40 Wall Street
40 Wall Street (formerly known as Bank of Manhattan Company Building, since 1996 known as The Trump Building ) is the name of a 283 meter-high skyscraper in New York City, Lower Manhattan district. The tower in the style of Art Deco was designed by architect H. Craig Severance. The skyscraper built in 1930 was named in 1996 after renting and remodeling by the Trump Organization after its developer Trump. Owner of the building is the Hamburger family Hinneberg broker. The skyscraper located in the Financial District has 70 floors and is currently used by the company American Express. Currently (as of 2014), the building is the ninth highest in the city.
History and Architecture
The time still Bank of Manhattan Company Building -called building was completed in less than a year of construction 1930. With 283 meters, it was the tallest building in the world for a short time. After a few weeks it was beaten in the race for the title of the Chrysler Building. Its architect William Van Alen had the planned height of the Chrysler Building deliberately incorrectly specified in advance with 282 meters. Tucked inside the building crown, he had a 56 -meter-high and 27 -ton steel tip build and push it under the astonished gaze of the public in one piece up and assemble. This was outbid at once not only the Bank of Manhattan Company Building, but also the Eiffel Tower in Paris. However, the Chrysler Building was able to hold the record for only a short time. In 1931, the Empire State Building at 381 meters, the title of world's tallest building, now referred the Bank of Manhattan Company Building at No. 3 in 1932, it was surpassed by the 290 meter high 70 Pine Street again and to fourth place world ranking slid. Thus, it also lost its status as the tallest building in Lower Manhattan.
In the U.S. in 1929 was the great stock market crash which heralded the end of the ornate skyscrapers and marked the transition to greater sobriety in the design.
As for his reputation and his aesthetics, this building can not compete with the Chrysler Building. It offers nothing new except its height in principle. The central part is relatively simple in design and also the upper floors undergone any special appreciation. The striking from a distance easily recognizable high copper roof helmet is in the Gothic Revival style, which makes it similar to the slightly older Woolworth Building. Apart from the top of the building shows the Trump Building today called Building else a certain formal similarity with the almost the same time built the Empire State Building. Both start at the ground floor with huge blocks, which then taper gradually until the middle part is achieved by running unbroken to the top. Bizarre that both buildings were hit in the 1940s by a plane crash.