70 Pine Street

70 Pine Street (former name of Cities Service Building and American International Building ) is a skyscraper in the eastern Lower Manhattan, New York City, which ranks among the highest in the city. The 290 meter tall skyscraper was completed in 1932.

The building is considered one of the most beautiful skyscrapers, particularly with regard to the design of the spire.

Description

The building is located in Downtown in the Financial District and is with its 67 storeys extremely slim. It is since the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center once again the tallest building in Lower Manhattan. Currently (as of 2014), it occupies the eighth place of the tallest buildings in New York. When the building was completed in 1932, it was until 1969, the third tallest building in the world, according to the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building, and thus also the third- highest in New York City until 1972, the North Tower of the World Trade Center was completed. From 2001 to 2007 it was again the third tallest building in the city until it was in 2007 and 2008 by the New York Times Tower and the Bank of America Tower surpassed. The position as the tallest building in lower Manhattan lost the building in 2012 at the construction site of One World Trade Center, the final level is at 541 meters since topping out in May 2013. Even the Four World Trade Center is seven meters higher than 70 Pine Street in Lower Manhattan.

Owner of the building was Cities Service Corporation, a petroleum company. Therefore, the name of the building at the time was Cities Service Building. Once Cities Service had moved their headquarters to Tulsa, Oklahoma, she sold the building in 1976 to the American International Group ( AIG). This was the building until 2012 the name of the American International Building. According to economic problems in the context of the financial crisis from 2007, AIG had the building on the property developer cream Eagle LLC.. sale Since the acquisition, the building was named after its address.

Current plans call remodel the building into a residential tower, the lower floors are to serve as a hotel. A total of about 700 residential units and 300 hotel rooms will be built.

In the 66th floor there is an observation deck with stunning views of Lower Manhattan. Previously, the platform for visitors was accessible, and later had only employees in the building entrance.

Architecture

The gradual development of the spire of the building is architecturally out particularly positive. Here there is no eccentric crown was placed on an otherwise different -looking midsection, but attempts have been made to an organic compound. One of the then sensational innovations of Towers: The top of the building is a good ten meters high light cubes. This was something completely different than the usual patch lanterns or the signal fire. What difference does that, can only experience at night.

At one of the entrances also the shape of the entire building was carved into the stone.

The building in the film

The building was previously seen in some movies: In the movie Spider -Man, the building was laid at the end of the movie for the action to Midtown Manhattan. It is also to examine in the movies Armageddon, Independence Day, Aftershock: Earthquake in New York, Team America: World Police and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.

Views

Exterior view from west

Illuminated spire at night from the sun

Look at the Lobby