Study for Maximum Mass Permitted by the 1916 New York Zoning Law, Stage 4
date: label: Date
content: 1922
name: label: Artist
content: Hugh Ferriss, American, 1889–1962
notes: label: Description
content: Rendering of very dark, monumental high-rise building consisting of tall set back central tower, flanked by two smaller towers, each with set back upper stories. Dramatic "fan" of light rays in background. This is an early proposal for the set back skyscraper form that was to characterize many skyscrapers built from the mid-1920s to the ca.1950s.
place: label: designed in
content: New York, New York, USA
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Hugh Ferriss
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1969-137-4
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Black crayon, stumped, pen and black ink, brush and black wash, varnish on illustration board
label: Dimensions
content: 66.8 × 51 cm (26 5/16 × 20 1/16 in.)