17 State Street

17 State Street
General information
Type Commercial offices
Location 17 State Street at Pearl Street
Manhattan, New York City, New York
Coordinates 40°42′10″N 74°00′51″W / 40.702795°N 74.014120°W / 40.702795; -74.014120Coordinates: 40°42′10″N 74°00′51″W / 40.702795°N 74.014120°W / 40.702795; -74.014120
Completed 1988
Owner RFR Holding
Management RFR Realty
Height
Roof 165.25 m (542.2 ft)
Technical details
Floor count 42
Floor area 540,000 sq ft (50,000 m2)
Design and construction
Architect Emery Roth & Sons
Structural engineer DeSimone Consulting Engineers
References
[1][2][3]

17 State Street is a 42-story building in the Financial District of Manhattan. It was designed by Emery Roth and Sons for developers William Kaufman Organization, and it is most noted for its distinct curved facade.[4] The building has been owned by RFR Holding since 1999 when it was acquired from Savannah Teachers Properties Inc. for $120 million.[5]

17 State Street was affected by Hurricane Sandy in October 2012, primarily water damage to electrical equipment in the building's basement. The building was closed for repair for approximately two weeks and was one of the earliest office buildings in the Financial District to be reoccupied after the storm.[6]

Architecture

In 1988, architecture critic Paul Goldberg, said "this is not a great building, but it is one of the few truly happy intersections of the realities of New York commercial development and serious architectural aspirations".[7]

Later, in 2008, Architecture critic Carter B. Horsley has referred to it as “the city’s most beautiful curved building”, competing with Jean Nouvel’s faceted 100 Eleventh Avenue, Philip Johnson’s Lipstick Building, and pre-war masterpieces such as 1 Wall Street Court (formerly the Cocoa Exchange) and the nearby Delmonico Building.[8][9]

References

Notes

  1. 17 State Street at Emporis
  2. "17 State Street". SkyscraperPage.
  3. 17 State Street at Structurae
  4. Wall, Diana diZerega; Cantwell, Anne-Marie (2008). Touring Gotham's Archaeological Past. Yale University Press. p. 27. ISBN 0300137893.
  5. Webb, Bailey (1 February 2000). "Office Beat". National Real Estate Investor. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
  6. Geiger, Daniel (5 November 2013). "Ill-fated 17 State St. soars anew". Crain's New York Business. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
  7. Goldberger, Paul (1988-07-17). "ARCHITECTURE VIEW; At 17 State Street, High Tech Passes Into the Vernacular". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
  8. "Details: Softening the Edges of the City:: Curved Buildings". www.thecityreview.com. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
  9. Horsley, Carter B. (31 January 2008). "Curved Buildings: Softening the Edges of the City". The New York Sun. Retrieved 2016-02-14.

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