1271 Avenue of the Americas is a 48-story skyscraper on Sixth Avenue, between 50th Street and 51st Street, in Midtown Manhattan, a neighborhood of New York City. Designed by Wallace Harrison of Harrison, Abramovitz, and Harris, the building was developed between 1956 and 1960 as part of Rockefeller Center. The building's eight-story base partially wraps around its 48-story main shaft. The facade comprises glass panels between limestone columns. The lobby has walls of white marble and stainless steel walls, and red-burgundy glass ceilings, with artwork by Josef Albers, Fritz Glarner, and Francis Brennan. The ground floor also includes storefronts. Each of the upper floors covers 28,000 sq ft (2,600 m2), with the offices arranged around the core. Construction started in May 1957, the building was topped out during November 1958, and the occupants took possession in late 1959. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the lobby as a city landmark in 2002.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1271_Avenue_of_the_Americas> _______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries: 1948: The Finnish Security Police was established to remove communist leadership from its predecessor, the State Police. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Security_and_Intelligence_Service> 1967: Harold Holt, the prime minister of Australia, disappeared while swimming near Portsea, Victoria; his body was never recovered. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Harold_Holt> 1970: Polish soldiers fired at workers (memorial pictured) emerging from trains in Gdynia, beginning the government's crackdown on mass anti-communist protests across the country. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_Polish_protests> 2010: Arab Spring: Mohamed Bouazizi, a street vendor in Sidi Bouzid, set himself on fire in protest against police harassment, triggering the Tunisian revolution. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Bouazizi> _____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day: Wheel of Fortune: 1. (mythology, philosophy) The mythological wheel turned randomly by Fortuna, the Roman goddess of fate, fortune, and luck, to determine people's fortunes which were thus unpredictable. 2. (by extension) 3. (gambling) Synonym of Big Six wheel (“a game of chance consisting of a vertically mounted wheel divided into equal marked sectors; the winning sector is the one indicated by a pointer when the wheel stops turning”) 4. 5. (tarot) A tarot card with an image of Fortuna's wheel (sense 1), generally the tenth of 22 trumps of the major arcana in most tarot decks. <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wheel_of_Fortune> ___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day: I believe in God, not in a Catholic God, there is no Catholic God, there is God and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being. --Pope Francis <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pope_Francis> _______________________________________________ Wikipedia Daily Article mailing list. To unsubscribe write to: [email protected] Questions or comments? Contact [email protected]
