Carnegie Hall Tower is a 60-story skyscraper on 57th Street in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. The tower was designed to harmonize with its western neighbor Carnegie Hall, an official city and national landmark. Carnegie Hall Tower is part of a cluster of tall buildings near 57th Street and Seventh Avenue, along with CitySpire Center, Metropolitan Tower and One57.
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Carnegie Hall Tower is 757 feet (231 m) tall and has a primary frontage measuring 50 feet (15 m) wide. Its side elevations (facing the Russian Tea Room and Metropolitan Tower on the east and Carnegie Hall on the west) are much wider. It was clad in brick and glazed brick of several colors, with precast concrete lintels above windows, and painted metal bands at intervals of six floors. The large cornice atop the shaft is an open trellis of wide-flange steel sections. The lobby and common rooms are covered in marble and granite with hardwood and brass accents.
The structural system for this extremely slender tower (2.8:1 aspect ratio above the 44th floor) is two joined tubes of cast-in-place concrete, designed by engineer Jacob Grossman of Robert Rosenwasser Associates.