COLLECTION NAME:
Archivision Base to Module 9
Record
Preferred Title:
Trump Tower (New York)
Image View:
General context view looking up the Trump Tower from Fifth Avenue
Creator:
Swanke Hayden Connell Architects (American architectural firm, renamed 1981)
Location:
site: New York, New York, United States
Location Note:
721 Fifth Avenue
Date:
1983 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
Modernist, Modern
Work Type 1:
mixed-use development
Work Type 2:
skyscraper
Classification:
architecture
Material:
steel; glass (bronze-colored glass)
Technique:
construction (assembling)
Subjects:
architectural exteriors; business, commerce and trade; contemporary (1960 to present)
Description:
Trump Tower is a 58-story skyscraper in New York City located at 721 Fifth Avenue (Manhattan), at the corner of 56th Street. The mixed-use tower was developed by Donald Trump and the Equitable Life Assurance Company. Designed by Der Scutt of Swanke, Hayden Connell, it was completed in 1983. The tower is a reinforced concrete, shear-wall/core structure and was the tallest structure of this type in New York City when completed. A concrete hat-truss at the top of the building ties exterior columns with the concrete core. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
Image Description:
super wide angle lens
Collection:
Archivision Base Collection
Identifier:
1A2-US-NY-TT-A1
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Trump Tower (New York)
