Flatiron Building

Also known as: Fuller Building
Built: 1902
Designed by: Daniel H. Burnham
Type: Skyscraper
Maximum Height: 285 feet / 87 meters
Location: Fifth avenue between 22nd and 23rd streets, New York, United States


It is not well known among those not from the area, or not in the historic architecture, the Flatiron building is a favorite of New Yorkers and admirers around the world. Perhaps because it symbolizes a lot of New Yorkers how they see themselves - Defiant, bold, and sophisticated, and interesting. Grime with only an integral part enough and soot to highlight the details. Irons feature the most interesting is its shape - a slender hull plowing the streets in the commercial off the bow as a large ocean liner plows through the waves of its domain. Top of the building is just six feet wide, and expanding into a limestone wedge adorned with Gothic details and the Renaissance of Greek faces and terra cotta flowers. Construction of two claims to fame - one for architectural and other cultural. There are those who consider to be the Flatiron Building skyscraper in New York City first. It's definitely one of the first buildings in the city to hire a steel frame to stand up and faced 285 feet tall, but not for the first time. According to some form (such as iron) was less technical and more dangerous. They thought he would go down more, and during the process of construction and dubbed Flatiron Building "in Burnham folly." Cultural heritage of the building is a bit more interesting, has passed into the social consciousness and a local legend. It is said that the building created unusual eddies in the wind that will cause women's skirts to fly around as they walked in the street 23. That attract crowds of young people who had gathered to view the scene naked men. And the police to try to disperse these knots of heavy breathers by calling to them, "23 Skidoo". This phrase passed from common use, but her descendants, the word "Scram" is still in the back corner of the American lexicon.