Identify buildings in New York

Cast-iron lofts, Beaux-Arts stations, Art Deco towers and everything since. Point LookUp at any building in New York and it reads the style, the era and the details that give it away. These 358 landmarks it also knows by name and position: the one in front of you is recognised from where you stand, comes with its facts, and turns to colour on your New York map once you've captured it.

358 landmarks by name328 with facts on record22 traced silhouettes

Empire State Building, as LookUp draws it

One World Trade Center, as LookUp draws it

Metropolitan Museum of Art, as LookUp draws it

Monuments · 18

Statue of Liberty1886 · Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
Federal Hall1842 · John Frazee
Unisphere1964 · Gilmore David Clarke
Columbus Circle1892
Grant's Tomb1897 · John H. Duncan
Strawberry Fields1985
Japanese Peace Bell1952
African Burial Ground National Monument2006
Hamilton Grange National Memorial1962 · John McComb Jr.
Gay Liberation Monument1992
To the Struggle Against World Terrorism
Statue of Liberty National Monument1924
Bethesda Terrace and Fountain
Washington Square ArchStanford White
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site1923 · Theodate Pope Riddle
Columbus Monument1892
Cleopatra's Needle1500 BC
World Trade Center cross

Skyscrapers · 178

Empire State Building1931 · Shreve, Lamb & Harmon
One World Trade Center2014 · David Childs, Daniel Libeskind
Chrysler Building1930 · William Van Alen
Flatiron Building1902 · Daniel Burnham
Trump Tower1983 · Der Scutt
New York Times Building2007 · Renzo Piano
Bank of America Tower2009 · Cookfox
Woolworth Building1912 · Cass Gilbert
7 World Trade Center2006 · David Childs
40 Wall Street1930 · H. Craig Severance, Yasuo Matsui, Shreve, Lamb & Harmon
432 Park Avenue2015 · Rafael Viñoly
70 Pine Street1932 · Clinton and Russell
One572014 · Christian de Portzamparc
Central Park TowerAdrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, Adamson Associates, Adrian Smith
3 World Trade Center2018 · Richard Rogers
2 World Trade CenterNorman Foster
30 Rockefeller Plaza1933 · Raymond Hood
111 West 57th StreetSHoP Architects
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower1909 · Napoleon LeBrun
Citigroup Center1976 · KlingStubbins, Hugh Stubbins, Emery Roth & Sons
MetLife Building1963 · The Architects Collaborative, Pietro Belluschi
4 World Trade Center2008 · Fumihiko Maki
Trump World Tower2001 · Costas Kondylis
Seagram Building1958 · Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson
4 Times Square1999 · FXCollaborative
One VanderbiltKohn Pedersen Fox
28 Liberty Street1961
731 Lexington Avenue2005 · César Pelli
8 Spruce Street2011 · Frank Gehry
30 Hudson Yards2019 · Kohn Pedersen Fox
CitySpire1987 · Helmut Jahn
CBS Building1964 · Eero Saarinen
200 West Street2009 · Henry N. Cobb, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
20 Exchange Place1931 · Cross & Cross
Plaza Hotel1907 · Henry Janeway Hardenbergh
Hearst TowerFoster and Partners, George B. Post, Joseph Urban
345 Park Avenue1969 · Emery Roth & Sons
The San Remo1930 · Emery Roth
One Times Square1904 · Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz
Carnegie Hall Tower1991 · César Pelli
One Madison2013 · Cetra/Ruddy, Rem Koolhaas, Yabu Pushelberg
One Worldwide Plaza
383 Madison Avenue2001 · David Childs
One Penn Plaza1972 · Ely Jacques Kahn
200 Vesey Street1985 · César Pelli
One Liberty Plaza1974
Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower1927 · Mancini•Duffy
Exxon Building1972 · Wallace Harrison
One Astor Plaza1972 · Der Scutt
3 Park AvenueShreve, Lamb & Harmon
Solow Building1974 · Gordon Bunshaft
500 Fifth Avenue1931 · Shreve, Lamb & Harmon
Brooklyn TowerSHoP Architects
270 Park AvenueFoster and Partners
53W532007 · Jean Nouvel
30 Hudson Street2004 · César Pelli
1 Wall Street1932 · Ralph Thomas Walker
AXA Equitable Center1986 · Edward Larrabee Barnes
60 Wall Street1989 · Kevin Roche
30 Park Place2016 · Robert A.M. Stern Architects
550 Madison Avenue1984 · Philip Johnson, John Burgee
10 Hudson Yards2016 · Kohn Pedersen Fox
56 Leonard Street2016 · Herzog & de Meuron
Park Row Building1899 · R. H. Robertson
35 Hudson YardsKohn Pedersen Fox
General Electric Building1931 · Cross & Cross, John Walter Cross
