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General Information

Completion: 1988
Status: in use

Project Type

Function / usage: Office building
Material: Steel structure

Location

Location: , , ,
Address: 17 State Street
Coordinates: 40° 42' 10.34" N    74° 0' 50.37" W
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Technical Information

Dimensions

height 165 m
number of floors (above ground) 41

Materials

building structure steel

Excerpt from Wikipedia

17 State Street is a 42-story office building located in the Financial District of Manhattan, overlooking State Street and Battery Park. It was designed by Roy Gee for Emery Roth and Sons for developers William Kaufman Organization, and it is most noted for ist distinct curved glass facade. The building has been owned by RFR Holding since 1999 when it was acquired from Savannah Teachers Properties Inc. For $120 million.

17 State Street was affected by Hurricane Sandy in October 2012, primarily by water damage to electrical equipment in the building's basement. For that reason, the building was closed for repairs for approximately two weeks and was one of the earliest office buildings in the Financial District to be reoccupied after the storm.

Architecture

In 1988, architecture critic Paul Goldberg, said "this is not a great building, but it is one of the few truly happy intersections of the realities of New York commercial development and serious architectural aspirations".

Later, in 2008, Architecture critic Carter B. Horsley has referred to it as “the city’s most beautiful curved building”, competing with Jean Nouvel’s faceted 100 Eleventh Avenue, Philip Johnson’s Lipstick Building, and pre-war masterpieces such as 1 Wall Street Court (formerly the Cocoa Exchange) and the nearby Delmonico Building.

Text imported from Wikipedia article "17 State Street" and modified on 23 July 2019 under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

 

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  • About this
    data sheet
  • Structure-ID
    20005486
  • Published on:
    25/09/2002
  • Last updated on:
    29/07/2014
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