Empire State Plaza, New York State’s vast gleaming white government office complex, was the vision of the late Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller. Some 1,200 buildings were razed to make way for the modernist office towers and brutalist Cultural Education Center.
- Name: Governor Nelson A Rockefeller Empire State Plaza
- Location: 100 South Mall Arterial
- Year Completed: 1976
- Architect: Wallace Harrison
- Style: Brutalist, International, Modernist
- Wikipedia: Empire State Plaza
- Google Map
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Empire State Plaza
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Empire State Plaza at night
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Empire State Plaza at night
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Empire State Plaza, Albany, at blue hour.
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Empire State Plaza – WWII Memorial
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Empire State Plaza – New York State Museum, Library and Archives
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Empire State Plaza – New York State Museum, Library and Archives
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Empire State Plaza – Erastus Corning II Tower
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Empire State Plaza – New York State Museum, Library and Archives
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Empire State Plaza – New York State Museum, Library and Archives
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Empire State Plaza – Erastus Corning II Tower
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Empire State Plaza – New York State Museum, Library and Archives
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Empire State Plaza – The Egg
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Empire State Plaza – The Egg
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Empire State Plaza – Justice Building (Robert Abrams Building for Law and Justice)
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Empire State Plaza
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Empire State Plaza at night
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Empire State Plaza – Legislative Office Building
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Empire State Plaza
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Empire State Plaza – New York State Seal
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Empire State Plaza – Legislative Office Building in foreground
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Empire State Plaza – New York State Museum, Library and Archives
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Empire State Plaza – Erastus Corning II Tower
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Empire State Plaza – Erastus Corning II Tower
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Empire State Plaza – New York State Museum, Library and Archives
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Empire State Plaza – scaffolding alongside The Egg
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Empire State Plaza – scaffolding alongside The Egg
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Empire State Plaza – scaffolding alongside The Egg
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Empire State Plaza – The Egg
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Empire State Plaza – scaffolding alongside The Egg
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Empire State Plaza – scaffolding alongside The Egg
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Empire State Plaza – The Egg
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Empire State Plaza – Fallen Firefighters Memorial
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Empire State Plaza – Fallen Firefighters Memorial
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Empire State Plaza – Fallen Firefighters Memorial
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Empire State Plaza – Fallen Firefighters Memorial
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Empire State Plaza – New York State Museum, Library and Archives
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Empire State Plaza at night.
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Empire State Plaza – New York State Museum, Library and Archives
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Empire State Plaza at night
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