Woolworth Building Woolworth Building The Woolworth Building, at 233 Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, designed by architect Cass Gilbert and constructed between 1910 and 1912, is an early US skyscraper. The original site for the building was purchased by F. W. Woolworth and his real estate agent Edward J. Hogan by April 15, 1910, from the Trenor Luther Park Estate and other owners for $1.65 million. By January 18, 1911, Woolworth and Hogan had acquired the final site for the project, totaling $4.5 million. More than a century after its construction, it remains, at , one of the 100 tallest buildings in
Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design The Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design, abbreviated as The Cass and nicknamed the "Aldgate Bauhaus", is an art school that forms part of the London Metropolitan University. It was founded in 2012 from the merger of London Guildhall University's Faculty of Art, Media and Design and North London University's Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Design, though through predecessors of those two institutions, it has a history stretching back to the 1800s. It is now housed almost entirely in the refurbished Central House, a 1970s building in Aldgate,