4 Times Square
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Office skyscraper in Manhattan, New York
Key facts
- Alternative names
- Condé Nast Building, H&M Tower
- Status
- Completed
- Type
- Commercial offices
- Location
- 151 West 42nd Street & 1472 Broadway, Manhattan, New York
- Construction started
- 1996 ; 30 years ago ( 1996 )
- Completed
- 1999 ; 27 years ago ( 1999 )
- Opening
- June 21, 1999 ; 26 years ago ( 1999-06-21 )
- Owner
- New York City Economic Development Corporation
- Operator
- Durst Organization
- Antenna spire
- 1,118 ft (341 m)
- Roof
- 809 ft (247 m)
- Floor count
- 48 (usable stories only) , 52 (including mechanical stories)
- Floor area
- 1,600,000 sq ft (150,000 m )
- Architect
- Fox & Fowle Architects
- Developer
- Durst Organization
- Structural engineer
- WSP Cantor Seinuk , Cosentini Associates
- Main contractor
- Tishman Construction
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
One Five One
For over 100 years, The Durst Organization has been a family-run real estate company grounded in simple but profound principles: Innovation. Integrity. Community. Sustainability.
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Encyclopedic overview
4 Times Square (also known as 151 West 42nd Street, One Five One, or the H&M Tower; formerly the Condé Nast Building) is a 48-story skyscraper at Times Square in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, New York, U.S. Located at 1472 Broadway, between 42nd and 43rd Streets, the building measures 809 ft (247 m) tall to its roof and 1,118 ft (341 m) tall to its antenna. The building was designed by Fox & Fowle and developed by the Durst Organization. 4 Times Square, and the Bank of America Tower to the east, occupy an entire city block.
Fox & Fowle planned a masonry facade facing south and east, as well as a glass facade facing west and north. The northwest corner of the building's base contains the eight-story cylindrical facade of Nasdaq MarketSite, which includes a large LED sign. The top of 4 Times Square includes an antenna mast and four large illuminated signs on each side which read ‘H&M’. The building contains 1,600,000 sq ft (150,000 m) of floor space, much of which was originally taken by publishing company Condé Nast and law firm Skadden Arps. The lowest three stories contain retail space while the fourth story has a food hall for tenants, originally designed by Frank Gehry for Condé Nast. 4 Times Square is an early example of green design in commercial skyscrapers in the United States.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “4 Times Square” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.