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55 Water Street is a 687-foot-tall (209 m) skyscraper on the East River in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States. The 53-story, 3.5-million-square-foot (325,000 m 2 ) structure was completed in 1972.
Designed by Emery Roth & Sons, it was the largest office building in the world when completed. It contains 278,800 square meters of office space. The facades are clad in concrete panels, with piers dividing each elevation into bays of four dark-tinted windows.
55 Water Street. Function. A single-function tall building is defined as one where 85% or more of its usable floor area is dedicated to a single usage. Thus a building with 90% office floor area would be said to be an "office" building, irrespective of other minor functions it may also contain.
Description. Architect: Emery Roth & Sons. Plaza renovation architect (2004): Rogers Marvel. When it opened in 1972 55 Water was the largest office building in the world. Today largest office building (square feet) in NYC.
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Oct 15, 2018 · The Class A office building at 55 Water Street, known simply as 55 Water, was once the largest office building in the world. At 3.9 million square feet of interior space, it remains the largest in New York City by area.
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Designed by Rogers Partners with Ken Smith Landscape Architect, the park is one acre in total area, was built above a four-story parking facility, and ties into the planned Green Necklace that circles the edge of Manhattan.
In 1961 a new policy was introduced allowing developers to add extra storeys onto buildings on one condition: some of the space created be devoted for a public plaza. 55 Water Street was extended and a public plaza was made, the Elevated Acre.