660 Fifth Avenue1957 · Carson & Lundin
Bertelsmann Building1990
New York Life Building1928 · Cass Gilbert
One Court Square1990
One Grand Central Place1930 · J.E.R. Carpenter
Crowne Plaza Times Square1989
220 Central Park South2019 · Robert A.M. Stern Architects
33 Thomas StreetJohn Carl Warnecke
Times Square Tower2004
15 Hudson Yards2019 · Kohn Pedersen Fox, Diller Scofidio + Renfro
General Motors Building1968 · Edward Durell Stone, Emery Roth & Sons
Equitable Building1915 · Ernest R. Graham
80 South StreetSantiago Calatrava
Trump International Hotel and Tower1970 · Thomas E. Stanley
140 Broadway1967
300 Madison Avenue
599 Lexington Avenue1986 · Edward Larrabee Barnes
85 Broad Street
55 Hudson Yards2019 · Kohn Pedersen Fox
Metropolitan Tower1987
277 Park Avenue1963 · Emery Roth & Sons
55 Water Street1972 · Emery Roth & Sons
Morgan Stanley Building1990 · Emery Roth & Sons
Chanin BuildingSloan & Robertson
Barclay Tower2007 · Costas Kondylis
Paramount Plaza1970 · Emery Roth
Olympic Tower1974
14 Wall Street1912 · Trowbridge & Livingston, Shreve, Lamb & Harmon
Americas Tower1992 · Swanke Hayden Connell Architects
15 Penn PlazaCésar Pelli
Four Seasons Hotel New York1993 · I. M. Pei
Random House Tower2003
1095 Avenue of the Americas1974 · Ely Jacques Kahn
1717 Broadway2013
26 Broadway1928 · Carrère and Hastings
50 West Street2016 · Helmut Jahn
245 Park Avenue1967 · Shreve, Lamb & Harmon
BellTel Lofts1931 · Ralph Thomas Walker
Daily News BuildingRaymond Hood, John Mead Howells
American Radiator Building1924 · Raymond Hood, J. André Fouilhoux
One Manhattan Square2019
1221 Avenue of the Americas1972 · Wallace Harrison
3 Hudson Boulevard2019 · FXCollaborative
Helmsley Building1929 · Warren and Wetmore
250 East 57th Street2016
712 Fifth Avenue1991 · SLCE Architects, Kohn Pedersen Fox
W. R. Grace Building1974 · Gordon Bunshaft
Barclay-Vesey Building1927 · Ralph Thomas Walker
10 East 40th Street1929
Lever HouseGordon Bunshaft
Tower 491985
138 East 50th Street2019 · Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects
Home Life Building1894
330 West 42nd Street1931 · Raymond Hood
610 Lexington Avenue2017 · Foster and Partners
Edgar Towers Skyvoid
19 Dutch2018
MiMA2011 · Arquitectonica
1211 Avenue of the Americas1973 · Wallace Harrison
225 Liberty Street1987 · César Pelli
Skyline Tower (New York City)
The Sherry-Netherland1927 · Schultze & Weaver
Sky2016 · David Rockwell
1501 Broadway1927 · Rapp and Rapp, George Leslie Rapp
Lipstick Building1986 · Philip Johnson
90 West Street1907 · Cass Gilbert
Liberty TowerHenry Ives Cobb
17 State Street1988 · Emery Roth
Via 57 West2016 · BIG
United Nations Secretariat Building1951 · Le Corbusier, Oscar Niemeyer, Wallace Harrison
The Langham2010 · Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects
1345 Avenue of the Americas1969 · Emery Roth
Empire Building1898 · Kimball & Thompson
American Surety Building1896 · Bruce Price
The El DoradoEmery Roth
120 Wall Street1931 · Ely Jacques Kahn
1 New York Plaza1969 · Ely Jacques Kahn
200 Liberty Street1986 · César Pelli
250 Vesey Street1986 · César Pelli
The OrionCetra/Ruddy
Turkish House2021 · Perkins Eastman
DuMont Building1931 · J.E.R. Carpenter
375 Pearl Street1976
Central Park Place1988 · Davis Brody Bond
New York Hilton MidtownWilliam B. Tabler
Metropolitan Life North Building1950 · Harvey Wiley Corbett, D. Everett Waid
388 Greenwich Street1988 · Kohn Pedersen Fox
The Ansonia1904
ARO (New York City)2018
15 William2008 · Tsao & McKown Architects
101 Park Avenue1982
425 Fifth Avenue2003 · Michael Graves
590 Madison Avenue1983
Credit Lyonnais Building1964 · Shreve, Lamb & Harmon
One Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza1972
St. Paul BuildingGeorge B. Post
Rose Hill2018
Socony-Mobil Building1956 · Harrison & Abramovitz
Bush Tower1918 · Harvey Wiley Corbett
75 Wall Street1987
Newport Tower1990
750 Seventh Avenue1989 · Roche-Dinkeloo
888 7th Avenue1969 · Emery Roth & Sons
1270 Avenue of the Americas1932 · Wallace Harrison
11661974
919 Third Avenue1971
Conrad New York Midtown1990 · Frank Williams, Cosentini Associates, David Collins
The Epic2007
Downtown Athletic Club1930 · Starrett & van Vleck
Nelson Tower1931 · H. Craig Severance
New York Marriott Marquis1985 · John C. Portman Jr.
Trump Palace Condominiums1991

