30 Rockefeller Plaza
- Architect
- Raymond Hood
- Year
- 1933
- Style
- Art Deco
- City
- Manhattan, NY
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30 Rockefeller Plaza, completed in 1933, is the centerpiece skyscraper of Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan, designed by Raymond Hood, the complex's lead architect, in the Art Deco style. At 66 stories and 850 feet, it was the third-tallest building in the world when it opened. Known for decades as the RCA Building and then the GE Building, it was renamed for owner Comcast in 2015 and remains home to NBC's headquarters and studios, giving rise to the nickname "30 Rock."
the building
Three-part massing. The building's massing is composed of three parts: a 66-story tower to the east, a windowless central section, and a 16-story annex to the west.
Broadcast home. 30 Rockefeller Plaza houses the headquarters and New York studios of NBC, and the building's nickname, 30 Rock, later inspired the NBC sitcom of the same name.
the style
Raymond Hood designed the tower in the Art Deco style, giving Rockefeller Center's centerpiece the streamlined, vertically emphasized massing that made it a textbook example of the 1933 skyscraper idiom.
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Raymond Hood served as Rockefeller Center's lead architect, with 30 Rockefeller Plaza as the complex's defining tower.
significance
The tallest structure in Rockefeller Center, 30 Rockefeller Plaza is the 28th-tallest building in New York City and the 65th-tallest in the United States, and ranked third-tallest in the world upon its 1933 completion.
nearby
- Rockefeller Center
- Radio City Music Hall
- 1270 Avenue of the Americas
- Exxon Building
- Saks Fifth Avenue
- CBS Building