Marine Midland Building
| Marine Midland Building | |
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| Basic data | |
| Place: |
New York City , United States
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| Construction time : | 1965-1967 |
| Status : | Built |
| Architectural style : | Modern |
| Architect : | Skidmore, Owings and Merrill |
| Use / legal | |
| Usage : | offices |
| Technical specifications | |
| Height : | 209.7 m |
| Height to the roof: | 209.7 m |
| Rank (height) : | 67th place (New York City) |
| Floors : | 52 |
| Elevators : | 24 |
| Usable area : | 111,805 m² |
| Building material : | Structure: steel ; Facade: glass , aluminum |
The HSBC Bank Building , also known as the Marine Midland Building , is a high-rise in Manhattan on Broadway , completed in 1967 and designed by Gordon Bunshaft . Bunshaft had worked at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) since 1946 and was best known for his work at Lever House . The building has 52 floors and is the 67-tallest building in New York with a height of 209.7 meters (as of 2019). Before the building is the sculpture Cube by Isamu Noguchi . A trapezoidal building with a curtain wall facade made of black-tinted window panes and dark steel parts was erected on the property near the former World Trade Center . The Equitable Building is 50 meters lower on the neighboring property to the southwest .
The building was built by a consortium led by the Marine Midland Bank. The bank moved into the lower 20 floors of the building. After HSBC took over the majority of shares in Marine Midland in 1980, the name of the bank and the building were adjusted to that of the new owner. After HSBC Bank moved to another HSBC building in Manhattan, in 2003 around a third of the 111,000 m² of office space was leased to the American private bank Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
In a bomb attack on August 20, 1969, 20 people were injured. On the 8th floor of the building, a bomb was placed in a hallway near the elevators and detonated around 10:30 p.m. The perpetrator was sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment for the attack and seven other bombings in New York in 1969, but died in 1971 in a prison riot at the Attica Correctional Facility .
In June 2013 the building was listed by the Landmarks Preservation Commission .
Web links
- further information at the CTBUH
Individual evidence
- ↑ Emporis : Profile of the Marine Midland Building (English)
- ^ Robert E. Tomasson: Melville, Attica Radical, Dead; Recently Wrote of Jail Terror , The New York Times . September 15, 1971. Retrieved March 10, 2009.
- ↑ Monument Protection Report 140 Broadway ( Memento of the original from September 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 5.7 MB)
Coordinates: 40 ° 42 ′ 31.2 " N , 74 ° 0 ′ 36" W.