RCA Building
30 Rockefeller Plaza / 1250 Avenue of the Americas, 1933

Architect: The Associated Architects:
Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray,
Raymond Hood, Godley & Fouilhoux,
Reinhard & Hofmesiter
Developer: Rockefeller Center Development Corporation
Structural Engineer: Edwards & Hjorth H.G. Balcom & Associates
Current Owner: RCPI Trust
Height: 381 m / 850 ft.
Floors: 69 (70)

The RCA Building (30 Rockefeller Center, now the GE Building) is, at 850 feet, the tallest building in Rockefeller Center and its focal point. From this direction, it is a narrow structure; Raymond Hood gave the eastern front a prow-like form through multiple setbacks. Clad in Indiana limestone (except the two-story granite base), the articulation of the building is reduced to aluminum and glass windows and these setbacks; this "stripped" Modernism is still fresh today, especially when viewed against the glass boxes which would join it across Sixth Avenue in the 1960s.