The Rockefeller Centre W 48th - 51st Streets, between 5th and
6th Avenues, New York City The Rockefeller Centre, constructed
between 1932 and 1940, was conceived by John D Rockefeller Jr as
the first large-scale, privately-funded, mixed-use urban renewal
project in the United States. The centrepiece of the multi-
building complex is the Raymond Hood -designed 70-storey RCA
Building which, in common with many of the buildings and public
spaces throughout the Centre, is liberally adorned with the work
of some of the leading US sculptors of the Deco era. You can see
more pictures and find out more (but not much more) by visiting
the Rockefeller Centre pages on the rather patronising official
New York City tourism website. The images on this page were
taken by Art Deco World in April 2000.