{"id":543,"date":"2017-08-05T23:53:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/?p=543"},"modified":"2017-08-05T23:54:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:54:02","slug":"albany-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/2017\/08\/05\/albany-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"Albany – NY"},"content":{"rendered":"

Albany is the\u00a0capital\u00a0of the\u00a0U.S. state\u00a0of\u00a0New York.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Empire State Plaza, a collection of state agency office buildings, dominates almost any view of Albany. Built between 1965 and 1978 at the hand of Governor\u00a0Nelson A. Rockefeller\u00a0and architect\u00a0Wallace Harrison, the complex is a powerful example of late American\u00a0modern architecture\u00a0and remains a controversial building project both for displacing city residents and for its architectural style.<\/p>\n

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The Empire State Plaza consists of various steel and\u00a0reinforced concrete\u00a0buildings, all clad in imported stone (except The Egg, which fully exposes its concrete structure). The buildings are placed on a six-story stone-clad Main Platform, supported by more than 25,000\u00a0steel pilings\u00a0driven an average of 70 feet (21\u00a0m) into soft\u00a0glacial clay\u00a0deposits underlying the site.<\/p>\n

The placement of starkly abstract geometric building forms on a monolithic plaza is said to represent Rockefeller’s concept of architecture as similar to sculpture. The exterior columns and narrow windows of the buildings resemble the style of the former\u00a0World Trade Center\u00a0towers in New York City, which were completed around the same time.<\/p>\n

The Agency office buildings<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Erastus Corning Tower\"\"<\/p>\n

Completed in 1966 and sided with Vermont Pearl marble and glass.\u00a0At 589 feet (180 m) and 44 stories in height, it is the\u00a0tallest skyscraper in the state of New York\u00a0outside of the city of\u00a0New York.<\/p>\n

The Egg\"\"<\/p>\n

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The building was designed by\u00a0Harrison & Abramovitz\u00a0as part of the\u00a0Empire State Plaza\u00a0project, and built between 1966 and 1978.<\/p>\n

The building is held by a stem that goes down six stories into the Plaza. Attached to this stem is a\u00a0concrete\u00a0girdle that surrounds The Egg, enabling it to retain its shape and transmitting its weight to the pedestal.<\/p>\n

Cultural Education Center<\/p>\n

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Robert Abrams Building for Law and Justice<\/p>\n

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Legislative Office Building (LOB)<\/p>\n

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The New York State Capitol<\/p>\n

the building was completed in 1899 at a cost of US$25 million (equivalent to $720 million in 2016), making it the most expensive government building of its time.\u00a0It was listed on the\u00a0National Register of Historic Places\u00a0in 1971.<\/p>\n

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The present Capitol was built between 1867 and 1899. Three teams of architects worked on the design of the Capitol during the 32 years of its construction. They were managed by: 1867-75:\u00a0Thomas Fuller, 1875\u201383:\u00a0Leopold Eidlitz\u00a0and\u00a0Henry Hobson Richardson, 1883-99:\u00a0Isaac G. Perry. Fuller, the initial architect, was an Englishman who also designed the Canadian Parliament buildings of\u00a0Parliament Hill, Ottawa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Albany is the\u00a0capital\u00a0of the\u00a0U.S. state\u00a0of\u00a0New York. The\u00a0Empire State Plaza, a collection of state agency office buildings, dominates almost any view of Albany. Built between 1965 and 1978 at the hand of Governor\u00a0Nelson A. Rockefeller\u00a0and architect\u00a0Wallace Harrison, the complex is a powerful example of late American\u00a0modern architecture\u00a0and remains a controversial building project both for displacing city … Continue reading “Albany – NY”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}