40 Wall Street

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40 Wall Street
40 Wall Street
Basic data
Place: New York City , United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
Construction time : 1929-1930
Status : Built
Architectural style : Art deco
Architect : H. Craig Severance
Use / legal
Usage : offices
Owner : Hinneberg, Hamburg
Main tenant: American Express
Client : Bank of Manhattan Company
Technical specifications
Height : 283 m
Height to the top: 283 m
Height to the roof: 254.8 m
Rank (height) : 26th place (USA)
12th place (New York)
Floors : 71
Elevators : 36
Usable area : 103,278 m²
Building material : Structure: steel ;
Facade: glass , granite

40 Wall Street (formerly Bank of Manhattan Company Building , also called The Trump Building since 1996 ) is the name of a 283-meter-high skyscraper in New York City , Lower Manhattan . The Art Deco style tower was designed by the architect H. Craig Severance. The skyscraper, built in 1930, was named after its project developer Donald Trump in 1991 after it was rented and converted by the Trump Organization . Since the renovation, the Trump Organization has owned, but not owned, the building. "Formally, it is not Trump, but the Hinneberg family that owns the property and the building." In 1982, the Hamburg shipowners Walter and Christian Hinneberg, together with their late father, Walter J. Hinneberg, and two German business partners bought the property and the high-rise from the previous owner, the insurer Metropolitan Life Insurance, and in 1995 Donald Trump took over the high-rise. The skyscraper in the Financial District has 70 floors and is currently used by American Express . Currently (as of 2018) it is the thirteenth tallest building in New York .

History and architecture

Historical recording
The entrance area
View from below

The building, then known as the Bank of Manhattan Company Building , was completed in less than a year in 1930. At 283 meters, it was the tallest building in the world for a short time . After a few weeks, the Chrysler Building had to be defeated in the race for the title . Its architect William Van Alen had deliberately given the planned height of the Chrysler Building incorrectly at 282 meters. Hidden inside the top of the building, he had a 56-meter-high and 27-ton steel spike built and pushed up and installed in one piece while the public was amazed. All of a sudden, not only the Bank of Manhattan Company Building but also the Eiffel Tower in Paris was outbid. However, the Chrysler Building could only hold the record for a short time. In 1931 the Empire State Building took over the title of the tallest building in the world at 381 meters, relegating the Bank of Manhattan Company Building to third place. In 1932, it was surpassed again by the 290 meter high 70 Pine Street and took fourth place World ranking pushed. As a result, it also lost its status as the tallest building in Lower Manhattan .

1929 was the great stock market crash in the USA, which heralded the end of the ornate skyscrapers and marked the transition to greater sobriety in design.

In terms of notoriety and aesthetics, this structure cannot compete with the Chrysler Building. Apart from its height, it basically offers nothing new. The middle section is relatively simple and the top floors are not particularly upgraded. The high copper roof helmet in neo -Gothic style , which is easily recognizable from a distance, is striking , making it resemble the somewhat older Woolworth Building . Apart from the top of the building, what is now called the Trump Building shows a certain formal similarity to the Empire State Building, which was built almost at the same time. Both start on the ground floor with mighty blocks, which then gradually taper until the middle section is reached, which runs through unbroken to the top. Oddly enough, both buildings were hit by a plane crash in the 1940s.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : 40 Wall Street  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Müßgens: Trump's high-rise in German hands. In: FAZ.net . January 20, 2017. Retrieved March 11, 2017 .
  2. ^ The Trump Building . Buildingdb.ctbuh.org. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
  3. ↑ https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/unternehmen/hinneberg-brueder-sind-geschaeftpartner-von-trump-aus-hamburg-14670359-p2.html?printPagedArticle=true#pageIndex_1
  4. ^ Judith Dupré: Skyscrapers - The history of the most famous and most important skyscrapers in the world , Könemann, Königswinter 2005, ISBN 3-8331-1099-6 , p. 36.
before Tallest skyscraper in the world after that
Woolworth Building 283 m
1930 (April-May)		 Chrysler Building


Coordinates: 40 ° 42 ′ 25 ″  N , 74 ° 0 ′ 35 ″  W.