Carnegie Hall Tower

Manhattan, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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Carnegie Hall Tower is a 60-story postmodern skyscraper at 152 West 57th Street in Midtown Manhattan, designed by César Pelli and completed in 1990. Rising 231 meters, the tower is among the world's most slender skyscrapers, measuring just 50 feet wide on 57th Street due to the constrained site occupied by Carnegie Hall and the Russian Tea Room. The façade features red-and-orange brick and cast-concrete decorations inspired by the adjacent Carnegie Hall's older architecture. The building employs an L-shaped plan through the 42nd floor and a rectangular plan above, supported by a concrete superstructure with two connected concrete tubes forming the core. A six-story base with setbacks from 57th Street anchors the structure, which contains 485,000 square feet of office space and 25,000 square feet for Carnegie Hall's offstage facilities. The design was widely praised by architectural critics, and the upper floors, which contain between 8,000 and 14,000 square feet per story, eventually commanded some of New York City's most expensive office space.