Iron building

An iron building or iron house are colloquially referred to as buildings whose floor plan is reminiscent of the shape of an iron . It is roughly triangular , but usually trapezoidal , with the front parallel side being very short, while the non-parallel sides are usually longer than both parallel sides.

This ground plan geometry usually arises when two streets converge at an acute angle and the corner property is built on in the inner corner of the streets.

Flatiron Building in New York City

Examples are:

Germany

• the Chilehaus (Hamburg), 1924
• the iron house (Hattingen) , 1611
• the Sasse-Haus at the Kasinokreisel in Wuppertal
• the iron house "am Timpen" in Ennepetal on Kölner Strasse, 1902
• the Kollhoff Tower on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, 1999
• the flat bolt on Hasselbachplatz in Magdeburg
• the Flatiron Building (Düsseldorf), 2014
• the Trias office building in Leipzig, 2014

Canada

• the Gooderham Building in Toronto, 1892
• the Hotel Europe in Vancouver , 1909

Spain

• the building of the Banco de Valencia in Valencia, 1942

United States

• the Flatiron Flats (Eureka Springs, Arkansas) 1880
• the Flatiron Building (Atlanta, Georgia), 1897
• the Flatiron Building (New York, New York), 1902
• the Flatiron Building (Lacombe, Alberta), 1903
• the Beaver Building (New York, New York), 1904
• the Flatiron Building (San Francisco, California), 1907
• the Flatiron Building (Fort Worth, Texas), 1907
• the Flatiron Building (Chicago, Illinois)
• the Flatiron Building (Chattanooga, Tennessee)
• the Flatiron Building (Columbus, Ohio), 1914
• the Flatiron Building (Portland, Oregon), 1916
• the Flatiron Building (Asheville, North Carolina), 1926
• the Flatiron Building (Grand Forks, North Dakota)
• the Flatiron Hotel (Omaha, Nebraska), 1912

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  Building of the Banco de Valencia , Valencia

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  Chilehaus , Hamburg

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  Kollhoff Tower , Berlin

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  Gooderham Building , Toronto

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  Iron House , Hattingen

Web links

Commons : Iron Building  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New calendar with Wuppertal motifs in: Westdeutsche Zeitung of August 22, 2010. Accessed on June 29, 2011.
2. ↑ List of architectural monuments of the city of Ennepetal in: List of architectural monuments of the city of Ennepetal. Retrieved May 16, 2020.