Daily News Building

The Daily News Building is an Art-deco skyscraper designed by Howells & Hood, and built between 1928 and 1930 in New York, NY.

Daily News Building is not the only name you might know this building by though. The building is, or has also been known as The News Building.

Its precise street address is 220 East 42nd Street, New York, NY. You can also find it on the map here.

The Daily News 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 Daily News Building was officially declared as a national landmark on June 29^th 1989, and was also included in the New York Register of Historic Places on July 28^th 1981.

The building has been restored 2 times over the years to ensure its conservation and adaptation to the pass of time. The main restoration works happened in 1960 and 1967.

Howells & Hood was the architecture firm in charge of the architectural design. But there was also one other architect involved, as far as we know. We are talking about John Mead Howells.

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 here is a list of the people we do know also played their part in making the Daily News Building a reality:

• Lockwood Greene & Company in charge of Structural Engineering
• Josepy Medill Patterson as the Main Developer
• René Chambellan as the collaborating Artist

The Daily News Building can be categorized as an Art-deco building.

The Daily News 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 Daily News 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 white bricks with multicolored reddish bricks spandrels, which emphathise the building's height. The lower 3 levels are cladded with limesone.

Other materials found at the Daily News Building include, plished granite, can be seen surrounding the main entrance, bronze, in fifferents ornamentation, black glass, used in the ceiling dome over the rotating world globe, and colored marble, was used in the floors.