Van Alen Building the sea, and fully glazed balconies. These were installed instead of the intended opaque balconies at the request of the heritage bodies consulted, and are connected by Modernist-style "fins". 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
Tower Building (New York City) in 1914, just twenty six years had passed since the Tower Building's construction, and the tallest building in New York, the Woolworth Building, was over . Tower Building (New York City) The Tower Building was arguably New York City's first skyscraper, and the first building with a steel skeleton structure. Architect Bradford Gilbert filed plans for its construction on April 17, 1888, it was completed on September 27, 1889 and demolished beginning in 1913. The location in Manhattan is given variously as 50 Broadway and 52 Broadway, going through to New Street. Though it was deep, the building had just