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DESIGNED AS the headquarters for the RCA Victor Company—but taken over only a year later by General Electric and known ever since as the GE Building—this slender, orange-brick tower is one of the most extravagantly Expressionist buildings in New York. Gothic and German Expressionist motifs are brilliantly overlaid in this 40-story, 570-foot-tall tower. The result is nothing less than a secular cathedral devoted to the gods of radio.
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(2005). General Electric Building (originally RCA Victor Building). In: Manhattan Skyscrapers. Princeton Archit.Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-56898-652-1_38
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