One Worldwide Plaza
Manhattan, United States
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One Worldwide Plaza is a 237-meter office skyscraper in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, designed by David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and completed in the late 1980s as part of the larger Worldwide Plaza complex. The postmodern building exhibits classically inspired design: a granite base spanning three stories, a brick midsection with setbacks, and a distinctive pyramidal copper roof topped with a glass lantern. Inside, the structure accommodates subway access to the 50th Street station and features three double-height lobbies serving separate office floors. Upon opening, it attracted major tenants including advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather and law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Located at the easternmost position of Worldwide Plaza—a commercial and residential development occupying the entire block between Eighth and Ninth Avenues and 49th and 50th Streets—the building has changed hands multiple times, passing from Blackstone to Equity Office Properties, then to individual ownership before settling under American Realty Capital New York's controlling stake in 2017.
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- Type
- skyscraper
- Height
- 237.1 m
- Place
- Manhattan, United States
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