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New York City NY United States

Status:
cancelled
Floor Count108
Building Uses
 - office
Structural Types
 - highrise

 Heights ValueSource / Comments 
Spire1497 ftUnconfirmed
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Description
Architect: I.M. Pei

Developer: Webb & Knapp

Design completed 1956.

Grand Central Terminal would have been demolished to build the tower.

Some reports say the tower had 80 floors, others say 108 floors. A photograph of a model of the tower shows at least 100 floors.


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