October 09, 2006
Rockefeller Center roof garden & more OpenHouse
For four hours Sunday afternoon, Rockefeller Center allowed the public into the private roof garden atop its British Empire Building overlooking Fifth Avenue as part of the fourth annual Open House New York.
 Long closed to the public, just about the only other way to catch a glimpse of the "Gardens of the Nations," is to venture to the Top of the Rock observation deck and peer down through the ornamentation near the top of 30 Rock. (Pictures here.)
The British Empire Building's gardens allowed views of the gardens atop the International and French buildings, skaters on the ice rink at Rockefeller Center, Anish Kapoor's "Sky Mirror" below, a parade up Fifth Avenue, and what felt like an eye-to-eye meeting with St. Patrick's Cathedral.
More roof garden pictures after the jump, along with links to other OHNY coverage and pictures from around the web.
More OHNY:
Floyd Bennett Field (Brooklyn Record)
The Ling Loft (Kathryn Nu)
The Octagon (Curbed)
7 WTC (What I See)
Flickr's openhousenewyork photo pool (Flickr)
Curbed's OHNY Flickr photo pool (Flickr/Curbed)
OHNY photo highlights (Brownstoner)
Eco-friendly 453 Pacific St. (Brownstoner)
Kushner Residence (Kathryn Nu)
October 9, 2006 04:25 PM in Architecture, Midtown, Sightsology
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