By Paul Piazza Architect
Location: 40 Tenth Avenue, New York NY (adjacent to The Highline) Completed: 2019 Architect: Studio Gang Architects Developer: Aurora Capital Associates and William Gottlieb Real Estate Structural Engineer: Arup Group Main Contractor: Cauldwell Wingate Company Sustainability: LEED Gold Certified 40 Tenth Avenue is Studio Gang’s first commission in New York. The building features a chiseled, …
200 West Street is the global headquarters of the Goldman Sachs investment banking firm. The building is a 749-foot-tall (228 m), 44-story building located on West Street, between Vesey and Murray Streets in Lower Manhattan. It is adjacent to the World Financial Center and the Conrad Hotel, the Verizon Building to the east across West Street, and …
476-foot, 42-story modern/futurist residential building completed in 2014, located at 400 Park Avenue South in New York City. Designed by Christian Portzamparc [Atelier Christian de Portzamparc] and Gary Edward Handel [Handel Architects], it was developed by Toll Brothers, who are better known for luxury suburban houses. The form of the building is an asymmetric crystalline …
731 Lexington Avenue is a 1,345,489 sq ft (125,000.0 m2) glass skyscraper on the East Side of Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It houses the headquarters of Bloomberg L.P. and as a result, is sometimes referred to informally as Bloomberg Tower. The building also houses retail outlets, restaurants and 105 luxury condominiums. The residences are known as One Beacon Court and are served by a separate entrance. The tower …
The Irish Hunger Memorial, designed collaboratively by artist Brian Tolle, landscape architect Gail Wittwer-Laird, and architecture firm 1100 Architect, is located on a 0.5-acre (0.20 ha) site at the corner of Vesey Street and North End Avenue in the Battery Park City neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, and is dedicated to raising awareness …
The World Trade Center Transportation Hub is the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s name for the new PATH station and the associated transit and retail complex which opened on March 3, 2016. The station’s renaming took place when the station reopened. Designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, the Transportation Hub is composed …
The Lipstick Building (also known as 53rd at Third) is a 453 foot (138 meters) tall skyscraper located at 885 Third Avenue, between East 53rd Street and 54th Street, across from the Citigroup Center in Manhattan, New York City, United States. It was completed in 1986 and has 34 floors. The building was designed by John …
The Rose Center for Earth and Space is a part of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. The Center’s complete name is The Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and Space. The main entrance is located on the northern side of the museum on 81st Street near Central …
The Fulton Center is a transit center and retail complex centered at the intersection of Fulton Street and Broadway in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The complex is part of a $1.4 billion project by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), a public agency of the state ofNew York, to rehabilitate the Fulton Street New York …
One World Trade Center (also known as 1 World Trade Center, One WTC and 1 WTC; the current building was dubbed the “Freedom Tower” during initial base work) refers to the main building of the new World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City. It is the tallest skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere and …
The New York Times Building is a skyscraper on the west side of midtown Manhattan, New York City that was completed in 2007. Its chief tenant is The New York Times Company, publisher of The New York Times as well as the International New York Times, and other newspapers. The project was announced on December 13, …
The Citigroup Center (formerly Citicorp Center and now known as 601 Lexington Avenue) is an office tower in New York City, located at 53rd Street between Lexington Avenue and Third Avenue in midtown Manhattan. It was built in 1977 to house the headquarters of Citibank. It is 915 feet (279 m) tall, one of the …
The Sony Tower, formerly the AT&T Building, is a 647 feet (197 m) tall, 37-story high-rise skyscraper located at 550 Madison Avenue between 55th Street and 56th Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It was formerly the headquarters of Sony Corporation of America (hence the name) before it sold the building and moved in 2013. …
Headquarters of the Mutual of America Life Insurance Company, 320 Park Avenue was originally designed by Emery Roth & Sons in 1960. In 1995, a Swanke Hayden Connell-led redesign expanded the 35-story tower’s square footage to 730,000 SF. It’s also a LEED Silver certified building.
The IAC Building, InterActiveCorp‘s headquarters located at 550 West 18th Street on the northeast corner of Eleventh Avenue in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, is a Frank Gehry-designed building that was completed in 2007. Reminiscent of several other Gehry designs, the building appears to consist of two major levels: a large base of twisted tower-sections packed together like the cells of a beehive, with …
The Seagram Building is a skyscraper, located at 375 Park Avenue, between 52nd Street and 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The structure was designed by German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe while the lobby and other internal aspects were designed by Philip Johnson including The Four Seasons and Brasserie restaurants. Severud Associates were the structural engineering consultants. The building stands 515 feet (157 m) tall with 38 stories and was completed …
The Woolworth Building, at 233 Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, designed by architect Cass Gilbert and completed in 1913, is one of the oldest skyscrapers in the United States. The land for the building was purchased by F. W. Woolworth on March 11, 1910, from the Trenor Luther Park Estate for two million dollars. More than a century after the start of its …
Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine The Cathedral of St. John: The Great Divine, officially the Cathedral Church of Saint John: The Great Divine in the City and Diocese of New York, is the cathedral of the Episcopal Diocese of New York. It is located at 1047 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City (between West 110th Street, which is also known as “Cathedral Parkway”, …
The Main Concourse… Grand Central Terminal (GCT)—colloquially called Grand Central Station, or shortened to simply Grand Central—is a commuter rail terminal station at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States. Built by and named for the New York Central Railroad in the heyday of American long-distance passenger rail travel, it is the largest train station in the world by the number of platforms: 44, with 67 tracks along …
Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings covering 22 acres (89,000 m2) between 48th and 51st streets in New York City, United States. Built by the Rockefeller family, it is located in the center of Midtown Manhattan, spanning the area between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987.[2][3][4] Rockefeller Center was named after John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who leased the …
The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world. The museum’s collection offers an overview of …
The Stephen A. Schwarzman Building of the New York Public Library, more widely known as the Main Branch or simply as “the New York Public Library,” is the flagship building in the New York Public Library system and a prominent historic landmark in Midtown Manhattan. Following a competition among the city’s most famous architects, the relatively unknown firm of Carrère and Hastings was selected to …