1211 Avenue of the Americas

1211 Avenue of the Americas
1211 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan
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Alternative names
  • Celanese Building
  • News Corp. Building
General information
StatusCompleted
TypeOffices and television studios (Dow Jones & Company, Fox News, New York Post, The Wall Street Journal)
Architectural styleInternational Style
Location1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York City, New York, U.S.
Coordinates40°45′30″N 73°58′55″W / 40.758464°N 73.981806°W / 40.758464; -73.981806
Construction started1968
Completed1971
Opening1973
OwnerIvanhoé Cambridge
Height
Roof592 ft (180.44 m)
Top floor44
Technical details
Floor count45
Floor area1,854,912 sq ft (170,000 m2)
Lifts/elevators36
Design and construction
Architect(s)Wallace Harrison (Harrison, Abramovitz & Harris)
DeveloperRockefeller Group Development Corporation
Main contractorCelanese Corporation and Rockefeller Center, Inc.
References
[1][2]

1211 Avenue of the Americas, also known as the News Corp. Building, is an International Style skyscraper on Sixth Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Formerly called the Celanese Building, it was completed in 1973 as part of the later Rockefeller Center expansion (1960s–1970s) dubbed the "XYZ Buildings". Celanese, its primary tenant, later moved to Dallas, Texas. The building is owned by Ivanhoé Cambridge as of 2023.[3]

The structure has a simple slab-like shape devoid of any decoration, its prosaic façade consisting of vertical alternating limestone and glass stripes. The façade stone piers are supernumerary; there are twice as many of them as structurally necessary. The glass bands are continuous and offer no indication of floor levels. These features ably create the visual lack of scale, so the tower does not look overly bulky.[4]

  1. ^ "Emporis building ID 114547". Emporis. Archived from the original on March 7, 2016.
  2. ^ 1211 Avenue of the Americas at Structurae
  3. ^ "1211 Avenue of the Americas". Retrieved October 8, 2019.
  4. ^ Nash, Eric (1999). Manhattan Skyscrapers. Princeton Architectural Press. p. 127. ISBN 9781568981819. Retrieved December 28, 2018. Celanese Building.