Bridges · 18

Brooklyn BridgeJohn Augustus Roebling
Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge1964
George Washington Bridge1962 · Othmar Hermann Ammann, Cass Gilbert
Manhattan Bridge1910 · Carrère and Hastings
Queensboro BridgeHenry Hornbostel
Williamsburg BridgeLeffert L. Buck
Hell Gate Bridge1916
Bayonne Bridge1931 · Cass Gilbert
Robert F. Kennedy Bridge1936
Bronx–Whitestone Bridge1939 · Othmar Hermann Ammann
High Bridge2015
Throgs Neck Bridge1961
Roosevelt Island Bridge1955
Alexander Hamilton Bridge1963
Broadway Bridge1962
Washington BridgeEdward H. Kendall
Henry Hudson Bridge1938
Madison Avenue Bridge

Museums · 34

Metropolitan Museum of Art1870 · Richard Morris Hunt, Calvert Vaux, Jacob Wrey Mould
Museum of Modern Art1929 · Yoshio Taniguchi, Edward Durell Stone
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum1937 · Frank Lloyd Wright
American Museum of Natural History1869 · Calvert Vaux, Rafael Guastavino, Jacob Wrey Mould
Brooklyn Museum1897 · McKim, Mead & White
National September 11 Memorial & Museum2011 · Michael Arad, Handel Architects, Davis Brody Bond
Whitney Museum of American Art1931 · Renzo Piano
USS Intrepid
The Frick Collection1935 · Carrère and Hastings
The Cloisters1938
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum1896
National Academy of Design1826
New Museum1977 · Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa
Jewish Museum1904 · Charles Pierrepont Henry Gilbert
Museum of the Moving Image1988
Neue Galerie2001
American Folk Art Museum1961
International Center of Photography1974
Museum of the City of New York1923
Queens Museum1972
Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum1982
New York Hall of Science1964
New York Transit Museum1976
Museum of Sex2002
New York City Police Museum1999 · Hunt & Hunt
New York Historical1804
The Newark Museum of Art1909
Museum of Arts and Design1956
Rubin Museum of Art2004
Skyscraper Museum1997
Tenement Museum1988
Bronx Museum of the Arts1971
Brooklyn Children's Museum1899
Lesbian Herstory Archives1974

Churches · 11

St. Patrick's Cathedral1858 · James Renwick Jr.
Trinity Church1698 · Richard Upjohn
Riverside Church1927 · Allen & Collens
Cathedral of St. John the Divine1899
St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox ChurchSantiago Calatrava
St. Paul's Chapel1766
Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart1954
St. Patrick's Old Cathedral1809 · Joseph-François Mangin
Saint Thomas Church1913 · Ralph Adams Cram
Judson Memorial Church
Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord1916 · Louis Allmendinger

Libraries · 8

New York Public Library1895
The Morgan Library & Museum1924 · Charles Follen McKim
Hispanic Society of America1904
Dag Hammarskjöld Library1946 · Harrison & Abramovitz
Brooklyn Public Library1896
Queens Public Library1896
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture1925 · Bond Ryder & Associates
Anthology Film Archives1970

Arenas · 6

Madison Square GardenCharles Luckman, Ellerbe Becket, Charles Luckman Associates
Barclays Center2012 · AECOM
Prudential Center2007 · Populous, Morris Adjmi Architects
Meadowlands Arena1981 · Grad Associates
Rucker Park
69th Regiment ArmoryRichard Howland Hunt