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For other buildings of the same name, see Trump Tower. Retail, office, and residential in NY , United States
Trump Tower
Trump Tower viewed from Fifth Avenue
General information
StatusCompleted
TypeRetail, office, and residential
Location725 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10022
United States
Construction started1979
Completed1983
OpeningNovember 30, 1983
OwnerDonald Trump
Height
Roof203 m (664 ft)
Technical details
Floor count58
Design and construction
Architect(s)Der Scutt
DeveloperDonald Trump
Structural engineerIrwin Cantor

Trump Tower is a 58-story mixed-use skyscraper located on Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Designed by Der Scutt of Swanke Hayden Connell and developed by Donald Trump, and the Equitable Life Assurance Company (renamed the AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company in 2004), Trump Tower serves as the headquarters for The Trump Organization and houses the primary penthouse condominium residence of Donald Trump. The ground floor stores in the tower were opened for business on November 30, 1983. The grand opening of the atrium and stores was held on February 14, 1983, with the apartments and offices following shortly thereafter. HRH Construction was the contractor on the building and the construction executive was Barbara Res.

Architecture

Trump Tower was constructed on the former site of the Bonwit Teller flagship store, an architecturally renowned building demolished by Trump in 1980. Trump had originally intended for the Art Deco exterior limestone bas-relief sculptures of semi-nude goddesses, as well as the massive ornate 15' by 25' grille above the store's entrance, to be removed and be donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. However, the sculptures ended up being destroyed, with Trump citing safety and general hazard concerns, expense, and a possible 10-day construction delay due to the difficulty of removing them as the reasons. The building's decorative grille, supposedly transported to a New Jersey warehouse, was never recovered. Architect Der Scutt was outraged by the destruction, having initially hoped to incorporate the goddess sculptures into the new building's lobby design; Trump had rejected the plan, preferring something "more contemporary".

The atrium of the building

Trump Tower is the 64th tallest building in New York City. The tower is a reinforced concrete, shear wall core structure and was the tallest structure of this type in New York City when completed. A concrete hat-truss at the top of the building ties exterior columns with the concrete core. This increases the effective dimensions of the core to that of the building in order to resist the overturning of lateral forces (wind, minor earthquakes, and impacts perpendicular to the building’s height). A similar structure was used for Trump World Tower.

Ordinarily a building of that height could not have been built on the small site. By mixing uses (retail, office, and residential), constructing a through-block arcade (connecting to the IBM building to the east), and using the air rights from Tiffany’s flagship store next door, and including the atrium, which was designed as a “public space” under the city codes at the time, Trump was able to assemble a bonus package that enabled a taller tower.

The building’s public spaces are clad in Breccia Pernice, a pink white-veined marble. Mirrors and brass are used throughout. This includes the office lobby, off Fifth Avenue, and the five-level atrium which features a 60 foot high internal waterfall alongside the eastern wall spanned by a suspended walkway atop, shops, cafés, and a pedestrian bridge that crosses over the waterfall’s pool. The atrium is crowned with a skylight. In 2006, Forbes Magazine valued the tower at $318 million; as of 2013, Trump was reportedly paying a $100 million mortgage on the property. Trump Tower was the setting of the NBC television show The Apprentice including the famous boardroom where at least one person was fired at the end of each episode. The boardroom that was prominently featured in the television show incorporates a fully functional television studio set inside Trump Tower.

Controversies

Journalist David Cay Johnston questioned the particular use of concrete, and suggested there was a connection with organized crime.

Trump testified in 1990 he was unaware that 200 undocumented Polish immigrants, some of whom lived at the site during a transit strike and worked round-the-clock shifts, were involved in the destruction of the former Bonwit Teller building and Trump Tower project. Trump said that he rarely visited the demolition site and never noticed the laborers, who were known as the "Polish Brigade" and who were visually distinct for their lack of hard hats. A labor consultant and FBI informant, separately convicted on tax evasion charges, testified that Trump was aware of the illegal workers' status. In testimony, Trump admitted that he and an executive used the pseudonym "John Baron" in some of his business dealings, although Trump claimed that he did not do so until years after Trump Tower was constructed. A labor lawyer testified that he was threatened over the phone with a $100 million lawsuit by someone using that name from the Trump Organization. ("Lots of people use pen names", Trump quipped to a reporter. "Ernest Hemingway used one.") Filed in 1983, the class-action lawsuit over unpaid labor union pension and medical obligations went through several appeals and non-jury trials, and was at one point compared by a presiding judge to Jarndyce and Jarndyce, the seemingly unending case which forms the backbone of Charles Dickens' Bleak House. The lawsuit was ultimately settled in 1999, with its records sealed.

Trump was granted permission by the City of New York to build the top 20 stories of the building in exchange for operating the atrium as a public space, owned by the city. In the lobby of the building are two Trump merchandise kiosks (one of which replaced a long public bench) operating out of compliance with city regulations. The city issued a notice of violation in July 2015 demanding the bench be put back in place. Although the Trump Organization initially said that the violation was without merit, a lawyer speaking for Trump's organization stated in January 2016 the kiosks would be removed in two to four weeks, prior to an expected court ruling.

