Architecture: Rockefeller Center, 1940

Rockefeller Center:

Amid a blaze of publicity, the "Radio City" project was officially unveiled to the press on March 5, 1931, a "gleaming white model that slowly revolved against its backdrop of velvet drapes. The reviews were not kind. Weakly conceived," "reckless" and "chaos... a cross section of metropolitan disorder" were some of the comments.

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