One Chase Manhattan Plaza
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Identification
Name
One Chase Manhattan Plaza
Alternative name
Chase Manhattan Bank Building
Emporis Building Number
116217
Location
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| Side address |
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| 34-44 Pine Street |
| Virtual address |
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| 16-48 Liberty Street |
| Virtual address |
| 26-40 Nassau Street |
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Block
44
Lot
100003
Neighborhood
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Map and Surrounding Area
Technical Data
Height (tip)
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Height (architectural)
247.81 m
Height (roof)
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Floors (above ground)
60
Floors (underground)
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Construction start
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Construction end
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Gross floor area
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Elevators
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Structure in General
Construction type
skyscraper
Current status
existing [completed]Structural material
steel
Facade material
aluminum
Facade system
curtain wall
Architectural style
international style
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Usages
Main usages
commercial officeFacts
Featured in the 1965 film "Mirage", directed by Edward Dmytryk. |
The sculpture work Group of Four Trees (1972) on the plaza is by Jean DuBuffet. There is also the 5-meter deep circular sunken well for Isamu Noguchi's Sunken Garden (1964), a water sculpture garden with basalt rocks imported from Japan. |
The complex spans two city blocks and uses the development rights from both. The office tower slab and five underground floors, occupying the Liberty Street side block and the adjoining block having an open plaza above two floors of banking space. |
Except for the central core for elevators etc., the only vertical supports are the massive columns outside the facade, thus freeing the office space from further columns. |
Construction started on 28 January 1957 and was completed by the summer of 1960. Construction cost US $121 million, plus the cost of obtaining the city blocks as the building site. |
Chief designer of the building was Gordon Bunshaft of  Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, who is also responsible for the famous Lever House on Park Avenue. |
The design is derived much from an earlier SOM project, the much smaller Inland Steel Building (1954-58) in Chicago, which pioneered the use of an exterior column system along with a vertically accentuated glass wall facade. |
The plaza is featured in the "Fun To Be Had" music video by Nitzer Ebb. |
First announced in 1955. |
Companies involved in this building