125 West 55th Street
| 125 West 55th Street | |
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125 West 55th Street along 55th Street.
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| Alternative names | Avenue of the Americas Plaza |
| General information | |
| Type | Office |
| Architectural style | Modernist |
| Location | 125 West 55th Street, Manhattan, New York City, U.S. 10019 |
| Coordinates | 40°45′49″N 73°58′44″W / 40.763607°N 73.979002°W |
| Construction started | 1988 |
| Completed | 1990 |
| Owner | J.P. Morgan Asset Management |
| Height | 100.6 m (330 ft) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 22 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Edward Larrabee Barnes |
| Developer | Macklowe Properties |
| Structural engineer | Rosenwasser / Grossman Consulting Engineers, P.C. |
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125 West 55th Street, also known as Avenue of the Americas Plaza, is a 23-story, 575,000-square-foot (53,400 m2) office building located on 55th Street between the Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) and Seventh Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The building also has an entrance at 120 West 56th Street, across the street from the Le Parker Meridien Hotel.
The facility, with 570,000 square feet (53,000 m2) of rentable office space, was developed by The Macklowe Organization. The building, designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes, has 23,000-square-foot (2,100 m2) floorplates. The second floor of the building houses Air France's United States executive offices.Macquarie Bank houses its New York representative office in the building. Boston Properties currently owns and manages the building. The building also houses offices of Katz Media, a division of Clear Channel Communications.
The building had a cost of $60 million in 1988 dollars. The Saint Thomas Choir School previously occupied the site, before the construction of the skyscraper. The choir school moved into a new building as the previous one was replaced. Fisher Brothers constructed the building.
Construction on 125 West 55th Street began in 1988. In order to capitalize on a City of New York zoning bonus, the developers planned to have the building's foundation installed by May 13, 1988; buildings in the area installed before a deadline in the northern hemisphere spring of 1988 received a 20% increase in size in order to spur development of western Midtown Manhattan. The developers planned to have tenants begin occupying the building in May 1989. The building was completed in 1990.
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