Wyndham New Yorker Hotel

The Wyndham New Yorker Hotel is an Art-deco skyscraper designed by Sugarman and Berger, and built between 1928 and 1929, for a reported $22.5 million dollars, in New York, NY.

Its precise street address is 481 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY. You can also find it on the map here.

At the time of its completion in 1929 the Wyndham New Yorker Hotel incorporated solutions that were quite advanced at the time, these included a power plant and a boiler room in its basement, which was an early example of a cogeneration plant. The hotel was also amongst the first to have a radio receiver in each room.

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 1999 and 2009.

Sugarman and Berger 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 here is a list of the people we do know also played their part in making the Wyndham New Yorker Hotel a reality:

• Mack Kanner as the Main Developer
• Lajos as the collaborating Artist

The Wyndham New Yorker Hotel can be categorized as an Art-deco building.

The Wyndham New Yorker Hotel was completed in 1929, right when the Art Deco movement was at its peak, so it kind of went with the trend at that time.

The Wyndham New Yorker Hotel 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 Deer Island granite on the ground floor combined with Indiana limestone, from there on it continues with warm gray bricks and terra cotta. Cast stone masonry decorate the lower floors .

Other materials found at the Wyndham New Yorker Hotel include, red and black marble, used on the stairs to the second floor and some walls and columns, terrazzo , found on the upper floors's surfaces, and terrazzo , which can be found in partitions installed in the lobbies partitions.