8 Spruce Street

8 Spruce Street (also known as Beekman Tower ) is a skyscraper in New York City. The building is located in the district of Lower Manhattan, which is located in the very south of Manhattan. The building was named for its address and be completed in 2011. The real estate company Forest City Ratner is owner and proprietor of the building, which was designed by architect Frank Gehry.

Description

After the construction project in the south of Manhattan had been presented to the public in 2005, in 2006 construction began. In November 2009, the building reached its maximum height of 267 meters and has been an outstanding and distinctive tower in the skyline of Südmanhattan. In September 2010 the work on the facade were completely finished. It is next to the windows of aluminum, which shimmers in a grayish tone. The official opening of the skyscraper took place on February 10, 2011. His dominance in the skyline of lower Manhattan is limited, however, in the meantime from the construction site of One World Trade Center, as it has already achieved a significantly greater height. From the famous Brooklyn Bridge on the other hand you have a very good view of the building.

The skyscraper has 76 floors above the ground floor, which are almost completely covered with living spaces. He is the tallest residential building in New York City and the United States. The tower surpassed the five meters lower Trump World Tower ( also in New York) in this discipline, and is also currently (as of 2014) the elfthöchste building in New York. The building is also the one with the fourth- most floors in the city. Only the One World Trade Center (105 stories ), the Empire State Building ( 102 floors ) and the Chrysler Building (77 floors) have more stories, apart from the construction site of One World Trade Center so far. The tower terminates with a flat roof and has some small recesses in shape. The main body acts on the viewer as two juxtaposed columns. The facade is slightly wavy and also has various structural patterns, the architectural lift the tower of many other buildings in the city. The supporting structure is made of reinforced concrete.

In the immediate vicinity is among other things the significantly lower Park Place Tower, also historically significant Woolworth Building is not far away.