Morgan Stanley Corporate Headquarters (New York City, New York)
USA /
New Jersey /
West New York /
New York City, New York /
Broadway, 1585
World
/ USA
/ New Jersey
/ West New York
World / United States / New York
office building, skyscraper, 1990_construction, postmodern (architecture)
685-foot, 42-story postmodern office building completed in 1990. Designed by Gwathmey Siegel & Associates with Emery Roth & Sons as the headquarters for Solomon Equities, it later became the world headquarters of Morgan Stanley two years after they bought the building in 1993. The building is built on a trapezoidal plot with the 6-story base aligned with Broadway.
The base spans ten bays on the angled east facade along Broadway, eight bays on the south facade on 47th Street, and seven bays on the north facade on 48th, all divided by piers clad in grey granite. The bays along Broadway all have stainless-steel-and-glass storefronts, as do some of the recessed eastern bays on the north and south elevations. The 2nd bay from the east on these two facades have the main building entrances, slightly more recessed than the storefronts, with pairs of revolving doors in a wall of glass and stainless-steel framing. The westernmost bay on both the north and south sides has an entrance/exit to the underground parking garage, and the three next bays on 47th Street have wide loading docks.
The northeast and southeast corners are notched at the ground floor, with cylindrical video boards projecting out on the 2nd-3rd floors. On the east facade, the 2nd-3rd floors have curtain walls of dark glass (three panes across in each bay, with the center pane slightly wider, stacked five high) framed at top and bottom by grey stone panels.
The triple-height 7th floor contains most of the building's mechanical equipment and site control center. It is clad in the same grey panels as the base, with each facade having a large rectangle of black metal vent panels in the center and similar, narrower rectangles wrapping around the four corners. The east side of the 7th floor, set back from the base, bows outward in a wide curve, with the rest of the tower's east facade rising vertically above and behind it. The bays are divided by projecting, vertical fins of black glass, angled to points at their edges where they are highlighted by vertical strips of blue glass with LEDs. The north and south facades have bands of windows at the 2nd & 3rd floors, except at the bays above the entrances, which have double-height recessed glass curtain walls. The base has a setback above the 3rd floor on all three main facade sides. The upper half of the base is similarly clad, with a glass curtain wall at the eastern end. There is a digital video board at the far east end of the north and south facades, and a 3-tiered, long digital scroll along most of the east facade which was fabricated by Artkraft Strauss.
The tower portion rises from the west five bays of the base, square in plan. The corners of the tower are textured with alternating horizontal bands of blue glass and light-grey granite, and the middle of each facade has a wide band of blue glass running up and meeting at the pyramidal top. There is another mechanical floor a little more than halfway up, this one double-height.
At the crown of the building the corners fall away in setbacks, with blue glass curtain wall taking over from the alternating bands on the top floors. The four angled glass walls at the top form a cut pyramid with a flat top; steel structural beams continue above the flat edges to complete the pyramid's apex, bracing an antenna array in the center.
The ground floor is occupied by a Metro Lobby Newsstand, Rhone boutique, and a Starbucks coffee.
www.morganstanley.com/
The base spans ten bays on the angled east facade along Broadway, eight bays on the south facade on 47th Street, and seven bays on the north facade on 48th, all divided by piers clad in grey granite. The bays along Broadway all have stainless-steel-and-glass storefronts, as do some of the recessed eastern bays on the north and south elevations. The 2nd bay from the east on these two facades have the main building entrances, slightly more recessed than the storefronts, with pairs of revolving doors in a wall of glass and stainless-steel framing. The westernmost bay on both the north and south sides has an entrance/exit to the underground parking garage, and the three next bays on 47th Street have wide loading docks.
The northeast and southeast corners are notched at the ground floor, with cylindrical video boards projecting out on the 2nd-3rd floors. On the east facade, the 2nd-3rd floors have curtain walls of dark glass (three panes across in each bay, with the center pane slightly wider, stacked five high) framed at top and bottom by grey stone panels.
The triple-height 7th floor contains most of the building's mechanical equipment and site control center. It is clad in the same grey panels as the base, with each facade having a large rectangle of black metal vent panels in the center and similar, narrower rectangles wrapping around the four corners. The east side of the 7th floor, set back from the base, bows outward in a wide curve, with the rest of the tower's east facade rising vertically above and behind it. The bays are divided by projecting, vertical fins of black glass, angled to points at their edges where they are highlighted by vertical strips of blue glass with LEDs. The north and south facades have bands of windows at the 2nd & 3rd floors, except at the bays above the entrances, which have double-height recessed glass curtain walls. The base has a setback above the 3rd floor on all three main facade sides. The upper half of the base is similarly clad, with a glass curtain wall at the eastern end. There is a digital video board at the far east end of the north and south facades, and a 3-tiered, long digital scroll along most of the east facade which was fabricated by Artkraft Strauss.
The tower portion rises from the west five bays of the base, square in plan. The corners of the tower are textured with alternating horizontal bands of blue glass and light-grey granite, and the middle of each facade has a wide band of blue glass running up and meeting at the pyramidal top. There is another mechanical floor a little more than halfway up, this one double-height.
At the crown of the building the corners fall away in setbacks, with blue glass curtain wall taking over from the alternating bands on the top floors. The four angled glass walls at the top form a cut pyramid with a flat top; steel structural beams continue above the flat edges to complete the pyramid's apex, bracing an antenna array in the center.
The ground floor is occupied by a Metro Lobby Newsstand, Rhone boutique, and a Starbucks coffee.
www.morganstanley.com/
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Morgan_Stanley_Building
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Coordinates: 40°45'36"N 73°59'7"W
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