In New York, USA,… the without exaggeration “Mecca of skyscrapers”, the Empire State Building and the World Trade Center may be the “trademark” of the city, however, another tower with 23 floors and a height of 103 meters, is the epitome of Art Deco.

This is the American Radiator Building (also known as the American Standard Building).

It is one of the first skyscrapers built in the city and is located at 40 West 40th Street, just south of Bryant Park, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York.

Designed by Raymond Hood and André Fouilhoux in Gothic and Art Deco styles for the American Radiator Company. The original part of the American building was completed in 1924.

A five-story annex, to the west of the original tower, was built from 1936 to 1937.

The original structure consists of an eighteen-story tower above a five-story base, while the west wing rises only five stories. The facade of the American Radiator building is made primarily of black brick.

Golden decorations are used on the back and on the tops of the building.

Hood intended the original structure to be a stand-alone axis, which required the building to be set back from the lot line and reduce the maximum available space.

Inside, the basement, first and second floors were originally designed as exhibition spaces, while the upper floors served as office space.

The building was completed five years before the American Radiator Company merged with the Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Company to form the American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corporation, later known as American Standard.

American Standard sold the building in 1988 to a Japanese company.

The main building was sold in 1998 to Philip Pilevsky, who opened the Bryant Park Hotel there in 2001.

The branch operated as the Katharine Gibbs School from 2001 to 2009 and became Guttman Community College of the City University of New York in 2012.

The American Radiator Building is a New York City landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

With information from wikipedia