Bertelsmann Building

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Bertelsmann Building
Information
Location Times Square, New York City, United States [1]
Coordinates 40°45′29″N 73°59′06″W / 40.758135, -73.984853
Status Complete
Groundbreaking 1989 [2]
Constructed 1990 [1][2]
Opening 1990
Use Office [2]
Height
Antenna/Spire 733 feet (223 m) [1][2]
Roof 616 feet (188 m) [2]
Floor count 42 [1]
Floor area 1,100,000 sq. feet (102,190 sq m) [2]
Companies
Architect Skidmore, Owings and Merrill [1]
Developer Eichner Properties [2]
Owner Bertelsmann [1]

Bertelsmann Building, originally known as 1540 Broadway,[3] is a 42-story, 733 foot (223 m) office tower in Times Square in Manhattan, New York City, standing at West 45th Street.[1] The building is the North American headquarters of Bertelsmann.[1][2]

Started in 1989 and finished in 1990, the tower is one of the few in Times Square to contain class A office space.[2][1] It contains the world's largest music store, a Virgin Megastore. Also found in the tower is Planet Hollywood's first Official All Star Café.[2][1]

In the 1990s the Bertelsmann subsidiary of Random House looked to build a skyscraper across 45th Street from its parent and be connected to it via a neon-lighted bridge across 45th Street connecting them.[4] When the deal fell through it built the Random House Tower 10 blocks uptown.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Bertelsmann Building. Emporis.com. Retrieved on 2008-01-10.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Bertelsmann Building. SkyscraperPage.com. Retrieved on 2008-01-10.
  3. ^ "Debacle on Times Square", New York Times, 1993-04-25. Retrieved on 2008-01-10. 
  4. ^ 55th Street Is Said to Be Site For a Random House Tower - New York Times - February 4, 1999

[edit] See also

[edit] Further reading

  • Jerry Adler (1994). High Rise: How 1,000 Men and Women Worked Around the Clock for Five Years and Lost $200 Million Building a Skyscraper, HarperCollins Publishers.
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