20 Exchange Place

20 Exchange Place is a 57- story skyscraper in New York, which was completed in 1931. The building is located in lower Manhattan near the New York Stock Exchange. The name of the office tower is derived from its address.

Description

The construction work on the building began in the year 1930 and could be finished already after one year. The 20 Exchange Place has 57 floors and is 226 meters high, making it the 33 - tallest building in the city of New York to the level of 2014. After its completion, the building was briefly the fifth tallest skyscraper in New York. Originally, typical of the 1930s, built in the Art Deco style, skyscraper should be 257 meters high and the 241 -meter high Woolworth Building from 1913 to replace as the tallest building in the world. However, after 1931, in New York much taller buildings, such as the Empire State Building at 381 meters and the 319 -meter-high Chrysler Building, standing and the world record no longer seemed attainable, the level was again reduced to 226 meters.

The building emerges from the southern Manhattan skyline out in a very slender shape. Only the lower floors take up more space in the base claim. From a height of about 80 meters, the building soars up to the roof in 226 meters height very lean on.

The building already had more than one name: City Bank Farmers Trust Building (1931-1955), First National City Bank of New York (1955-1956) and Citibank Building ( 1956-1979 ). Today Western World Company Incorporated owns the building. Since 1995, 20 Exchange Place, a National Historic Landmark.