1 New York Plaza by fevzitopcular

1 New York Plaza is an office building in New York City's Financial District, built in 1969 at the intersection of South and Whitehall Streets. It is the southernmost of all Manhattan skyscrapers. The building is 640 feet (195 m) tall with 50 floors. The building was designed by William Lescaze & Assocs. and Kahn & Jacobs. The building has 2.556 million square feet of office space. There is a 40,000 square feet (3,700 m2) retail concourse on the lower level.[1] The facade was designed by Nevio Maggiora, consisting of a boxlike "beehive" pattern with the windows recessed within, made of aluminum-clad wall elements resembling a type of thermally activated elevator button popular at the time of construction. Notable occupants of One New York Plaza include Salomon Brothers in its heyday, Goldman Sachs,[2] Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson,[2] and Morgan Stanley.[3] via 500px http://j.mp/1CwXhUT