Carnegie Hall Tower

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Carnegie Hall Tower

Location	152 W. 57th Street New York City
Status	Complete
Constructed	1991
Roof	231 m
Floor count	60
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Architect	Cesar Pelli

Carnegie Hall Tower is a 60-story skyscraper located on 57th Street in New York City. Part of a cluster of three very tall buildings (along with CitySpire Center and Metropolitan Tower), the tower was built in an architectural style in harmony with its neighbor Carnegie Hall, a New York landmark.

The tower is 231 meters (757 feet) tall and was completed in 1991 following the design by Cesar Pelli first conceived in 1987. This design won an Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects in 1994.

The Carnegie Hall Tower seems impossibly slim from the front (the main shaft is 50 feet wide) however has wide sides facing its neighbors, the Russian Tea Room, Carnegie Hall and the Metropolitan Tower. It was clad in brick and glazed brick of several colors, with precast concrete "lintels" above windows, and painted metal bands at intervals of six floors. The large cornice atop the shaft is an open trellis of wide-flange steel sections. The lobby and common rooms are covered in marble and granite with hardwood and brass accents.

The structural system for this extremely slender tower (apparently a 15:1 aspect ratio, but still slender at 10:1, as it appears from 56th Street) is two joined tubes of cast-in-place concrete, designed by engineer Jacob Grossman of Robert Rosenwasser Associates.