Citigroup Center

New York City, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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The Citigroup Center, completed in 1977 at 601 Lexington Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, is a 915-foot modernist office skyscraper designed by Hugh Stubbins with Emery Roth & Sons and structural engineer William LeMessurier. Clad in glass, steel, and aluminum, the 59-story tower contains 1.3 million square feet of office space and sits on four distinctive giant stilts positioned mid-wall rather than at the corners, creating a dramatic cantilever that allows St. Peter's Lutheran Church—a granite structure also designed by Stubbins—to nestle beneath its northwestern overhang. The building's most striking features include its distinctive 45-degree sloped roof and upper-story stacked inverted chevron braces. The base incorporates a sunken plaza, shopping concourse, and access to the Lexington Avenue/51st Street subway station. Shortly after its 1977 completion, a critical structural vulnerability to high winds was discovered and remedied. The tower garnered mixed critical reception alongside architectural awards and was designated a New York City landmark in 2016.