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40 Wall Street, like many other early-20th-century skyscrapers in New York City, is designed as a freestanding tower, rising separately from all adjacent buildings. 40 Wall Street is one of several skyscrapers in the city that have pyramidal roofs, along with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, 14 Wall Street, Woolworth Building ...
[14] [16] [17] The northern structure, at 11 Wall Street on the northern end of the block, has a frontage directly on Wall Street; it was designed by Trowbridge & Livingston and completed in 1922. [18] [19] Due to the site's sloping topography, the first floor is at ground level at the corner of Wall and New Streets, but is one level above ...
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The last great building on Wall Street, 60 Wall, was completed in 1987 as the headquarters for JP Morgan & Co., a more recent precursor to JPMorgan Chase (formed in 2000 by the merger of JP Morgan ...
The roof is still made of the same material, but the copper has oxidized over time (kind of like the Statue of Liberty), so it now looks green. Epicgenius 16:00, 10 July 2023 (UTC) How about this: The building's pyramidal roof was originally is made of lead-coated copper, which has oxidized and turned green over time.
The added height of the spire allowed the Chrysler Building to surpass 40 Wall Street as the tallest building in the world and the Eiffel Tower as the tallest structure. [179] The Chrysler Building was thus the first man-made structure to be taller than 1,000 feet (300 m) [186] and, by extension, the world's first supertall skyscraper. [4]
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On the heels of his 95th birthday, the architect of L.A. landmarks looks back on his career and the ever-enduring myth that his Capitol Records building is intended to resemble a stack of records ...