30 Rockefeller Plaza
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Art Deco skyscraper at the Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan, New York City
Key facts
- Former names
- RCA Building (1933–1988), GE Building (1988–2015)
- Alternative names
- 30 Rock, NBCUniversal Building
- Status
- Completed
- Type
- Offices and television studios ( NBC )
- Location
- 30 Rockefeller Plaza , New York , New York 10112
- Completed
- 1933 ; 93 years ago ( 1933 )
- Owner
- NBCUniversal (floors 2–16), Tishman Speyer (all other floors)
- Roof
- 850 ft (260 m)
- Floor area
- 2,099,985 ft (195,095.0 m )
- Architect
- Raymond Hood
- Developer
- John D. Rockefeller Jr.
- Structural engineer
- Edwards & Hjorth; H.G. Balcom & Associates
- Architectural styles
- Modern , Art Deco
- Designated
- December 23, 1987
- Designated entity
- Rockefeller Center
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- skyscraper
- Part of
- Rockefeller Center
- Named after
- RCA Corporation
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Manhattan
- Owned by
- Tishman Speyer
- Material used
- granite
- Developer
- John D. Rockefeller Jr.
- Image
- 30 Rockefeller Plaza viewed from 5th Avenue, August 29, 2024 (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 259
- Has use
- office
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- architect
- Raymond Hood
- floors above ground
- 70
- number of elevators
- 60
- inception
- 1933-00-00
- different from
- General Electric Building
- Commons category
- 30 Rockefeller Plaza
- postal code
- 10112
- street address
- 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10012
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Encyclopedic overview
30 Rockefeller Plaza (officially the Comcast Building; formerly RCA Building and GE Building) is a skyscraper that forms the centerpiece of Rockefeller Center in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, New York. Completed in 1933, the 66-story, 850-foot-tall (10,200 in; 260 m) building was designed in the Art Deco style by Raymond Hood, Rockefeller Center's lead architect. 30 Rockefeller Plaza was known for its main tenant, the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), from its opening in 1933 until 1988 and then for General Electric until 2015, when it was renamed for its owner Comcast. The building also houses the headquarters and New York studios of television network NBC; the headquarters is sometimes called 30 Rock, a nickname that inspired the NBC sitcom of the same name. The tallest structure in Rockefeller Center, the building is the 28th tallest in New York City and the 65th tallest in the United States, and was the third tallest building in the world when it opened.
30 Rockefeller Plaza's massing consists of three parts: the main 66-story tower to the east, a windowless section at the center, and a 16-story annex to the west. The building's design conforms with the 1916 Zoning Resolution; it is shaped mostly as a slab with setbacks primarily for aesthetic value. The facade is made of limestone, with granite at the base, as well as about 6,000 windows separated by aluminum spandrels. In addition to its offices and studios, 30 Rockefeller Plaza contains the Rainbow Room restaurant and an observation deck called Top of the Rock. 30 Rockefeller Plaza also includes numerous artworks and formerly contained the mural Man at the Crossroads by Diego Rivera. The entire Rockefeller Center complex is a New York City designated landmark and a National Historic Landmark, and parts of 30 Rockefeller Plaza's interior are also New York City landmarks.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “30 Rockefeller Plaza” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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