The Flatiron Building
PERHAPS THE MOST remarkable thing about New York’s Flatiron building is that anyone would actually contemplate erecting a 22-storey building on such an awkward triangular site.
Only 6ft wide at its leading edge and 87 feet at the rear, the 285-foot-tall building cleaves its way between two of the Big Apple’s main thoroughfares – Fifth Avenue and Broadway – like the prow of an ocean
