McGraw-Hill Building

The name McGraw-Hill Building indicates two buildings distinct located in the Midtown from Manhattan at New York.

330 West 42nd Street

The original building McGraw-Hill building , of the architect Raymond Hood, on the 42nd Street (33 stages, 148 m in height) was completed in 1931, the same year as the Empire State Building. The frontages of the building are made squares of ceramics blue-green, alternating with high windows assembled on a green metal frame This building was only presented during the famous exposure of international Style of the Museum off Modern Art in 1932, it is also quoted like example of realization Art déco. Located at the west of the 42e street, between the Eighth and Ninth Avenues, the McGraw-Hill Building was the most building of the district of the Hell' S Kitchen during decades. It lost its statute during the construction of the One Worldwide Plaza, completed in 1989. It is always visible by far, but it is largely dominated by recent the Orion Building in same the urban small island, a residential complex of 58 stages also of green color.

1221 Avenue off the Americas

Largest of the two buildings of McGraw-Hill belongs to three constructions known under the name of XYZ Buildings . XYZ Buildings belonged to the extension of the Rockefeller Center in the Années 1960. All three were conceived by the architectural firm of Wallace Harrison.

The McGraw-Hill Building is the Y Building with the 1221 Avenue off the Americas . It was the completed first, in 1969, is the second in height with his 205 m and 51 stages and has: 241500 m ² of floor space. The X Building , 1251 Avenue off the Americas (Exxon Building), is largest with its 229 m and 54 stages, it was completed in 1971. Z the Building , smallest and most recent, is the Celanese Building with 45 stages and a height of 180 Mr.

The buildings are similar from their design and aspect with late the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in the Financial District.

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