225 Liberty Street
| 225 Liberty Street | |
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| General information | |
| Location |
West Street between Liberty Street and Vesey Streets New York, NY 10007, United States |
| Coordinates | 40°42′45″N 74°00′55″W / 40.71250°N 74.01528°WCoordinates: 40°42′45″N 74°00′55″W / 40.71250°N 74.01528°W |
| Construction started | 1984 |
| Completed | 1987 |
| Cost | $800 million (USD) |
| Owner | Brookfield Office Properties |
| Height | |
| Roof | 645 ft (197 m) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 44 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Haines Lundberg Waehler, Cesar Pelli & Associates |
| Structural engineer | Thornton-Tomasetti Engineers |
225 Liberty Street, formerly Two World Financial Center, is one of the largest skyscrapers in New York City, located at 225 Liberty Street in the Financial District of the New York City borough of Manhattan. Rising 645 feet (197 m), the building is the second tallest of the four buildings in the World Financial Center complex that stands in southwest Manhattan. It is similar in design to Three World Financial Center, except that its roof is dome-shaped rather than 3 WFC's solid pyramid design. It is notably similar in design to One Canada Square in London's Canary Wharf development. Canary Wharf was, like the World Financial Center, a project by Canadian developers Olympia and York, and One Canada Square was designed by the same architects.
The building is home to Time Inc., BNY Mellon, Commerzbank, First Data, Oppenheimer Funds, Inc., State Street Corporation, McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP, Thacher Proffitt & Wood, LLP, and several divisions of France Telecom, among other companies. It is an example of postmodern architecture, as designed by Cesar Pelli & Associates, and contains over 2,491,000 square feet (231,400 m2) of rentable office area. It connects to the rest of the World Financial Center complex through a courtyard leading to the Winter Garden, a dramatic glass-and-steel public space with a 120-foot vaulted ceiling under which there is an assortment of trees and plants, including sixteen 12-meter palm trees from the Mojave Desert.
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