The triangular building at the split of two avenues, a plaza of chairs at its point, a wedge shaped gallery inside the prow.
The Flatiron Building was completed in 1902 on the wedge where Broadway crosses Fifth Avenue at 23rd Street. Daniel Burnham's Chicago firm designed it, and it was first called the Fuller Building. It rises 22 stories on a steel frame and is only about six feet wide at the point. The plaza in front of it was turned over to pedestrians in 2008.
Source · Encyclopaedia Britannica ↗
The triangular plan with its rounded point, limestone and terracotta tiers of bay windows, the pedestrian plaza with green chairs, the cast iron street clock, the park across the way. Mood: noon on the wedge. Everything is procedural geometry with painted surfaces; nothing is a scan or a photograph. The room is an interpretation, and it hangs the New Yorkers the census recorded at this place first.