ROCKEFELLER CENTER Jonathan Bassett Dandi Zhang Katie McNulty
“I believe in the sacredness of a promise”
-Excerpt from Inscription in Rockefeller Center by John D. Rockefeller 1941
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Collage of spectral Radio City in midtown
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RCA Building
Radio City Music Hall Associated Press International North
British Empire Building Sunken Plaza Uniroyal Building La Maison Franciase Eastern Airlines Building
One Rockefeller Plaza
Site Location and Composition
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Observation Deck Level
24th Level
9th Level
Ground Level
Tunnel Level
RCA Building Typical Floor Plan
Exploded Composition of the Complex Spacial Hierarchy
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Longitudinal Section of the Complex
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Transverse Section of Radio City Music Hall
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CULTURAL IDENTITY Dreamland Resurrection Social Vision Collaboration Design Visions
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Cultural Identity
DREAMLAND Resurrection Social Vision Collaboration Design Visions
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Cultural Identity Dreamland
RESURRECTION Social Vision Collaboration Design Visions
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Cultural Identity Dreamland Resurrection
SOCIAL VISION Collaboration Design Visions
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Cultural Identity Dreamland Resurrection Social Vision
COLLABORATION
Design Visions
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“Phantom“ scheme
First official Radio City
Hanging Gardens
Definitive Scheme Postcards Proposals
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BOURGEOISIE Broadcast Garden-Scape Nationalism Showcase Ambition Dreamland Envision
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Bourgeoisie
BROADCAST Garden-Scape Nationalism Showcase Ambition Dreamland Envision
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Bourgeoisie Broadcast
GARDEN-SCAPE Nationalism Showcase Ambition Dreamland Envision
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Bourgeoisie Broadcast Garden-Scape
NATIONALISM Showcase Ambition Dreamland Envision
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Bourgeoisie Broadcast Garden-Scape Nationalism
SHOWCASE Ambition Dreamland Envision
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Bourgeoisie Broadcast Garden-Scape Nationalism Showcase
AMBITION Dreamland Envision
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THE GRAND ILLUSION “The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it’s always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant� -Salvador Dali Completed in the early twentieth century, Rockefeller Center of New York City is the realization of the promise of Manhattan. Magnificence, utility, and pride merge to generate the most iconic complex of its time. As the first broadcasting architecture, Rockefeller Center serves as a symbol of modernity and capitalism. Radio and television transmissions reach all corners of the globe, bringing about The Grand Illusion. Rockefeller Center disseminates prescribed expectancies to the world, embodying a dreamscape where tangibility and reality become lost at the scale of the individual. Thus, exemplifying the social condenser that is Manhattan.
Statement
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Media Invading Households in 30s
Grand Illusion
The Underground Carnival
From Virtual To Reality Iterations
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Final Transformation One
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Final Transformation Two
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