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The block is the former site of the East Side Airline Terminal, a passenger terminal for buses to LaGuardia and JFK airports via the adjacent tunnel. The terminal closed in 1984 and was auctioned off by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority the following year. Initially expected to sell for $50 million, a bidding war drove up the price of ...
In 2016, CitiGroup committed to staying in the building and announced a renovation. The exterior makeover, led by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, included the addition of a glass curtain wall to the lower floors of the tower and all of 390 Greenwich Street on the west side of the complex. Gensler provided interior renovations, including a new lobby ...
Completed in 1982, the tower's guy-wires were not protected against corrosion and failed due to rust and storm winds causing the tower to collapse in 1989. Small-scale experimental model of a solar draft tower, newer proposals if built could become the tallest structure on earth. Wooden structure: Mühlacker Wood Radio Tower Germany: Mühlacker ...
2. Central Park Tower, New York. Height: 1,550 feet Also known as Nordstrom Tower, this is the tallest residential building in the world and the tallest building outside of Asia by roof height alone.
Stretching up 62 stories, a planned office tower at 350 Park Avenue will provide space for more than 6,000 jobs, plus 1.8 million square feet of commercial office space, according to a press release.
Meanwhile, though an eviction date has not yet been set for the building's meatpacking tenants, they're getting ready to say goodbye. One of them is 68-year-old John Jobbagy, whose connection to ...
The history of skyscrapers in New York City began with the construction of the Equitable Life, Western Union, and Tribune buildings in the early 1870s. These relatively short early skyscrapers, sometimes referred to as "preskyscrapers" or "protoskyscrapers", included features such as a steel frame and elevators—then-new innovations that were used in the city's later skyscrapers.
The 73-story U.S. Bank Tower, which rises 1,018 feet (310 m) in Downtown Los Angeles and was completed in 1989, [1] is now the second-tallest building in Los Angeles. Six of the ten tallest buildings in California are located in Los Angeles. [ 2 ]