The World Financial Center is a complex of buildings located in the district of Lower Manhattan, with New York. The complex is located on West Street, near the World Trade Center, and opposite the Hudson River. World Financial Center is composed of four principal buildings, One World Financial Center, the Two World Financial Center, the Three World Financial Center and the Furnace World Financial Center, connected to each other by Winter Garden, public space builds under a reinforcement of Verre and Acier culminating with 36 meters, by sheltering trees and plantations among which palm trees of twelve meters, coming from the Désert of Mojaves.
The complex shelters the seat of many affiliated undertakings more or less directly to the finance, among which Merrill Lynch and American Express, like Dow Jones & Company and the Wall Street Journal. The entirety of the complex is had by the real company Brookfield Properties , based with Toronto.
The architecture of the complex is the work of the American architect of Argentinian origin César Pelli in collaboration with Adamson Associates , and the construction, carried out under the supervision of the Canadian company Olympia and York spread out graft 1985 and 1988. The complex is built on fill, used for the construction of Battery Park City, the embankments coming him even from work of excavation of the World Trade Center, built in the Années 1970.
Buildings and tenants
The complex is composed of four principal towers, each one named by a number of one to four ( One, Two, Three, Four ). In addition to these principal towers, World Financial Center includes/understands Winter Garden, as well as NYMEX building, added in 1997.
One World Financial Center
One World Financial Center goes back to 1986. It culminates with 176 meters, and comprises 40 stages, and constitutes the third larger building of the complex. It is located at the 200 Liberty Street , has an entire surface of offices of 151,000 m ². It is recognizable by its square roof and inclined.
Among the tenants, one retouve Deloitte and Key (one of the major cabinets of To that the), Dow Jones & Co., Fidelity Investments, Lehman Brothers or Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft (law firm).
Two World Financial Center
The Two World Financial Center was completed in 1987. It comprises 40 stages, and culminates with 197 meters. It is localized with the 225 Liberty Street . The entire surface of creditable offices with lease is of 231,000 m ² what makes the vastest building of the complex. So roof is recognizable by its shape of dome.The principal tenants of the building are the Commerzbank, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Merrill Lynch, Nomura Group (Japanese conlomérat), State Street Corp. and Thacher Proffitt & Wood (law firm).
Three World Financial Center
The Three World Financial Center, completed in 1985 is the first tower of to be completed complex, but also highest, with a pyramidal roof the 225 m for 51 stages reach. Paradoxically, the building, localized with the 200 Vesey Street is of the four principal buildings that which offers the smallest surface of spaces in hiring (111,000 m ²).
Three World Financial Center shelters the seat of American Express (which is besides owner his space), but also BearingPoint, the Securities and Exchange Commission (more usually SEC) like Computer Generated Solutions Inc.
Furnace World Financial Center
The Furnace World Financial Center (or “northern turn”), completed in 1986 is localized with the 250 Vesey Street . It measures 152 meters for 34 stages, and the 167,000 m ² of creditable offices are completely occupied by Merrill Lynch. The building is recognizable by its square, and formed roof of several steps.
Winter Garden
Winter Garden is a public space, which is used as connection between the various towers of World Financial Center. It acts in fact a gigantic dome of Acier and Verre of a total surface of 4180m ². Under the dome shops and coffees are côtoient (between the turns two and three), with a botanical decoration made up of plants and trees coming from various areas, including sixteen palm trees of twelve meters imported of the Désert of Mojaves in California. Surface available to the hiring is of 27,000 m ², and the principal shops are held by Banana Republic (clothing of luxury), Eckerd (pharmacies), Gap, Hallmark Cards (greetings cards) or Starbucks.
Consecutively with the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, Winter Garden was closed and renovated, before reopening its doors in September 2002.
The NYMEX Building
Addition in 1997, NYMEX Building , located at the 1 North End Avenue counts only sixteen stages, for a creditable surface of 46,000 m ². As its name indicates it, the NYMEX Building is rented by the New York Mercantile Exchange (or NYMEX), but also by the New York Board off Trade (or NYBT).
See too
Internal bonds
External bonds
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Official site of World Financial Center
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