December, 2004

Life on Top of the World, Picture Show

 

Crow's Nest Like a Crow's Nest, the top of the Trinity Building in lower Manhattan, NYC, offers a conservatory-like view of the city. What the hell do people do up there?   [click on picture to enlarge]

Trinity Church Building, NYC

Trinity Church Building, lower Manhattan, NYC.

Temple in the Sky The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus piled on top of the bell tower of St. Mark's in Venice is the design concept behind 14 Wall Street. The original headquarters of Bankers Trust, when it was first built it was the world’s tallest bank building at 539 feet high. Like many early skyscrapers it took the Venetian bell as a model for its office tower, but unlike the rest became the first to top it off with a seven-story stepped pyramid modeled after one of the 7 wonders of the ancient world. The bank then took the pyramid as its trademark and took as its slogan “A Tower of Strength".

Behind 14 Wall St and partially obscurred by fog is the 72-story Donald Trump Building, 40 Wall Street, originally Bank of Manhattan Trust Building.

Life On Top of the World

Life on top of the world, in the shadows of the old World Trade Center. (Click to enlarge.) Question: What the hell do people do up there?! Answer: presumably sunbathe, shoot the breeze, play basketball.. and live the life.

Drapped Kingdom

Like a drapped kingdom, buildings in lower Manhattan are renovated from aftermath affects of September 11th.

Winged Lions take up sentry positions.