Before the demolition of the Bonwit Teller building, Trump promised to donate the sculptures from the structure's Art Deco facade, as well as the decorative grillwork above the store's main entrance, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The museum's appraised valued the sculptures at at least $200,000. However, without warning, Trump's workmen shattered the sculptures with jackhammers and cut the grillwork into scrap metal. Several days later, Trump admitted that he had ordered the destruction himself. Later in 1980, he boasted that the decor of his Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City included "real art, not like the junk I destroyed at Bonwit Teller". The New York Times condemned Trump's actions as "esthetic vandalism", and a spokesman for Mayor Edward Koch said Trump had failed his "moral responsibility to consider the interests of the people of the city”.

Notable tenants

Current

Trump Tower seen from the entrance
Christmas tree in the lobby, December 2014

Past

Appearance in film

The tower served as the location for Wayne Enterprises in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises.

See also

References

Notes

  1. ^ "New York Metro Short List: Trump's Edifice Complex".
  2. "Trump Tower". SkyscraperPage.com. Retrieved November 22, 2007.
  3. Matt Flegenheimer and Maggie Haberman (March 29, 2016). "With the New York Presidential Primary, the Circus Is Coming Home". The New York Times. Retrieved March 29, 2016.
  4. Rubin, Sy, and Jonathan Mandell. Trump Tower. Secaucus, N.J.: L. Stuart, 1984
  5. ^ Gray, Christopher (October 3, 2014). "The Store That Slipped Through the Cracks". The New York Times. Retrieved August 22, 2015.
  6. "YouTube".
  7. ^ Leccese, Michael (July 1, 1980). "New York City Trumped: Developer Smashes Panels". Preservation News. Retrieved August 22, 2015.
  8. "About - Trump Tower NY".
  9. Katherine Clarke (July 1, 2013). "What does Donald Trump really own". The Real Deal. Retrieved January 18, 2016.
  10. "Trump Tower New York - History Of Trump Tower NYC".
  11. Johnston, David Cay (July 10, 2015). "21 Questions For Donald Trump". The National Memo. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
  12. ^ Baquet, Dean (July 13, 1990). "Trump Says He Didn't Know He Employed Illegal Aliens". The New York Times. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
  13. ^ Daly, Michael (July 8, 2015). "Trump Tower Was Built On Undocumented Workers' Backs". The Daily Beast. Retrieved August 24, 2015.
  14. Raab, Selwyn (June 14, 1998). "After 15 Years in Court, Workers' Lawsuit Against Trump Faces Yet Another Delay". The New York Times. Retrieved August 24, 2015.
  15. Barbanel, Josh. "Trump and New York City Spar Over Access to Tower Lobby". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved December 11, 2015.
  16. Chaban, Matt A. V. (January 28, 2016). "Trump Tower to Remove Disputed Kiosks From Public Atrium". The New York Times. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
  17. ^ "Trump's first media controversy is a really great story - The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram". March 18, 2016.
  18. Developer Smashes Panels -- New York City trumped, Preservation News, July 1980
  19. "Trumping the Town", New York, November 17, 1980
  20. ^ Cindy Boren (May 27, 2015). "Ex-FIFA official had $6,000-a-month Trump Tower apartment for unruly cats". The Washington Post. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
  21. "Cristiano se compra un loft en la Torre Trump" [Cristiano buys a loft in Trump Tower]. El Mundo (in Spanish). August 18, 2015. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  22. Alessandra Corrêa (November 4, 2015). "Conheça o luxuoso endereço em NY onde Marin cumpre prisão domiciliar". Folha de S. Paulo. Retrieved November 4, 2015.
  23. ^ Amanda Julius (July 22, 2010). "In Deed! Art Dealer Expands in Trump Tower; Vanity Fair Articles Editor Buys in Chelsea". The New York Observer. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
  24. Woodruff, Betsy; Mak, Tim (September 30, 2015). "Trump Tower: Dictators' Home Away From Home". The Daily Beast. Retrieved September 30, 2015.
  25. "Filming Locations for Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises (2012), with Christian Bale, in New York, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, the UK and India".

Bibliography

  • Rubni, Sy (October 1984). Trump Tower (1st ed.). Lyle Stuart.
  • Gardener, Ralf Jr (May 8, 2003). "For Tower Residents, a New Math". The New York Times.
  • Horsley, Carter B. "The City Book: Trump Tower".

Further reading

  • Dirk Stichweh: New York Skyscrapers. Prestel Publishing, Munich 2009, ISBN 3-7913-4054-9
  • Barbara A. Res PE Esq. "All Alone on the 68th Floor: How one Woman Changed the Face of Construction" Createspace Publishing, New Jersey, July 2013

External links

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