40 Wall Street

40 Wall Street

40 Wall Street New York City NY United States

Status: built Construction Dates   Began 1929   Finished 1930 Floor Count 71 Floor Area 83,891 m²

Building Uses  - office Structural Types  - highrise Architectural Style  - art deco Materials  - masonry  - steel

	Heights		Value		Source / Comments
	Spire		282.5 m
	Floor 69		254.8 m

Description - Architect: H. Craig Severance - Originally the headquarters of the Bank of Manhattan. The Bank of Manhattan later became the Chase Manhattan Bank, which is now part of JP Morgan Chase. It no longer has offices at 40 Wall. - This building was the world's tallest for a brief time in 1930, when it beat the Chrysler Building to completion in a year-long race. Then the Chrysler's builders had an extra-tall spire jacked up above the Bank of Manhattan's flagpole, claiming victory. - On May 20th 1946, a U.S. Coast Guard plane (a small twin engined plane) hit the building at the 58th floor, killing 4. The building was relatively undamaged. - Donald Trump bought the building in 1995. He intended to convert part of it to condos, but the office market became strong again and the space was simply leased out as offices.

New York Times Tower

New York Times Tower

620 8th Avenue New York City NY United States

Status: built Construction Dates   Began 2004   Finished 2007 Floor Count 52 Floor Area 143,639 m² Elevator Count 32

Building Uses  - office  - garden  - retail Structural Types  - highrise  - pole Architectural Style  - modern Materials  - glass  - steel  - aluminium  - concrete

	Heights		Value		Source / Comments
	Spire		318.8 m
	Glass fins		244.1 m
	Roof		227.4 m
	Top floor		219.9 m		CTBUH

Description Building Architect: Renzo Piano Building Workshop. Project Architect: FXFowle Architects. - The building is anchored by the New York Times newspaper (floors 1 through 28) with other tenants on the remaining floors. The design life is expected to be 100 years. - Double layered facade: A system of small ceramic tubes covering transparent glass which permit the tubes to show the color of the sky. The Times headline above the 8th Ave. entry is printed in 10,166 pt. Fratur font. - Plantings and gardens are also be placed at the roof top and within an internal open air atrium inside the podium. - While the building does make use of current energy saving technology, it is not expected to become LEED certified. - Upper section of spire is designed to sway slightly in the wind. - Fourth tallest building in New York as of 2010, behind the Empire State Building, Bank of America Tower and Chrysler Building.