60 Hudson Street Building

The 60 Hudson Street Building is an Art-deco skyscraper designed by Voorhees, Gmelin and Walker, and built between 1928 and 1930 in New York, NY.

60 Hudson Street Building is not the only name you might know this building by though. Between 1930 and 1983 it was also known as Western Union Building.

Its precise street address is 60 Hudson Street, New York, NY. You can also find it on the map here.

The 60 Hudson Street 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 60 Hudson Street Building was officially included in the New York Register of Historic Places on October 1^st 1991.

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 Newcomb Carlton as the Main Developer.

The 60 Hudson Street Building can be categorized as an Art-deco building.

The 60 Hudson Street Building was completed in 1930, right when the Art Deco movement was at its peak, so it kind of went with the trend at that time.

The 60 Hudson Street 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 19 different tones of red bricks, going from the darker on the lower floors to the lighter on the higher ones. This helps give theb uilding the apearance of being taller. This same bricks from a barrel vault at the building's entrance.

Other materials found at the 60 Hudson Street Building include, bronze, used in friezes windows frames, doorways and ventilation grates, glass, found in the galzed windows on the mains doors, and granite, used in three different tones to create geometric figures on the floors.