Singer Building

The Singer Building was a skyscraper in New York City.

History

In 1902 the plans for the expansion of the headquarters of the Singer Company were presented. First, the building was to be only about 300 feet high, but the amount was increased to almost double. The architect was Ernest Flagg. Work on the 149 Broadway and Liberty Street began in 1906 and ended in 1908. With 187 meters (612 feet) and 47 floors, it was for a short time, until the opening of the Metropolitan Life Tower in 1909, the tallest building in the world.

The company Singer used the upper floors of the tower - including the six bullets in the lantern of the tower - even and let the floors below the 31 stocks. In the 40th floor there was a viewing platform for visitors. The building became the benchmark for the New York Building Code of 1916, as the tower occupied only 25 percent of the site area. For future construction projects, this was the default.

In 1968 the building was demolished to make way for the U.S. Steel Building (now One Liberty Plaza). 2001 solved the twin towers of the World Trade Center, the Singer Building as the tallest building used that was ever destroyed from. However, it remains the tallest building ever to be demolished today.

Left the figure behind the Singer Building also still the 148 -meter-high City Investing Building to see, which was completed in 1908 and demolished in 1968 also. It is in New York today the third tallest demolished building (after the German Bank Building ). The City Investing Building and the Singer Building had taken almost an entire block, today there is the One Liberty Plaza.

Architecture

The slender tower rising followed the type of a lighthouse. The tower itself rose only above the 15th floor in the middle of a complex of two buildings on lower that had been previously built by Flagg.