Rockefeller NYC

Plans of the Macleay Regis apartments show a striking similarity to the Rockefeller Apartments, a pair of twelve storey buildings in West 54th Street, Manhattan, designed by architect Wallace Harrison and completed in 1936. The buildings were reviewed in several American architectural journals that were available to local architects, so the Macleay Regis’ architects, Pitt and Phillips, may well have been influenced by this source.

Here’s a series of links that describe these buildings:

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/MID/MID044.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/15/garden/15rockefeller.html

http://www.emporis.com/application/?nav=building&id=rockefellerapartments,southbuilding-newyorkcity-ny-usa&lng=3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Harrison

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3404707094.html

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_8_37/ai_54454985/pg_2/