Flatiron Building

There's a dance and a rhythm and a poetry to the way that they are building these buildings.

And there's a reason why the New York Skyline, the Flatiron Building, Rockefeller Plaza, World Trade Center, Empire State Building, Chrysler Building are the greatest, these great monuments, right? Kind of like the Renaissance.

And then it stops.

And then we don't have that kind of, those buildings anymore.

They invited us.

Our editor was Flatiron Books, which was an imprint of Macmillan at the time in the famous Flatiron building.

Yeah.

And so they invited us to come do a pickling workshop for editors, people in the publishing world.

Wow.

He was in the Flatiron building where we worked and rode the elevator with him and his crew.

Wow.

2015, still dressed like Michael Jackson.

Came back, hung out with them for another hour in line because we didn't have anywhere to be, and they wanted to spend time together.

And then hopped on the subway and went up to the Flatiron building, which is very cool.

Under construction.

It's very Disney right now.

And I was like, I'm really sorry.

She's like, you are ridiculous.

So then we went back to the Flatiron Building and then we went the other direction.

Then that night was Harry.

The Dancing House in Prague, designed by Frank Gehry and Vlado Milunić, is nicknamed Fred and Ginger because its two towers resemble a pair of dancers, one in a flowing skirt.

The Flatiron Building in New York, completed in 1902, is only two meters wide at its narrowest point where two streets converge, and when it was built, many people assumed the wind would blow it over.

It did not blow over, but the wind patterns around its wedge shape were so strong that police had to shoo away men who gathered to watch women's skirts blow up, which is said to be one origin of the phrase twenty-three skidoo, since it stands near Twenty-Third Street.

The term skyscraper was first used in the 1880s, borrowed from nautical language where a skyscraper was the tallest sail on a ship.

A belvedere, from the Italian for beautiful view, is a structure or part of a building designed specifically to offer a scenic lookout.

It can be a tower, a cupola, or simply a room with large windows facing a landscape.

The Flatiron Building was not originally called the Flatiron.

Its official name was the Fuller Building, but New Yorkers nicknamed it after the flatirons used for pressing clothes because of its wedge shape.

It's one of the handful.

I think the Flatiron Building's like this too, where you can just write Hiten Samtani, the Flatiron Building, and it'll get there.

Yeah.

I really want that for the Promote HQ.

I'm going to give a bit more of an answer.

I'm going to say, I'm thinking about that Flatiron building, right? So I'm going to say he redesigned the building into an unusual shape, which resulted in the New York's Flatiron building that we know.

No, I'm going to, I'm going to give it, I'm not going to give it to any of you, really, because there's not enough detail.

He conducted a newly complex skyper needed emergency structure and strengthening, which is the obvious bit, you know.

But it's, no offense, it's kind of like a Mexican or some kind of village, you know? I mean, there's just people everywhere.

And the last time I was there, I went to go look at the Flatiron building.

And there's just people everywhere you can, I mean, you're walking in and I don't, you know, they were just kind of getting on my nerves.

It's just like, there was no room, man.