New York City. Attractions. Map. Tours. Hotels. Facts. Buildings. Posters. Pictures. A View On Cities. New York City. New York Attractions. American Radiator Building. Loading.... Statue of Liberty. Brooklyn Bridge. Times Square. Empire State Building. Central Park. Chrysler Building. Grand Central Terminal. Rockefeller Center. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Fifth Avenue. Memorial. MoMA. Wall Street. Ellis Island. United Nations HQ. Bryant Park. High Line. Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. Flatiron Building. Guggenheim Museum. Lincoln Center. Woolworth Building. Madison Square. South Street Seaport. Metlife Tower. Tudor City. Madison Square Garden. New York Public Library. St. Patrick's Cathedral. Grant's Tomb. Coney Island. Columbus Circle. Museum of Natural History. Plaza Hotel. More New York Attractions.... American Radiator Building. Bryant Park Hotel. Info. Location/Map. Nearby. Photos. Rating. votes. votes. Links. -. bryantparkhotel.com. In this stunning black-and-gold building added new character to New York's. Bryant Park. area.. Something Different. American Radiator. Building. For Raymond Hood, what started out as a small job designing radiator 
covers became so much more. When the American Radiator and Standard 
Sanitary Company decided to build a new showroom and office building on 
40th Street near. Fifth Avenue. the company turned to the man who had been creating their radiator 
covers and asked him to come up with a design for their new 
headquarters. Just a few months prior, Hood had become instantly famous 
for his unique winning design for the. Chicago Tribune building. and American Radiator was just one of many companies that pursued his talents.. Hood didn't let them down. The result was a twenty-three-story, free 
standing mid-block office tower that was like nothing else in the. Bryant Park. neighborhood... or in all of NYC, for that matter. Hood's design, which
 called for a black brick exterior, was far different from the stodgy 
brownstones that were prevalent in the area. Hood explained that he 
chose the black brickwork to "lessen the visual contrast between the 
walls and the windows and give the tower an effect of solidity and 
massiveness" The result was stunning.. The Art Deco crown. The tower is neo-Gothic as is the magnificent bronze and marble 
entryway. Other aspects of the building are more akin to Art Deco, a 
style that would take the world by storm by the middle of the 1920s. 
Gilded terra cotta ornaments crown the tower. The four-story base 
features bronze plating and black granite. Bronze carved allegories sit 
at the top of the base.. Inside, the lobby was decorated with mirrors and black marble. The 
basement once held a large showroom, where the latest in boilers and 
furnaces were displayed to the buying public.. The American Radiator Building was officially declared a New York City 
Landmark in It was later sold to the American Standard Company 
and then a Japanese firm called Clio Biz. In the 1990s, British 
Architect David Chipperfield transformed the building into the Bryant 
Park Hotel, a charming boutique establishment.. Next:. George Washington Bridge. Next Skyscraper:. Chanin Building. [. New York City Skyscrapers. ]. Subway. 42nd St/Bryant Park (B,D,F,V). Location. West 40th Street at Bryant Park. nyc. x. Press ESC to close. powered by. www.aviewoncities.com.