Rockefeller Center
Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings covering 22 acres. It is the largest privately held complex of its kind in the world, and an international symbol of commerce and capitalism. Rockefeller Center is a combination of two building complexes: the older Art Deco office buildings from the 1930s, and a set of four International-style towers built along the Avenue of the Americas during the 1960s and 1970s. The entire Rockefeller Center complex was purchased by Mitsubishi Estate, a real estate company of the Mitsubishi Group, in 1989. In 2000, Jerry Speyer (a close friend of David Rockefeller), of Tishman Speyer Properties, L.P., together with the Lester Crown family of Chicago, bought out for $1.85 billion the previous owners: Goldman Sachs (which owned half the complex), the Giovanni Agnelli family, Stavros Niarchos and David Rockefeller.
This 56-story tower, whose slab runs parallel to Lexington Avenue, is a little grotesque, like an attractive lady with too much make-up. There was a short period of time at which it was the tallest building in the world. When originally completed, the 50th floor had a silver-and-black high-brow movie theater. This floor and the 51st are now offices joined by a stairwell instead. Despite its relatively small size in terms of total square footage, this tall building boasts some of the most exuberant and lavish decoration in the city aound its base. Indeed, its ornate bronze lobby grills and lower facade decoration are the finest expression of Art Deco in the city, but their impact is lessened by the relatively humdrum nature of the tower's shaft and the rather understated treatment of the handsome through-block lobby.
Trump Tower is a 58-story, reinforced concrete, shear-wall/core structure and was the tallest structure of this type in New York City when completed. A concrete hat-truss at the top of the building ties exterior columns with the concrete core. This increases the effective dimensions of the core to that of the building in order to resist the overturning of lateral forces (wind, minor earthquakes, and impacts perpendicular to the building’s height). The building’s public spaces are clad in Breccia Pernice, a pink white-veined marble and brass and mirrors are used throughout. This includes the office lobby, off Fifth Avenue, and the five-level atrium which has a waterfall, shops, cafés, and a pedestrian bridge that crosses over the waterfall’s pool. The atrium is crowned with a skylight.
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