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Description
Facts
Address: 301 Park Avenue
Year of completion: 1931
Architect: Schultze & Weaver
Floors: 47
Typical floor area: 5,086m2
Podium floor area: 7,433m2
Height: 190.5m
Description
The skyscraper hotel at its peak, the Waldorf Astoria Hotel occupies an entire block (80% of which is above railway tracks). By virtue of its size and its complexity, it portrays Raymond Hood’s ideal of a city made up of self-sustaining individual buildings. Behind its 18-storey Park Avenue facade is a vast complex of restaurants, ballrooms, and hotel and apartment suites rising 29 more storeys in a slab suggesting twin towers. A covered drive ran through the building for the guests arriving by car and those arriving by train could enter the hotel directly from the tracks. The main floor level with the windowless main lobby is raised above street-level shops and hotel services.
Time & Place
301 Park Avenue, New York City, New York, USA
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