• Partial side view of the air traffic control tower at LaGuardia Airport. The tower features a concrete art deco style with circular windows up and down the tower.
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    LaGuardia Airport, New York, United States
    LaGuardia's Art Deco Marine Air Terminal is one of the oldest terminals in the United States. Designed by William Delano under the New Deal Work Projects Administration, it opened in 1940. The 1964 tower was designed by Wallace K. Harrison, famous for his 1939 World's Fair sculptures, Rockefeller Center, Lincoln Center, and the United Nations headquarters. The New York Times referred to the whimsically designed tower as "a design for a giant ice cream cone." In 2010 a new tower superseded the old one. The upper section of the original 46-meter (150-foot) tower was removed because it obstructed the new tower's view.

    The photograph is a part of Art of the Airport Tower, an exhibition that explores contemporary and historical air traffic control towers in the U.S. and around the world. 

  • Partial side view of the air traffic control tower at LaGuardia Airport. The tower features a concrete art deco style with circular windows up and down the tower.

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Carolyn Russo

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WEB14839-2015

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