The Flatiron building was designed by Daniel Burnham in the Beaux-Arts style and was completed in 1902.HG Wells sums up the feeling when you first see the building- "I found myself agape, admiring a skycrapper, the prow of the Flatiron Building, to be particular, ploughing up through the traffic of Broadway and Fifth Avenue in the late-afternoon light"
I've always loved this building for its stark contrast in shape against the other skyscrappers.
The building, which took its name from the shape forced on it by the traingular lot it was bulit on- the Flatiron block, so called because it was shaped like a clothes iron. Personally I think it as a wedge, a wedge of cheese or a door wedge.
It would be interesting to hear other peoples opinions on what it looks like?
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