deco movement was at its peak, so it kind of went with the trend at that time.

The 32 Avenue of the Americas 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 a non-load bearing masonry facade. This type of facade became common during the period when buildings, especially taller ones, transitioned from load-bearing wall systems to frame structures.

Frame structures allowed facades to be independent from the building's frame, enabling the use of lighter materials and larger openings. However, it took some time for architects to incorporate these new posibilities into their designs, and so for a while they simply replicated the look and feel fo buildings people where used to seeing.

From an aesthetic point of view, the facade features bricks in numerous tones, mainly red and brown, and it is topped with parapets on the roof.

Other materials found at the 32 Avenue of the Americas Building include, bronze, used in entrance grille obove the bronze doors and in the decorations details, white terrazzo, found in the lobby floor, pink marble , used on the lower part of the walls , red-tiles, found covering the pilasters on the walls, and colored stucco, used in some of the ceilings.