City Spire Center

City Spire Center ( CitySpire Center ) - a mixed-use skyscraper in New York . Located on 56th Street between 6th and 7th Avenue in downtown Manhattan . Built in 1987, it has 248 meters of height, 75 floors and a total area of ​​33,400 square meters. m. The building is owned by Tishman Speyer Properties .

Skyscraper new york city
City Spire Center
English CitySpire Center
Construction period	n.d. —1987
Using	Office building / apartment
Height	248 m
Area of ​​premises	77 107 m²
Storeys	75
Specifications
Architect	Ian Helmut
Owner	Tishman speaker
Location
Address	Manhattan , West 56th Street, 156
Underground	57 th St / 7 th Ave ( N , Q , R , W )
Postal codes
City Spire Center
Emporis	114433
SkyscraperPage	7153
Skyscraper center
Structurae	20021961

It is the 9th tallest building in New York and the 39th in the USA. The lower 23 floors of the building are intended for commercial use, the rest are luxury housing, which increases in size with an increase in the number of storeys.

Soon after the construction was completed, residents of neighboring houses on 55th Street began to complain about the whistling noise from the wind blowing through the structures on the dome. The city was threatened with daily fines for noise that lasted more than a year. The developers fixed the problem by removing the curtains and thus expanding the channels through which the wind whistled.

The dome, made in the Moorish style, is illuminated at night, and the building itself has an unusual octagonal shape.

City Spa Center is located near two skyscrapers on 57th Street - Carnegie Hall Tower (which copies the design of the concert hall of the same name) and the Metropolitan Tower.

Some time after construction, it became noticeable that the building was 14 feet (4 m) above the height. To compensate for this, the developers added a dance studio for the city Department of Culture on an adjacent site.