20 Exchange Place
| 20 Exchange Place | |
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| Basic data | |
| Place: |
New York City , United States
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| Construction time : | 1930-1931 |
| Status : | Built |
| Architectural style : | Art deco |
| Architect : | Cross and Cross |
| Use / legal | |
| Usage : | office building |
| Owner : | West World Company Incorporated |
| Technical specifications | |
| Height : | 226 m |
| Height to the roof: | 226 m |
| Rank (height) : | 38th place (New York) |
| Floors : | 57 |
| Usable area : | 67,000 m² |
| Building material : | Structure: steel ; Facade: glass , limestone |
20 Exchange Place is a 57-story skyscraper in New York that was completed in 1931. The building is located in Lower Manhattan, not far from the New York Stock Exchange . The name of the high-rise office building is derived from its address.
description
Construction work on the building began in 1930 and was completed after just one year. The 20 Exchange Place has 57 floors and is 226 meters high, making it the 40th tallest building in New York City (as of 2016). After its completion, the building was briefly the fifth-tallest skyscraper in New York. The skyscraper, built in the Art Deco architectural style , typical of the 1930s, was originally intended to be 257 meters high and replace the 241-meter-high Woolworth Building from 1913 as the tallest building in the world. However, after there were much taller buildings in New York in 1931, such as the Empire State Building with 381 meters and the 319 meters high Chrysler Building , and the world record seemed no longer achievable, the height was reduced to 226 meters.
The building emerges from the southern Manhattan skyline in a very slim form. Only the lower floors take up more floor space. From a height of around 80 meters, the building rises very slimly to the roof at a height of 226 meters.
The building had several names: City Bank Farmers Trust Building (1931–1955), First National City Bank of New York (1955–1956) and Citibank Building (1956–1979). West World Company Incorporated now owns the building. In 1996 the Landmarks Preservation Commission of the City of New York listed the high-rise as a listed building.
See also
literature
- Dirk Stichweh: New York Skyscrapers . Prestel Verlag, Munich et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-7913-4054-8 .
Web links
Coordinates: 40 ° 42 ′ 20 ″ N , 74 ° 0 ′ 35 ″ W.