Carnegie Hall Tower One57 Tower and Cityspire Center
by Micah Goff
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Carnegie Hall Tower One57 Tower and Cityspire Center
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Micah Goff
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Carnegie Hall Tower is a 60-story skyscraper located on 57th Street in New York City. Part of a cluster of three very tall buildings (along with CitySpire Center and Metropolitan Tower), the tower was built in an architectural style in harmony with its western neighbor Carnegie Hall, a New York landmark.
The tower is 231 meters (757 ft) tall and was completed in 1991 following the design by Cesar Pelli first conceived in 1987. This design won an Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects in 1994.
The Carnegie Hall Tower seems impossibly slim from the front (the main shaft is 50 feet (15 m) wide) however has wide sides facing its neighbors, the Russian Tea Room and Metropolitan Tower on the east and Carnegie Hall on the west. It was clad in brick and glazed brick of several colors, with precast concrete "lintels" above windows, and painted metal bands at intervals of six floors. The large cornice atop the shaft is an open trellis of wide-flange steel sections. The lobby and common rooms are covered in marble and granite with hardwood and brass accents.
The structural system for this extremely slender tower (2.8:1 aspect ratio above the 44th floor) is two joined tubes of cast-in-place concrete, designed by engineer Jacob Grossman of Robert Rosenwasser Associates.
In 2001, former President Bill Clinton had planned to locate his office on the 56th floor of Carnegie Hall Tower. After facing heavy criticism over the $738,000 annual cost to be paid for by taxpayers, Clinton chose office space on 125th Street in the Harlem neighborhood.[1]
One57, formerly known as Carnegie 57,[2] is a 75-story[3] (marketed as 90-story) skyscraper at 157 West 57th Street in the Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.[4][5][6] Upon completion in 2014, it stood at 1,005 feet (306 m) tall, making it the tallest residential building in the city for a few months until 432 Park Avenue was constructed. The building will have 92 condominium units on top of a new Park Hyatt Hotel with 210 rooms, which is set to become the flagship Hyatt property; previously, the Chicago Park Hyatt was the flagship.[7][8][9]
The contractor is Lend Lease Project Management & Construction, and the developer is Extell Development Company.[10] As of January 2015, it is home to the most expensive residence ever sold in New York City.[11]
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