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Jul 19, 2024 · William Zeckendorf's X City was supposed to rival Rockefeller Center, but the dream city became today's UN Headquarters instead.
2 days ago · “Zeckendorf and Pei imagined, designed, and built large-scale urban projects imbued with substantive architecture, mixed in use, technological and financial ingenuity, a distinct modernist aesthetic, and bold new thinking about how people should live, work, move around, and entertain themselves in cities,” wrote architectural historian Marci M. Clark in a 2017 doctoral dissertation for the ...
3 days ago · The headquarters of the United Nations occupies a site beside the East River between 42nd and 48th Streets, on between 17 and 18 acres (6.9 and 7.3 ha) of land purchased from the real estate developer William Zeckendorf Sr. At the time, the site was part of Turtle Bay, which contained slaughterhouses and tenement buildings, as well as the ...
4 days ago · William Zeckendorf, who headed Webb & Knapp Inc., proposed in 1954 an 80-story, 4.8 million-square-foot tower that would replace Grand Central Terminal . I. M. Pei...
6 days ago · Designed by architectural firm Davis, Brody & Associates, and named in honor of prominent American real estate developer William Zeckendorf, it was one of New York City's most important development projects of the 1980s.
Jul 10, 2024 · As 20th Century-Fox grappled with the financial disaster of Cleopatra's ballooning budget, New York developer William Zeckendorf stepped in, offering a glimmer of hope in the form of a $5 million option for the studio's backlot.
Jul 5, 2024 · The location for the UN was also not a shoe-in. Originally on the site, developer William Zeckendorf, Sr. hoped to build a place called “X City,” a “Dream City” to rival Rockefeller Center.
