From the historically diverse communities to cosmopolitan hot spots, the Lower East Side, Bowery, and SoHo have a fascinating history captured by the area’s architecture, which we will experience.
From the historically diverse communities to cosmopolitan hot spots, the Lower East Side, Bowery, and SoHo have a fascinating history captured by the area’s architecture. During this tour, we discover this history by looking at some of the defining architectural typologies of these neighborhoods including the cast iron industrial spaces of Soho and tenement apartments of the LES as well stand-out contemporary buildings such as the New Museum by SANAA, and Cooper Union by Morphosis.
Famous building featured on this walking LES, SoHo, NoHo, East Village Architecture Tour:
New York by Frank Gehry, Frank Gehry, 2010
City Hall, J. Mangin & J. McComb, Jr., 1812
Tweed Courthouse, Kellum Leopold Eidlitz, 1881
Hall of Records / Surrogate’s Court, Horgan & Slattery, 1907
Municipal Building, McKim, Mead & White, 1914
Engine Co 31, Napoleon LeBrun & Sons, 1895
Chatham Towers, Kelly & Gruzen, 1965
Eldridge St. Synagogue, Herter Brothers, 1886
Lower E. Side Tenement Museum, 1863
Bowery Savings Bank, McKim, Mead & White, 1895
New Museum, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA), 2007
Little Singer Building, Ernest Flagg, 1904
Condict (Bayard Building), Louis Sullivan (Architect), 1898
NYU Silver Towers, I.M. Pei & Associates, 1966
51 Astor Place, Fumihiko Maki, 2014
Cooper Union,
Cooper Union Engineering, Morphosis, 2009
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