High-Rise Architecture

: One Court Square – study n.2
On late afternoons One Court Square higrise turns in a huge beacon and its glare imposes itself on Manhattan movers’ eyes. Long Island City .
Photo: Riccardo Budini

: GE Building (former RCA Building) – Study n.2
30 Rockefeller Plaza – Manhattan. architect Raymond Hood – 1933
This Art Deco Skyscraper is one my top favorites –
Photo: Riccardo Budini

: INAIL Tower (former Alitalia and IBM tower) – Rome – Italy
Photo: Riccardo Budini

: Three favorites in one take: The Seagram Building – ( Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson) and Ordinary ( Alexander Calder ).
Photo: Riccardo Budini

: Empire State Building – study n. 3 – Shreve, Lamb & Harmon 1931 – Manhattan
Photo: Riccardo Budini

: Empire State Building – study n. 2 – Shreve, Lamb & Harmon 1931 – Manhattan
Photo: Riccardo Budini

: The Shard – Renzo Piano Architect – London 2012
The Shard is the tallest building in the United Kingdom, the tallest building in the European Union
Photo: Riccardo Budini

: Long Island City’s skyline is growing across the Hudson’s water from Manhattan
Photo: Riccardo Budini

: One Court Square – study n.1 On late afternoons One Court Square higrise turns in a huge beacon and its glare imposes itself on Manhattan movers’ eyes.
Photo: Riccardo Budini

: Headquarters of the United Nations – Niemeyer, Le Corbusier, Harrison & Habramovitz – 1948
Two masters at work on a masterpiece
photo: Riccardo Budini

: Citigroup Center, architect Hugh Stubbin – structural engineer William LeMessurier – 1977
Diane Hartley, a student from Princeton University discovered a failure in structural calculations that originated the “fifty-nine-story crisis”
Photo: Riccardo Budini

: Citigroup Center, architect Hugh Stubbin – structural engineer William LeMessurier – 1977
Diane Hartley, a student from Princeton University discovered a failure in structural calculations that originated the “fifty-nine-story crisis”
Photo: Riccardo Budini

: Empire State Building – study n. 4 – Shreve, Lamb & Harmon 1931 – Manhattan Photo: Riccardo Budini

: GE Building (former RCA Building) – Study n.1 30 Rockefeller Plaza – Manhattan. architect Raymond Hood – 1933

: Zaha Hadid – Maxxi museum – Rome, Italy 2009
photo: Riccardo Budini

: Headquarters of the United Nations – Niemeyer, Le Corbusier, Harrison & Habramovitz – 1948
Two masters at work on a masterpiece
photo: Riccardo Budini

: Laurentina Tower ( also known as Telecom Tower) – 1982 – is the tallest building of the city of Rome.
Photo: Riccardo Budini

: IAC Headquarters – Frank Ghery Architect – New York City 2007
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CLIENT

N.A.

LOCATION

Varies

PHOTOGRAPHER

Riccardo Budini

CATEGORY

Contemporary Architecture

YEAR

2008-2017

At Looma I don’t only work on commercial assignment, I’m also more than enthusiast about getting myself involved in small to large editorial projects and in all kind of research activity related to architecture photography.
This photo series about highrise architecture is part of a variegated and non strictly commercial activity I do for publication in magazines and books. As almost any other series that stems from personal exploration, it is permanently unfinished and it gets progressively refined from time to time.
I photograph these contemporary architectures on different times and I often arrange the results of my research in studies, chronologically sorted and numbered.

Many of the photos in this series are previously unpublished

Photos and text: Riccardo Budini

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