Van Alen Building Van Alen Building The Van Alen Building is a modern apartment and penthouse block on the seafront in Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. It was named after William Van Alen, the architect of New York City's Chrysler Building and is designed as a 21st-century interpretation of the Art Deco and Streamline Moderne styles. It was completed in 2001. Residential development along the north side of Marine Parade, a wide road leading eastwards along Brighton seafront across the top of East Cliff, began in about 1790 at the west end (nearest the old fishing village of
Bennett Building (New York City) In both cases, Farnsworth's additions carefully followed Gilman's original design. On November 21, 1995, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the building a New York City landmark. The Bennett Building is the tallest building in the world with an entirely cast-iron facade. In 1916, the Maiden Lane Historical Society erected a plaque on the building that reads: <poem>Nassau Street Known originally as “The Street that Runs by the Pye Woman” And was named in honor of The House of Nassau Whose head at the time was William the Third King of England And sometime Stadtholder of the Dutch