1211 Avenue of the Americas

1211 Avenue of the Americas
1211 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan
Alternative names	Celanese Building News Corp. Building
General information
Status	Completed
Type	Offices and television studios (Dow Jones & Company, Fox News, New York Post, The Wall Street Journal)
Architectural style	International Style
Location	1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York City, New York, U.S.
Coordinates	40°45′30″N 73°58′55″W / 40.758464°N 73.981806°W / 40.758464; -73.981806
Construction started	1968
Completed	1971
Opening	1973
Owner	Ivanhoé Cambridge
Height
Roof	592 ft (180.44 m)
Top floor	558 feet (170 m)
Technical details
Floor count	45
Floor area	1,854,912 sq ft (170,000 m2)
Lifts/elevators	36
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Wallace Harrison (Harrison, Abramovitz & Harris)
Developer	Rockefeller Group Development Corporation
Main contractor	Celanese Corporation and Rockefeller Center, Inc.
References
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1211 Avenue of the Americas, also known as the News Corp. Building, is an International Style skyscraper on Sixth Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Formerly called the Celanese Building, it was completed in 1973 as part of the later Rockefeller Center expansion (1960s–1970s) dubbed the "XYZ Buildings". Celanese, its primary tenant, later moved to Dallas, Texas. The building is owned by Ivanhoé Cambridge as of 2023^[update].^[3]

The structure has a simple slab-like shape devoid of any decoration, its prosaic façade consisting of vertical alternating limestone and glass stripes. The façade stone piers are supernumerary; there are twice as many of them as structurally necessary. The glass bands are contiguous and offer no indication of floor levels. These features ably create the visual lack of scale, so the tower does not look overly bulky.^[4]