Random House Tower
| Random House Tower and Park Imperial | |
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The tower from the southwest
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| General information | |
| Status | Complete |
| Type | Apartments and headquarters of Random House |
| Location | 1745 Broadway/230 West 56th Street, New York City |
| Coordinates | 40°45′55″N 73°58′57″W / 40.765341°N 73.982502°WCoordinates: 40°45′55″N 73°58′57″W / 40.765341°N 73.982502°W |
| Construction started | 2000 |
| Completed | 2003 |
| Cost | $300 Million |
| Owner | SL Green/Ivanhoé Cambridge/Witkoff/Lehman Brothers (Office portion) |
| Height | |
| Roof | 684 ft (208 m) |
| Top floor | 52 |
| Technical details | |
| Floor area | 860,036 sq ft (79,900.0 m2) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and Ismael Leyva |
| Structural engineer | Thornton Tomasetti |
The Random House Tower, also known as the Park Imperial Apartments, is a 52-storymixed-use tower in New York City, United States, that is used as the headquarters of book publisher Random House and a luxury apartment complex. The book publisher entrance is on Broadway and goes up to 27 floors, while the apartment complex entrance is on 56th Street.
Separate architects designed each of the sections. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill designed the office portion, which has a steel frame. Ismael Leyva Architects and Adam D. Tihany designed the residential portion, which has a concrete frame. The two sections do not entirely line up, and trusses were built on the 26th and 27th floor to transfer the load.
The apartments have three-meter ceilings, and there are five penthouses of up to 2,970 sq ft (276 m2) in size. Although the apartments start above the 27th floor of the office portion, the residential floors are numbered 48-70 for marketing purposes. Among the first tenants were P. Diddy and New York Yankees pitcher Randy Johnson.
At the top of the building are two fluid tuned mass dampers - the first of their kind in the city - which are designed to damp building sway. Similar dampers are employed in the Citigroup Center building, although Citigroup's dampers are made of concrete. Random House's dampers have capacities of 265,000 and 379,000 liters of water.
The complex is on a trapezoidal block between 55th Street and 56th Street and follows the angle of Broadway. It has jagged setbacks, similar in shape to the towers of Rockefeller Center, to improve the views of Central Park.
Critics have noted that its three main towers give it the impression of being three books (although the architects referred to them as "three sliding crystals").
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