http://www.flickr.com/photos/steverosenbach/tags/knoxhatcompany/ Wed, 30 May 2012 02:48:09 -0700 Wed, 30 May 2012 02:48:09 -0700 http://www.flickr.com/ http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3645/buddyicons/74427950@N00.jpg?1237946722#74427950@N00 http://www.flickr.com/photos/steverosenbach/tags/knoxhatcompany/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/steverosenbach/7300831484/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/steverosenbach/">Steve Rosenbach</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/steverosenbach/7300831484/" title="Midtown: Knox Building &amp; HSBC Bank Tower"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7080/7300831484_ab63ba77d6_m.jpg" width="240" height="159" alt="Midtown: Knox Building &amp; HSBC Bank Tower" /></a></p> <p>On our Midtown Photo Safari, we leave the Library in order to visit it’s “back yard,” Bryant Park. We didn’t have to go far, just to the corner at Fifth Avenue and 40th Street, to our first major photo-opportunity, shown here.<br /> <br /> You’re looking at part of the HSBC Bank office complex, which consists of a modern 400-foot tower built over and incorporated into three previously-existing and much older builings. The most elegant of this attractive trio is the former Republic National Bank building, seen here in the lower left corner.<br /> <br /> This 1902 structure is one of the finest examples in NYC of applying the Beaux-Arts style to a commercial building. Architect John H. Duncan designed the building as headquarters for the Knox Hat Company, and it started life as the Knox Building. Republic National Bank purchased the building and had it remodeled into a bank building in 1965.<br /> <br /> The handsome tower was built in 1983. The architectural firm of Attia and Perkins designed the new addition with a staggard or stepped set of slabs over the old Knox Building. From the air, the staggering looks like a sawtoothed curve, and from the ground it provides a welcome change from the glass-and-steel boxes of that era.<br /> <br /> There are all to many cases of there goes the neighborhood! (architecturally speaking) when international-style towers invade a tract of Victorian-era buildings, but thankfully, this is not one of them.</p> Wed, 30 May 2012 02:48:09 -0700 2011-05-02T23:00:30-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (Steve Rosenbach) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/7300831484 Midtown: Knox Building & HSBC Bank Tower <p>On our Midtown Photo Safari, we leave the Library in order to visit it’s “back yard,” Bryant Park. We didn’t have to go far, just to the corner at Fifth Avenue and 40th Street, to our first major photo-opportunity, shown here.<br /> <br /> You’re looking at part of the HSBC Bank office complex, which consists of a modern 400-foot tower built over and incorporated into three previously-existing and much older builings. The most elegant of this attractive trio is the former Republic National Bank building, seen here in the lower left corner.<br /> <br /> This 1902 structure is one of the finest examples in NYC of applying the Beaux-Arts style to a commercial building. Architect John H. Duncan designed the building as headquarters for the Knox Hat Company, and it started life as the Knox Building. Republic National Bank purchased the building and had it remodeled into a bank building in 1965.<br /> <br /> The handsome tower was built in 1983. The architectural firm of Attia and Perkins designed the new addition with a staggard or stepped set of slabs over the old Knox Building. From the air, the staggering looks like a sawtoothed curve, and from the ground it provides a welcome change from the glass-and-steel boxes of that era.<br /> <br /> There are all to many cases of there goes the neighborhood! (architecturally speaking) when international-style towers invade a tract of Victorian-era buildings, but thankfully, this is not one of them.</p> Steve Rosenbach nyc newyorkcity newyork abstract architecture manhattan midtown photosafari phototours knoxbuilding photoinstruction knoxhatcompany