Trump Tower (New York)
Swanke Hayden Connell Architects
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Date
1983Description
General context view looking up the Trump Tower from Fifth Avenue; Trump Tower is a 58-story skyscraper in New York City located at 721 Fifth Avenue (Manhattan), at the corner of 56th Street. The mixed-use tower was developed by Donald Trump and the Equitable Life Assurance Company. Designed by Der Scutt of Swanke, Hayden Connell, it was completed in 1983. The tower is a 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. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 2/10/2008)
Type of Work
mixed-use development; skyscraperSubject
architectural exteriors, business, commerce and trade, contemporary (1960 to present), Modernist
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